13 Metaphors for lamps

into a tunnel, and then into Sandling Junction, which was now embedded and darkits lamps were all alightin a great thicket of rhododendron that had crept out of some adjacent gardens and grown enormously up the valley.

The acetylene lamp for camp illumination is an advance over the kerosene lantern.

This lamp was the signal for the major to approach, and with beating hearts the females bent forward from the windows, secure of not being seen in the night, which had now fairly closed on the valley, to listen to his approaching footsteps beneath.

The Archangel Michael then went to receive him; saying, that the two lamps which had saved him, were the fasts which he had observed on Wednesdays and Fridays.

Towards eveningit was an hour after sunset and the street-lamps were just being lightedhe must have thought that he had at last got rid of me; for, after looking carefully behind him, he suddenly started to walk much faster and with an amount of determination which he had lacked hitherto.

But I think it must not be implied, from what any one has said in favor of the electric light as a means of lighting our dwellings, that gas is unsuitable for the purpose, or that the glow lamp is a perfect substitute for gas, or that there is a very large difference throughout the year on the points of health, convenience, or comfort, or that the balance in favor rests with electric light upon all or any of these points.

The fact is, the glow lamp is only one more means (not without certain disadvantages) of producing light added to those which already exist, and of which the public have the choice.

" The lamp was an added torment.

And Baxter's old lamp with its smoky tin reflector, is not that the veritable torch of our liberties?

He sat at one end of the table with his papers, and she took the place opposite to him, the lamp being a little on one side, so that they could see each other.

The street-lamps were neither many nor brightbut from the glazed gallery of the restaurant, a broad, cheerful illumination streamed upon the passers-by.

The parish oil lamps were like light-houses on the ocean; guides, not lights; the gas has become a perpetual full moon; and it may assuredly be pronounced one of the most splendid and valuable applications of chemistry.

CHAPTER XIV The Lamps and the King's Daughter-in-Law Once upon a time there was a town called Atpat.

13 Metaphors for  lamps