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Sentences starting with lamps

Lamps of colored papyrus hung against the walls and threw a strange light on the scene, something like that when the sun's rays strike through colored glass. [10]
Lamps of white and blue and red and green hung like luminous fruit from the branches, or clustered in stars and crescents upon the buildings. [9]

Sentences ending with lamps

As they drove towards the station, his was the image that remained persistently in her mind, bareheaded on the sidewalk in the light of the carriage lamps. [9]
Philostratus silently beckoned to her, and she stepped into the tablinum, which was but dimly lighted by a few lamps. [10]
At half past seven o'clock, the Colonel, in costume, came into the front parlor, and proceeded to light the lamps. [6]
A young maid-servant, running rapidly, came first to open the house and light the lamps. [10]
London is still obscured by gas--gas pretty widely scattered, too, in some of the districts; so widely indeed, that except on moonlight nights it is difficult to find the gas lamps. [5]
I will go now and find the lamps. [10]
A flood of light streamed into the vast space, hitherto but dimly illumined by a few lamps. [10]
Spartacus, come and light a few more lamps. [10]
The innermost and last was dimly lighted by a few lamps. [10]
Then again the deep silence, the skurrying rats, the dim forms stretched every-where on the ground; and on either hand those open booths counterfeiting sepulchres, with counterfeit corpses sleeping motionless in the flicker of the counterfeit death lamps. [5]

Sentences containing lamps two or more times

They are like lamps with half their wicks picked down, and will continue to burn when other lamps have used up all their oil. [6]

