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  • In the moonlight there, the soft glow-fire of the jelly-fishes in the surf like the kerosene-lamp footlights I have seen in the new haole theatre!

    THE BONES OF KAHEKILI 2010

  • Then, alone in her little parlour, she pulled the kerosene-lamp to her and prepared to face the contents.

    The End of a Childhood 2003

  • She was too timid to appear behind the kerosene-lamp footlights, but she could make costumes out of croker sacks if they were the only material available.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • She was too timid to appear behind the kerosene-lamp footlights, but she could make costumes out of croker sacks if they were the only material available.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • She was too timid to appear behind the kerosene-lamp footlights, but she could make costumes out of croker sacks if they were the only material available.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • She was too timid to appear behind the kerosene-lamp footlights, but she could make costumes out of croker sacks if they were the only material available.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • She was too timid to appear behind the kerosene-lamp footlights, but she could make costumes out of croker sacks if they were the only material available.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • Much later, when it bad worked close to the surface, I cut it out with a razor blade, sterilized over a kerosene-lamp flame.

    Pitzer, Daniel L. 1963

  • In his room, by the light of the kerosene-lamp, he took out the envelope and reed what she had written.

    O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Various

  • The storekeeper graciously laid the hospitality of his stool and counter and kerosene-lamp at her feet; in other words, he "cal'ated she was welcome to make herself t 'home."

    Seven Miles to Arden Ruth Sawyer 1925

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