lamplit

• “    “Can I go down on you?” he asks her because sitting on the bed Indian-style he can see, even in the lamplit dusk, he can see and smell her glistening.”

  Fictionaut: Hotel Chelsea - Scene 2

• “I thought back to the night before, walking through the absolutely still streets, past the lamplit rooms and flickering televisions in the houses of the seers.”

  The Washington Post: Following the dust tracks: Touring Florida through the eyes of Zora Neale Hurston

• “Cancer virus hunters needed to return to their lamplit virus again, but this time with new questions: What was the viral gene that had unleashed pathological mitosis in cells?”

  Simon & Schuster: The Emperor of All Maladies

• “His primitive lamplit microscope, with which he could barely peer into the interior of cells, had no power to reveal the mechanism of inheritance.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Emperor of All Maladies

• “Even in the lamplit and moonlit dark, Eugene recognised that potato face and shock of straw-coloured hair.”

  Simon & Schuster: Portobello

• “The vessel was a double-decker, its passenger windows lamplit, its beam big enough to withstand ten-foot seas.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Glass Rainbow

• “It would be separated out by strange rituals, or by a festival or lamplit night market, or by people ringing bells inside their houses due to fear of odd supernatural occurrences in the streets.”

  Leap Day Meandering

• “Buncan stepped through the open doorway and peered down the lamplit corridor.”

  Fictionaut: The Lives of Felix Gunderson

• “Because Professor Longhair is on stage whistling, a lamplit Moses laughing with filthy vigor and toddling fingers.”

  Fictionaut: The Crescent Caretaker

• “Two we leave the lamplit strands, with death not given”

  Fictionaut: Upwards, Into the White Eye Rising

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