More example sentences with the word lamps in them

The rooms blazed with light like a conflagration; the flowers burned like lamps of many-colored flame; the music throbbed into the hearts of the promenaders and tingled through all the muscles of the dancers. [6]
When the procession, with its thousand lamps and torches, paused before the hovel, which was almost invisible in the dusk, and one citizen said to another: "Here comes the sacred heart! [10]
In the roof were two oil lamps which gave a light strong enough to read by; each had a green-cloth attachment by which it could be covered when the light should be no longer needed. [5]
Before the lamps were lighted along the Rue de Rivoli and in the great square of the Revolution, the garden was left to the silence of its statues and its thousand memories. [4]
A noble peace was upon it, and the eyes were like lamps of dusky fire, as though they held all the strength of the nerveless body. [11]
The entire floor was strewed with rose-leaves, and the room lighted by many lamps which were hung against the smooth, white, stucco walls. [10]
In Lennestrasse it was still she who waked me, prepared us to go to school, took us to walk, and--how could I ever forget it?--gathered us around her "when the lamps were lighted," to read aloud or tell us some story. [10]
The north wind was now blowing so violently from the sea that it was difficult to keep the torches and lamps lighted. [10]
When the dessert was finally eaten, and after sunset, in the brilliant light of the lamps and candles, greater attention was paid to the mixing vessels, all remained silent to listen to his fervid speech. [10]
Numerous lamps of various and singular shapes, filled with Kiki oil, hung against the walls. [10]
The dust kicked up by the crowd dimmed the few lamps and torches which had not by this time burned out or been extinguished, and an oppressive atmosphere of balsamic resin and spices met the brother and sister on the very threshold. [10]
Three lamps fastened to stands abundantly lighted this work-room, but chiefly a figure standing on a high trestle, which Polykarp's fingers were industriously moulding. [10]
But, dear me, there were no lamps in those days, and it was a dark night. [5]
Three lamps on the writing-table threw a bright light on the old man and his surroundings, while the physician, who had thrown himself on a couch in a corner of the large room, remained in the dark. [10]
The light in the west was gone as we were pulled into Far Harbor, and the lamps of the little town twinkled brighter than I had ever seen them before. [9]
The lamps of the station were being lighted five minutes before the express arrived, and as the lights flared up, Orlando entered the waiting-room of the station, with a lady on his arm, and presently showed at the platform doorway, smiling and cheerful. [11]
Austen had lighted the side lamps of the runabout, revealing the shining pools on the road as they drove along--for the first few minutes in silence. [9]
When Paaker entered the room he found it lighted with lamps, and a large dog sprang joyfully to meet him. [10]
He could see the place now: the lonely, wooden houses, the ramshackle saloon, the ugly, yellow gleam from the street lamps in a line along the glistening pavement; beside him, a towering hill of granite with a real estate sign, "This lot for sale. [9]
Deep silence pervaded the lofty hall hung with bright-hued carpets, and softly lighted by three lamps with rose-colored globes. [10]
She now entered the large hall which was dimly lighted by the lamps behind the sculptor's screen, and by several tapers, now burnt down low. [10]
I hastily placed the lamps, took the clay in my hand, and feature by feature I brought forth with bitter joy the image that is deeply graven in my heart, believing that thus I might be released from the spell. [10]
The nimbus round the head was a crown of lamps, and large lanterns shone both at the bows and stern of the vessel. [10]
I could see the gleam of the lamps on their bayonets and hear their soft tread. [4]
There again was the angled, low-celled room of the country tavern, reeking with food and lamps and perspiration; for a central figure the man of surpassing homeliness,--coatless, tieless, and vestless,--telling a story in the vernacular. [9]
On this day, the "Angulus," as the beautiful taproom was called, was but thinly occupied, for the sun had just set, though the lamps were already lighted. [10]
The numerous lamps that hang before it are of gold and silver, and cost great sums. [5]
Oh, these insufferable streets, shops, bakers' signboards, street lamps, and sleighs! [2]
Above all this splendor hung a thousand lamps, shaped like lilies and tulips, and in the entrance hall stood a huge basket of roses to be strewn before the king when he should arrive. [10]
Over it hang some fifty gold and silver lamps, which are kept always burning, and the place is otherwise scandalized by trumpery, gewgaws, and tawdry ornamentation. [5]
Some electric lamps shining through the trees made high lights on the crests of the rapids, while the others near were in shadow and dark. [4]
One might almost say that lamps have been squandered there. [5]
In her snug room, with lamps burning before the icon stand, a young lad with a long nose and long hair, wearing a monk's cassock, sat on the sofa beside her, behind a samovar. [2]
The lamps are right, are they? [12]
