Acolytes swing them

Usage examples of censers.

Each bore a staff decorated with roses, lilies, and green branches, and many carried censers in the form of a golden arm with incense in the hollow of the hand, to be burnt before the king.

Though it was quite clear to Kristian from the earliest that his father did not believe a godhead to exist, the symbol and the ritual - the motions of the censers, the candles and the exquisite singing - these were all-important.

In fact, one of his minions was going around tending to the censers and candles at the moment.

Younger lords and a few of the ladies carried their own little censers, fastened to their wrists.

In a few places, diligent servants stood beside their masters, swinging the censers to wreathe their betters with the fumes.

Behind him, idiotically, came a group of choirboys in surplices, waving censers and chanting something too faint for the words to be distinguished.

Brass censers, candelabras, arid assorted plants are situated around the room.

The organ was muttering, censers were swinging, candles were glinting on the distant altar and robed priests were filing silently past them.