lamp

• Stradella sprang in with the driving wet and only succeeded in shutting the window after several efforts, during which the lamp was almost blown out He stood before her then bare-headed, and the water ran down upon the marble floor from his drenched clothes. —  Stradella
• She would alway stay at holy Mary her image, to see if the lamp were alight; but I--the saints forgive me!--I never cared thereabout. —  The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time
• I heard Jim Dunn's voice and called him and told him where my lamp was and asked him to bring it up. —  Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History
• The very flicker of the lamp was among the last events. —  Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
• I don't believe she has any fire in her room, for she keeps hitching round after the sun all day--and when he bids her good afternoon, she comforts her shoulders with a blanket shawl; then, her lamp is always out long before I go to bed, and nobody who has a good fire, ever wants to go to bed and leave it; they'll find a thousand things to do--a letter to write, or a book to read, or some chestnuts to eat; or, if they haven't anything else to do, they will sit and look at the fire. —  Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends

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