How To Use Kerosene lamp In A Sentence

  • Nowadays she heats her place with a cast-iron stove perched on firebricks in the living room, cooks with propane, and does her beadwork at night by the light of a kerosene lamp while listening to a battery-operated radio.
  • A servant lighted a hanging kerosene lamp.
  • The building had no electricity, and so the dim interior was lit by a kerosene lamp.
  • Conrad smiled, stepping into the swathe of light thrown by the kerosene lamps inside. AMAGANSETT
  • Conrad smiled, stepping into the swathe of light thrown by the kerosene lamps inside. AMAGANSETT
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  • In addition to the cramped quarters, the streets remained unpaved, and because gas lines had not yet been installed, the families used kerosene lamps.
  • Warm light from kerosene lamps gives the impression of comfort, but despite woolen Oriental carpets insulating the hardwood floor and the heavy oaken wall panels, the cabin is unpleasantly chilly. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Channeling Characters
  • The kerosene lamp blew out.
  • As I glanced towards it, I noticed the soft glow of kerosene lamplight through the two front windows.
  • Still, for smokers to light up, there is the small kerosene lamp, its sooty flame guarded by a snipped cigarette packet.
  • She poured herself a second glass of wine and shut down the kerosene lamp, which was attracting moths. FOLLY
  • The leased land was mostly barren, there were only nine golf holes laid out, and the clubhouse was a converted farmhouse lit by kerosene lamps.
  • The rough bare boards of the walls, naked but for one old picture of a horse cut from a magazine, carefully pasted upside down, and probably designed chiefly to cover some defective spot that was admitting too much coldness; the crazy table shaking with every gust and causing a tiny kerosene lamp to flare up and menace the dim religious darkness by depositing even more lamp-black than was its wont on its already negrine globe; the meagre board of dark bread, "oleo," and molasses; the weird minstrelsy of the hurricane -- the whole a harmony of poverty and war. Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers
  • She poured herself a second glass of wine and shut down the kerosene lamp, which was attracting moths. FOLLY
  • On a dilapidated black-and-white television sits an old kerosene lamp which he lights when a blackout plunges him into darkness.
  • We used kerosene lamps and stood in line for hours with buckets to draw water from a public water pipe.
  • Many kinds of illumination methods, such as torch, oil lamp, candle, kerosene lamp, gas lamp, electric light, and so on, have been applied in the human history.
  • Prior to kerosene lamps, most lamps consisted of whale blubber.
  • He, who neither drank nor smoked, who never wasted the weight of his arms in an embrace, nor the touch of his lips a second longer than the most perfunctory of kisses, who was invariably up before cockcrow and asleep ere the kerosene lamp had a tenth emptied itself, and who never thought to die, was dead even more quickly than Brother Hal and Prince Lilolilo. ON THE MAKALOA MAT
  • It was cool and dark there, and on a low table by the bed there was already a kerosene lamp burning dully through its dirty chimney.
  • A stream of water flows onto the figure's head; its shiny white beard reflects the light from the kerosene lamp.

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