How To Use Kerosene lamp In A Sentence
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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.
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A servant lighted a hanging kerosene lamp.
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The building had no electricity, and so the dim interior was lit by a kerosene lamp.
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Conrad smiled, stepping into the swathe of light thrown by the kerosene lamps inside.
AMAGANSETT
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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.
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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.
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The kerosene lamp blew out.
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As I glanced towards it, I noticed the soft glow of kerosene lamplight through the two front windows.
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Still, for smokers to light up, there is the small kerosene lamp, its sooty flame guarded by a snipped cigarette packet.
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She poured herself a second glass of wine and shut down the kerosene lamp, which was attracting moths.
FOLLY
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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.
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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
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She poured herself a second glass of wine and shut down the kerosene lamp, which was attracting moths.
FOLLY
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On a dilapidated black-and-white television sits an old kerosene lamp which he lights when a blackout plunges him into darkness.
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We used kerosene lamps and stood in line for hours with buckets to draw water from a public water pipe.
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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.
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Prior to kerosene lamps, most lamps consisted of whale blubber.
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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
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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.
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A stream of water flows onto the figure's head; its shiny white beard reflects the light from the kerosene lamp.
