17 examples of night-light in sentences

She has a night-light in her roomI prefer darkness.

" Her voice fell, and the light in her eyes seemed to burn low, like night-light, turned down.

Discreet and well-instructed, Chou Nu turned the night-light down to a glimmer, placed on and under a chair adjacent to the bed a robe of cashmere that wouldn't rustle, and slippers of fine felt with soles of soft leather, in which footfalls must be inaudibleand glided gently from the room.

When Beatrice returned to the room Wonder was sleeping peacefully again, but at the chill hour when watchers blow out the night-lights, and a dreary greyness comes like a fog through the curtains, Antony and Beatrice fell into each other's arms in anguish, for Wonder was dead.

A night-light gave an uncanny shadow-breeding light in the room.

Let me light a night-light?' 'No, thank you; I like the dark.' XVIII Hubert and Mrs. Bentley stood by the chimney-piece in the drawing-room, waiting for the doctor; they had left him with Emily, and stood facing each other absorbed in thought, when the door opened, and the doctor entered.

The candle was extinguished, but a night-light was burning.

There was on this occasion a night-light burning in the chamber; and the child saw, or thought she saw, all these particulars with the most perfect distinctness.

And they had splendid games together, in whispers, when Nana had gone away to her supper and left the night-light burning on the mantelpiece.

He soon caught sight of the thing resting close to his hand, by the night-light, on the green table-cloth.

I inquired cheerfully, and he, staying his claw-like hand in mid-air, made reply "A chromatic in tones of sad colour, with golden accidentalsKashmir night-lights.

For never until now did I understand that we walk always arm in arm with Death, that he squires us at every step, coolly joggles our elbow, touches our shoulder now and then, wakes us at dawn, puts out our night-light, and smooths the sheets we sleep under.

At two o'clock a night-light was still burning in the parsonage, and this was of course a hindrance to the need-fire.

The peasants knocked at the window and earnestly entreated that the night-light might be extinguished.

However, as good luck would have it, just as the morning broke, the night-light went out of itself, and the hopes of the people revived.

But the parson's wife had reason bitterly to repent her folly in refusing to put out that night-light; for not one of her pigs was driven through the need-fire, so they died.

And, so, dim grassy flower and night-lit spark Still move me on and upward for the True; Seeking, through change, growth, death, in new and old, The full in few, the statelier in the less, With patient pain; always remembering this, His hand, who touched the sod with showers of gold, Stippled Orion on the midnight blue.

17 examples of  night-light  in sentences