He walked as rapidly as his legs would carry him, for they were a trifle short for his body; and in due time, as the lamps were flickering, he arrived near Colonel Carvel's large double residence, on Tenth and Locust streets. [9]
Every temple and palace was transformed into a giant candelabrum, and the rows of lamps on the quay stretched like tendrils of light from the dazzlingly illuminated marble Temple of Poseidon to the palace at Lochias, steeped in radiance. [10]
Meanwhile the gusts of wind which accompanied the outbreak of the storm extinguished the lamps and pitch-pans. [10]
The huge dome of the Serapeum on the Rhakotis, covered with lamps, towered above the flat roofs of the city like the starry firmament of a smaller world which had descended to earth. [10]
The clear surface of the perfumed water mirrored statues of nymphs fleeing from the pursuit of satyrs, and reflected the shimmering light of numbers of lamps suspended from the ceiling. [10]
Here, too, most of the lamps were out, and the upper end of the room was already dark. [10]
In festal illuminations of the harbor pitch cressets on the roof, and long rows of lamps that accumulated architectonic features of the noble structure, were always kindled; but inside it, no blaze so brilliant had ever lighted it within the memory of man. [10]
Darkness was gathering now, and she could see the glimmer of the light of lamps through the windows, and as the doors opened and shut. [11]
The lamps were not yet burned out, and, as he looked into her face with surprise, his also brightened, and jumping up quickly he exclaimed: "All's well; we have you back again, and you have succeeded! [10]
His business was not with these stiff-jointed, slow-witted graziers, but with the supple, dangerous, far-seeing men who sit scheming by the gas-light in the great cities, after all the lamps and candles are out from the Merrimac to the Housatonic. [6]
Between the curving line of hotels and the lake is a broad avenue with lamps and a double rank of low shade trees. [5]
The lamps were lighted, and she was reminded of some visits she must make. [4]
It was brilliantly lighted with tapers, torches, and lamps, and the large houses behind the colonnades were gaudy with rich hangings; only the handsomest and stateliest of them all had no kind of decoration. [10]
The lamps were lighted in the sitting-room, Uncle Tom unfolded his gardening periodical, and Aunt Mary her embroidery. [9]
The rooms were lighted by oil lamps and candles, while the servants burned tallow-dips. [10]
Rows of colored lamps were set thickly along the shore, and disposed everywhere among the rocks on which the Crossman House stands; lights glistened from all the islands, from a thousand row-boats, and in all the windows. [4]
Evening came, the lamps were lighted, but I dared not go home; for only one person had thrown a copper into my lap, and I needed more to buy a bit of bread and a few coals. [10]
Torches, pitch-pans and lamps made the square of St. Mark's as bright as day, and the maskers crowded upon its smooth pavement as if it were the floor of an immense ball-room. [10]
All kinds of lamps had been put in requisition, and even colored wax-candles figured on the mantel-pieces. [6]
In this room it was almost dark; only two tiny lamps were burning before the icons and there was a pleasant scent of flowers and burnt pastilles. [2]
He ushered me into a little parlour lighted by two lamps, that bore every evidence of having been recently vacated. [9]
While she sat in the carriage beside her father, pensively watching the lights of the street lamps flickering on the frozen window, she felt still sadder and more in love, and forgot where she was going and with whom. [2]
We burn oil in lamps, and grease door-hinges with it, when they creak, but the Italians use it to fry chickens and fish. [10]
Suddenly, and as if stricken by terror, she stopped her whirl, and at the same instant the lamps went out and the only light was from the stars and the twinkling coals under the cauldrons. [10]
Then a solemn hymn was chanted as the curtain was raised; and while the assembled multitude watched it rise in reverent silence, the temple-servants lighted the lamps that illuminated the sanctuary from every cornice and pillar. [10]
After breakfast, when Honora sat down to write to Aunt Mary, she described the suite of rooms in which they lived,--the brass beds, the electric night lamps, the mahogany French furniture, the heavy carpets, and even the white-tiled bathroom. [9]
Pontius meanwhile sought his chief foreman to ask him whether he had delivered his orders to Keraunus, the palace-steward, to come to him, and to put the cressets and lamps commonly used for the external illuminations, at the service of his workmen. [10]
Any temple-servant, hidden here behind the altar, can now light or extinguish the lamps without the illusion being detected by the sharpest. [10]
As Melissa dropped her veil the splendor of the scene, lighted up by numberless tapers and lamps, forced itself on her attention. [10]
Before swinging the heavy standard aloft, he freed it from the lamps, which struck the floor with a clanging noise. [10]
He had helped hang the banners and lamps tinder the lindens, and when the storm arose he assisted in removing the best pieces. [10]
Children and promenaders had sat only yesterday on those benches and, the night before that, oil lamps or gas flames had burned on those lamp-posts. [10]
As the room had remained unused for months, bats had made nests there, and now that it was lighted, dazzled by the glare of the lamps and candles, they darted to and fro above the heads of the assembly. [10]
