How To Use Lamplight In A Sentence
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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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Reaching over to put the light on, befuddled and stupid, I saw the dog, trembling and sheepish, dark eyes anxious in the lamplight.
Diary of a separation
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These days they want to know about the history of people who were not kings or queens, but weavers and miners, felling hands and lamplighters.
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In front of each chair lay a jeweled, ruby-encrusted goblet of wine, whose inlaid gemstones shone in the bright lamplight.
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Anyhow, the choice of interior decoration color, lamplight is by the person aesthetic cause, terminative also at the person aesthetic.
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The huge horse was in the third stall on the left, a brass nameplate on the half-door shining in the lamplight.
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I pictured him smoking, playing Leonard Cohen, and writing by lamplight, drifting and dreaming late into the night.
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Soft golden lamplight illuminated the windows as the travellers eventually reached their destination.
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Arrangements for each fine point as from the projection of lamplight to the touch of bedcover signify your sleep quality is highly valued.
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To the cold and weary citizens out on the streets back then, the lamplighter is a very comforting sight.
Convergence and Deregulation in the Energy Marketplace
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This was what happened; Theodora came down the steps, her stately figure outlined in its darkness against the gush of lamplight from the porch.
Chronicles of Avonlea
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Anyhow, the choice of interior decoration color, lamplight is by the person aesthetic cause, terminative also at the person aesthetic.
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Jayne and I decided to share a large slice of banoffee pie, which was gorgeous, while Marjorie, a connoisseur of trifles, gave the Lamplight sherry trifle nine marks out of ten.
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The coins glittered in the lamplight, part of that cost, but not the greatest to him.
The Monstrumologist
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Did you not see it? he bellowed at Laurie, our lamplighter.
Exit the Actress
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She could see the warm glow of lamplight coming from under her door.
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Whether viewed by the daylight, a little subdued, or lamplight, the scenes depicted with telling effect the different characters so vividly described by Mrs Stowe.
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Her face looked pale in the lamplight.
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The lamplight cast gentle shadows, and on the carpeted floor Ben's feet made no sound at all.
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We see shoeblacks and lamplighters with their tools and utensils; and milkmaids, fruit sellers and prostitutes touting their wares.
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The inhabitants had to wear greatcoats and cloaks inside when it was cold, and Carrington had to draw his plans by lamplight at night, after being out all day with his instruments.
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We used to bottle surplus plums, and pears, dry apple rings on baking trays in a very slow oven, and layer runner beans in salt, putting them all up on the shelf to gleam in the autumn and winter lamplight.
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The poignant opening is a description of him as a child, fascinated by moving light, watching the lamplighter come up the street lighting the lamps.
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The bell on the door tinkled merrily in the dull glow of lamplight.
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She dropped the pan of feed to the ground and fairly flew to meet them, and then before Kit could even detach herself from these clinging arms, the big front door swung open, and there in the lamplight was the Mother Bird and Helen.
Kit of Greenacre Farm
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The greenish-yellow hair looked dull gold by lamplight; her eyes gleamed blackly from their blue crystallized lids (the bath of indigo being a stage device known to all devotees of the art), and her dancing, which immediately commenced to her own castanets and a subdued "pizzicato" from the two violins, was original and graceful, and free from any taint of vulgarity.
Ringfield A Novel
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Emily's dark eyes are huge in the faded lamplight, and her gaze is one of undisguised longing, something I never, ever thought I would see directed at me.
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She had russet colored hair that turned a dull red in the lamplight.
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We see shoeblacks and lamplighters with their tools and utensils; and milkmaids, fruit sellers and prostitutes touting their wares.
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The giant Schonbrunn Palace was created for the empress Maria Theresa and her 16 children, and it looked pretty magical by lamplight.
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And the art, hung here and there and lit in one case by lamplight, was a hodgepodge of styles.
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Doreen picked up her knitting once more, the needles flashing in the lamplight and clicking rhythmically.
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Elevator operators, typesetters, and airplane navigators have followed milkmaids and lamplighters into oblivion.
