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There was a microscope designed to work by lamplight, as the worldly vanity of electric light would ill suit an Old Order bacteriologist like Martha Stoltzfoos.— Blind Man's Lantern
The kitchen door opened at the same moment, and a woman's figure appeared in the lamplight--a young girl, slender, bare armed, drying her fingers as she came down the steps to offer a small, weather-roughened hand to Marche My brother will show you to your room," she said.— Blue-Bird Weather
"I thought I might kill you She looked up at them both in the lamplight, as if to reassure herself they were really there alive Talbot laid his six-shooter on the table You frightened me," he returned, jestingly.— A Girl of the Klondike
It flew from his hand, the steel shone in the lamplight--and what happened after she did not know It was as if the axe had fallen at that moment, striking them all three.— The Song of the Blood-Red Flower

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