Now I will go to provide you with lamps and lights. [10]
It was after four o'clock, the day was fading, the street lamps were beginning to cast sickly streaks of jade-coloured light across the slush of the pavements. [9]
His old, querulous eyes were like lamps of safety; his smile had now none of that cynicism with which he had aroused and chastened the world. [11]
The curtains were drawn, a fire was crackling on the hearth, the lamps were lighted, and as I dropped into a chair this living-room of ours seemed to take on the air of a refuge from the vague, threatening sinister things of the world without. [9]
He found the door of the work-room open, and, himself unseen and unheard, he was witness to his wife's vehement speech, and to the lad's justification, while Polykarp's work stood in the full light of the lamps, exactly in front of him. [10]
There were endless devices of colored lamps and lanterns, figures of crosses, crowns, the Seal of Solomon, and the most strange effects produced on foliage and in the water by red and green and purple fires. [4]
The lamps were covered, but there was light enough for us to note his look of surprise. [5]
A few stools, couches and small tables, all of cool-looking metal, formed the sole furniture of this lofty apartment which was brilliantly lighted by numerous lamps. [10]
It was a cosy place, with its comfortable chairs, its cheerful lamps, and its friendly open fire of seasoned olive-wood. [5]
The halls and corridors which she now went through, and which she had never before seen, were meagrely lighted with lamps and torches, and all that met her eye filled her with reverent awe while it excited her imagination. [10]
This was not considered an uncommon performance, as he had often entered saloons and commenced firing at the lamps, causing a wild stampede. [5]
The houses were closed: little lamps burned in front of many--a sign that here death had entered. [5]
Now, a tall church spire appeared in view, which presently became a tree, a barn, a shadow on the ground, thrown on it by their own bright lamps. [12]
Here all was, by this time, dark and still; only a few lamps lighted the pillared space and the flare of a torch fell upon the benches placed there for the accommodation of priests, laymen and supplicants generally. [10]
The old tree by the gate--an English linden--illuminated by the street lamps and the moon, had a mysterious appearance, and the tourists were not surprised to learn that it has a romantic history. [4]
Two lamps were burning at the side of the door leading into the little open cella, and at the back of the consecrated place the statue of the winged goddess was visible in the light of a small altar fire. [10]
A coal fire burned in the grate, the red-shaded lamps gave a subdued but cheerful light; some impulse led me to cross over to the windows and draw aside the heavy hangings. [9]
Then lamps were brought in, large ones, and as many as I wished for. [10]
When the party broke up, the street lamps were beginning to twinkle here and there, and Jack discovered to his surprise that the Twiss business would have to go over to another day. [4]
Now they are bringing in the fine lamps and they have been sitting and talking at that table ever since breakfast. [10]
Two lamps were borne in front of the new-comers, and by their light the warder recognized John, the new Bishop of Memphis, who had often been here before now to console prisoners. [10]
A light air blew in through the open roof and doors, made the lamps flicker, and played with Paula's brown hair as she sat absorbed, as it seemed, in the game. [10]
And such places as the Thousand Islands Park, Wellesley and Wesley parks, and so on, twinkling with lamps and rosy with pyrotechnics, like sections of the sky dropped upon the earth, create in the mind of the steamer pilgrim an indescribable earthly and heavenly excitement. [4]
Bright and glimmering as the stars above their heads, lonely and motionless as they, it seemed to claim some kindred with the eternal lamps of Heaven, and to burn in fellowship with them. [12]
Not that his appearance was shocking, although the well-clad, athletic figure was growing a trifle heavy, and the light from the side lamps of the car revealed dissipation in a still handsome face. [9]
The bands played, and so did the fountains; the moon and the gas lamps lit up the scene, and altogether it was a brilliant and an animated picture. [5]
To the right and left of this gate stood a tall obelisk, and on each of these, men were lighting lamps which had been attached to the sides and placed on the top, on the previous day. [10]
The wax candles and lamps were already lighted when Queen Mary prepared to bring her imperial brother to the surprise which she had planned, and whose influence she eagerly anticipated. [10]
Every temple, house and but was ornamented with lamps according to the means of its possessors. [10]
The lamps were already lighted in the hall, and the rays from the central one fell upon Herr Casper's colourless face, which wore an expression of despair. [10]
They had brought along the costly globe lamps from their drawing-rooms, and the lace and silken curtains from the same places, I suppose. [5]
It was hung all round with lamps, and hence its name. [6]
When it rises again night has come, the lamps are lighted and the window curtains drawn. [9]

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