lamps

• “A Scot writing about another Scot where sticking posters on lamps is prefectly normal.”

  Once can be an error, but twice ? Oh Mr Murray what a lack of honesty

• “Three set-in lamps, which come with a 10-year warranty, emit intense heat and light.”

  Hot Off the Range: Speedcook Ovens « Colleen Anderson

• “Just as in other countries, the miracle of the long-burning oil in the temple lamps is commemorated not only with potato latkes, but with a variety of sweet fried foods.”

  Mexican holiday sweets: cookies, candy and more

• “Pendent in front of John Ziegler's face, attached to the same type of hinged, flexible stand as certain student desk lamps, is a Shure-brand broadcast microphone that is sheathed in a gray foam filtration sock to soften popped p's and hissed sibilants.”

  Host

• “There were porcelain lamps in the shape of ginger jars, round and Oriental, and with none of the usual dust on the bulbs, because it was Jocelyn's house.”

  Excerpt: The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler

• “Confronting the table on which are the butter-lamps is a long, low bench covered with red cloth, prepared for the lama dignitaries who are to come to worship the image.”

  With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior

• “She had been built for canvas and oil-lamps, and this new thingumajig that kept her nose snoring at eight knots when normally she was able to boil along at ten, and these unblinking things they called lamps (that neither smoked nor smelled), irked and threatened to ruin her temper.”

  The Ragged Edge

• “Dick's old one, opened them, and shut the end one, which is too cold, and put in lamps, stoves, and stores and comforts of all kinds; in fact partly refurnished.”

  The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton

• “Although it was not a dark evening, the servants commenced bringing in lamps earlier than usual.”

  A Christmas Cake in Four Quarters

• “There was a profusion of evergreens, small tin lamps dripping with oil, and sloping tallow candles shedding grease upon the board.”

  Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country

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