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Examples
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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!
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Then, alone in her little parlour, she pulled the kerosene-lamp to her and prepared to face the contents.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In his room, by the light of the kerosene-lamp, he took out the envelope and reed what she had written.
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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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