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Harrell's shadow, he had no doubt, had wiped fleetingly across lamplight in that upstairs room.
THE LAST RAVEN
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Sometimes to read or write by lamplight is quite impossible.
Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago
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He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight.
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The silent children followed close at her heels in a tight little huddle, as if the lamplight were a warm thing that could shield them from the coldness of the shadows.
The Dollmaker
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Her eyelids appear swollen, a dull gold in the lamplight.
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The cold streets were lit only by what lamplight leaked from the windows.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Resemble the lamplight with general and downy sunshine, the antependium with natural qualitative hemp, the cany chair of reservation of of primitive simplicity.
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And then off he went down the street, walking from pool to pool of soft lamplight and through the intervening lakes of shadow, round the corner and off out of sight.
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Her face was pale and tragic in the lamplight; her bright eyes shone like amber held up to the light.
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He would often spend a whole day settling and resettling in their cases the various stones that he had collected, such as the olive-green chrysoberyl that turns red by lamplight, the cymophane with its wire-like line of silver, the pistachio-colored peridot, rose-pink and wine-yellow topazes, carbuncles of fiery scarlet with tremulous four-rayed stars, flame - red cinnamon-stones, orange and violet spinels, and amethysts with their alternate layers of ruby and sapphire.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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But never did bewildering _ignisfatuus_ retire more persistently from the pursuit of unwary traveller than did that Light-house from the occupants of that creaking "shay"; and it was not till total darkness had settled upon the earth that they reached its door, and discovered, by the lamplight streaming out, that Caleb stood in the entrance, awaiting their arrival.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859
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Wordsworth, rather, hurries us onward in anapestic strides, imaging successive auditors (the apprentice, the newsman, the lamplighter, et al.), and ending with "pursue!
Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music
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Little imagine, the lamplight of multicoloured divides pair of person eyesight the harm is very great outside, still can disturb brain center advanced nerval function.
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I can't count the times we sat by the fire in our cottage during foul weather, music playing on the radio and reading by lamplight.
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Her face was pale and tragic in the lamplight; her bright eyes shone like amber held up to the light.
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The lamplighter was usually a tall man, a character, and his position was considered an important one.
Fifth Avenue
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Dorean picked up her knitting once more, the needles flashing in the lamplight and clicking rhythmically.
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Wordsworth, rather, hurries us onward in anapestic strides, imaging successive auditors (the apprentice, the newsman, the lamplighter, et al.), and ending with "pursue!
Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music
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The Five howled mockery and derision, the cards danced and beckoned luringly in the mellow lamplight, the Judge pulled his coat-tail, the Major Premise tugged.
The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On
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Pleasant, thinks I. 'Here, boy, let's have a look at this precious little account -- hum! ha! hunting-saddle, gag-bit for Lamplighter, head-piece and reins to ditto, ~317~~" racing-saddle for chestnut mare, 'etc., etc., etc.; a horrid affair as long as my arm -- total £96 18s. 2d.
Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil
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The lamplight was dim, and it shone rather unsteadily, casting only a weak glow over the ground, but it would have to do.
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Working by lamplight, Johnny finishes the mold, though he is not fully satisfied with it.
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Rossamund Bookchild is finally becoming a lamplighter.
Lamplighter by D. M. Cornish: Book summary
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Andrew Miller was still up, reading a book in the parlor by lamplight.
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The tent contained a collection of herbs and strange concoctions which glistened in the lamplight, lending a sinister glow to the place.
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We watch the lamplighter move along the streets lighting the gas lamps and soon Astoria twinkles like the sky above.
The Trouble With May Amelia
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The French doors opening onto the meadow were hanging open, with lamplight spilling out across the verandah flagstones.
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Medals hung from above the breast pocket, glittering coldly in the lamplight.
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She was gone, melted into the dark shadows of the night outside the dim circle of lamplight.
