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sconce Noun a bracket fixed to a wall for holding candles or lights [Late Latin absconsa dark lantern]
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With these triumphant expressions, he seized a hammer and dealt a heavy blow at a vice, which in his mind's eye represented the sconce or head of Joseph Willet. A large book lay open upon his night-desk, a wax-light was still burning in its silver sconce. Then the Giant, grinning with rage, strode tower-like towards the stranger (ten times strengthened at every step), and fetched a monstrous blow at him with his pine tree, which Hercules caught upon his club; and being more skilful than Antaeus, he paid him back such a rap upon the sconce, that down tumbled the great lumbering man-mountain, flat upon the ground. |
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