lamplight

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"I put a patch on it last night by lamplight, and when daytime come, I found it was purple.

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  • There in the lamplight was a young and handsome Prince, clothed in beautiful garments, and burning jewels, his dark eyes burning more fiercely than any of them. —  Red As Blood
  • 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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/ˈlæmplaɪt/
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