Seven is a mystical number and he determines to seek out his readers and make of them seven golden candlesticks with which to illuminate the world.
It had been a long time since I had seen rich golden candlesticks and handsome chests with velvet draperies.
But you can easily imagine trees not growing fruit; you can imagine them growing golden candlesticks or tigers hanging on by the tail.
They had not taken the golden candlesticks or the old tabernacle in which I discovered, with my groping hand, a shriveled human heart.
The chamber was low but vast, pillared by golden and silver candlesticks doubtless pilfered from palaces and churches overhead.
The golden candlesticks.
Snatch those golden candlesticks, slip the purse off that woman's belt, pick up a stack of coins from a gambling table.
Ranged about it, seven black candles in golden candlesticks sent up oozing spirals of thick green smoke, disturbingly scented.
Let me find the seven purchasers of my seven copies, and they shall be the seven golden candlesticks with which I will illuminate the world.
There was some fourteenth-century glass in the narrow windows, and the altar itself was perfectly arrayed for mass in red and white, with golden candlesticks.