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He would often spend a whole day settling and resettling in their cases the various stones that be had collected, such as the olive-green chrysoberyl that turns red by lamplight, the cymophane with its wirelike line of silver, the pistachio-coloured peridot, rose-pink and wine-yellow topazes, carbuncles of fiery scarlet with tremulous, four-rayed stars, flame-red cinnamon-stones, orange and violet spinels, and amethysts with their alternate layers of ruby and sapphire.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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She studied the pale skin of his face in the dim lamplight.
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The vine twisted and writhed in the ring of lamplight, like a dying snake.
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The lamplight was dim, and it shone rather unsteadily, casting only a weak glow over the ground, but it would have to do.
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A lamplighter was up a ladder, replacing the candle in one of the hanging lanterns in the square.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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So the illume of bedroom lamplight should consider to do design illume by different functional requirement.
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In the golden lamplight, knots of heavily armed guardsmen were talking in low voices.
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The kitchen was dark, but lamplight streamed down from upstairs, and Marie and Sam stepped quietly up the stone steps.
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The soft lamplight made her blonde hair seem to glimmer.
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Her hands were interlocked on her lap, and she just sat, thinking, by lamplight.
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The door opened, admitting a sliver of lamplight, a slight silhouette dark against it.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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And the art, hung here and there and lit in one case by lamplight, was a hodgepodge of styles.
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A bit before the sun broke upon the horizon, the lamplighter put out the lamps that lined the streets.
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The giant Schonbrunn Palace was created for the empress Maria Theresa and her 16 children, and it looked pretty magical by lamplight.
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... inked by monks in lamplight, drawn in brilliant colours on vellum, pale but rich in tone, not bleached pure white but yellowed, brown, the colour of skin, of earth, of wood, old bone, of things that were all once alive.
Images Of Vellum And Ink
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I gazed dreamily at Hounslow, despite fresh tales of Dick Turpin; and all the successive "jogs" by which Nurse called my incapable attention to the lamplighters, the shops, the bottles in the chemists 'windows, and Hyde Park, failed to rouse me to any intelligent appreciation of the great city, now that I had reached it.
A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son
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At dusk the lamplighter would go along on his bicycle carrying matches and a ladder over his shoulder.
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The Louchoux girl sprang to the door, and as she wrenched it open the yellow lamplight threw into bold relief the huge figure of a man, who, bearing a blanket-wrapped form in his arms, staggered into the room, and, without a word deposited his burden upon the floor.
The Gun-Brand
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The respect is designed in lamplight, indirect lighting combining direct lighting is given priority to, in order to emphasize the lobby of the space is concise, modern and metrical sense.
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That child sitting cross-legged on the floor of that shop, in the heart of the forest, reading all alone in the lamplight, is not there by chance.
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - Nobel Lecture
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Leaves migrated across the hospital lawn; moths congregated in the lamplight.
THE HELLBOUND HEART
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A lamplighter moved slowly down the street from them, but it was otherwise empty.
Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon
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She rose, loose and easy in her dark Rover clothing, decorative bright scarves and sashes wrapped about her waist and shoulders, the ends trailing down in silken streamers, her long red hair shim - mering in the lamplight.
Ilse Witch
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We'd stumbled into another chamber, smaller than the first, and dingier: lit by oily lamplight rather than the clean, cold moon.
NIGHT SISTERS
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There she beheld another countenance, of a man well stricken in years, a pale, thin, scholar-like visage, with eyes dim and bleared by the lamplight that had served them to pore over many ponderous books.
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But taking a photo in lamplight made the colors go all horrible; _; I fixed it up as well as I could in photoshop (the original was MUCH darker) but it still irks me.
October « 2006 « Were rabbits
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Dusk falls quickly in the backwaters though, which means dinner by lamplight back on the boat.
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The park is hushed and darkened, welcomingly tranquil; the trees are a dark silent green in the lamplight, in the far car light.
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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Every one of his followers started up at the command, and mingled as they were among their late allies, prepared too for such a surprisal, each had, in an instant, his next neighbour by the collar, while his right hand brandished a broad dagger that glimmered against lamplight and moonshine.
Quentin Durward
