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Then she looked around — at the window, the heavy winter curtains normally tied back through the warmer months fully drawn, then at the bed, bathed in the golden glow thrown by two six-armed candelabra perched on the angled bedside tables, a seven-armed cousin on the tallboy against the corridor wall, and a five-armed one standing on the chest against the opposite wall.

The Perfect Lover Laurens, Stephanie 2003

As you look closer at the trophies chiseled on this famous monument, you find there standing out most conspicuously the seven-armed candlestick carried by the Jewish captives, the _Menorah_, regarded, no doubt, by the proud victor as the most characteristic feature of the destroyed Jewish temple.

The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 Various

The goblets with their sparkling contents, the snow-white linen and the dainty dishes spoke a cheery welcome to the merry guests, and the seven-armed lamp hanging from the ceiling and the silver candlesticks upon the table threw their friendly glow over the scene.

Rabbi and Priest A Story Milton Goldsmith

Jenny lighted the seven-armed candlestick on her writing-table, took a cigarette, and held it to the flame: "Will you smoke?"

Jenny: A Novel 1921

Here we must mention first of all the numerous baptismal fonts of bronze, which are decorated on their outer sheathing with representations in relief and architectural ornament, next the seven-armed candelabra, door-knobs, water-vessels (aquamanile), lecterns, especially the beautiful eagle-lecterns.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

While the servant was answering for the elder, the curtain of the doorway was drawn aside, and the younger Egyptian came in, and walked-or floated, upborne in a white cloud of the gauzy raiment she so loved and lived in-to the centre of the chamber, where the light cast by lamps from the seven-armed brazen stick planted upon the floor was the strongest.

Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ 1901

The Arch of Titus celebrates victories in Judea, and in the reliefs you can see the spoils of war, including an altar and a seven-armed chandelier.

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