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- noun Plural form of
rushlight .
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Examples
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The room is filled with smoke from the dirty rushlights and the greenwood fire, but he can make out Sir William and three other men.
The Red Queen Philippa Gregory 2010
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“Mrs. Camels,” by which I presently understood he meant Camilla, “she have five pound fur to buy rushlights to put her in spirits when she wake up in the night.”
Great Expectations 2007
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The rushlights and candles standing in brown pots snuffed out with ruthless decision.
Bealtine Geraldine Moorkens Byrne 2007
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The rushlights and candles standing in brown pots snuffed out with ruthless decision.
Archive 2007-01-01 Geraldine Moorkens Byrne 2007
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My cousins gave a tea party and dance, and the “great majority” flocked in, and there was Richard like a star among rushlights!
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A cursory search did not turn up the halls 'store of candles, rushlights, or oil lamps.
Spirit Gate 2006
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On the inside of these he placed two rushlights, and, with a composition of sulphur and saltpetre, made a pretty large fusee, which he fixed between two rows of the teeth.
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Two rushlights were burning in the large and miserable room, and on a coarse ragged bed lay a woman groaning piteously.
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Two rushlights were burning in the large and miserable room, and on a coarse ragged bed lay a woman groaning piteously.
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She could not show the reverse picture: — that she being a star was anxious to dispose of herself after the fashion of poor human rushlights.
The Duke's Children 2004
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