Use lit in a sentence
Sentences ending with lit
- F. Smith, 'Record of Zoological Lit. [1]
- Finally we stopped flitting and lit. [5]
- I lit. [5]
Short sentences using lit
- Then they all lit pipes. [4]
- Ditmar lit one for himself. [9]
- He lit a cigarette. [11]
Sentences containing lit two or more times
- Yet they lit up her face; lit it with a fell light of their own; lit it with vague fires of hell. [5]
More example sentences with the word lit in them
- Once in a while, as he found a way for them through the crowd, Peter glanced down at her, and something like a smile tugged at the corners of a decidedly masculine mouth, and lit up his eyes. [9]
- While the soldiers were shouting Kutuzov leaned forward in his saddle and bowed his head, and his eye lit up with a mild and apparently ironic gleam. [2]
- I said likely we wouldn't, because I had heard say there warn't but about a dozen houses there, and if they didn't happen to have them lit up, how was we going to know we was passing a town? [5]
- The fifth night we passed St. Louis, and it was like the whole world lit up. [5]
- Away across the water the crags and domes were lit with a ruddy glare, and the firmament above was a reflected hell! [5]
- Half the street was in shadow, the other half brightly lit by the sun. [2]
- And Pierre's soul was dimly but joyfully filled not by the story itself but by its mysterious significance: by the rapturous joy that lit up Karataev's face as he told it, and the mystic significance of that joy. [2]
- So it was warm and snug within, though bleak and raw without; it was light and bright within, though outside it was as dark and dreary as if the world had been lit with Hartford gas. [5]
- But our men waited until the gunners lit their matches in the cannon-ports,--it was no trick for a backwoodsman. [9]
- He drew himself up, a smile of debonair gallantry lit up his face and as soon as the last figure of the ecossaise was ended, he clapped his hands to the musicians and shouted up to their gallery, addressing the first violin: "Semen! [2]
- Those eyes lit up the whole of her thin, sickly face and made it beautiful. [2]
- The fires lit up the sides of the valley and glorified the mountains beyond. [11]
- The dogs drew up the grim cargo to a plateau near the Rock of Red Pigeons, and, gathering sticks, Parpon lit a sweet-smelling fire of cedar. [11]
- So he lit up his lantern, and got his saddle-bags, and we started. [5]
- Then we lit up and had a supper, and the king and the duke fairly laughed their bones loose over the way they'd served them people. [5]
- We crept in under Jim's bed and into the cabin, and pawed around and found the candle and lit it, and stood over Jim awhile, and found him looking hearty and healthy, and then we woke him up gentle and gradual. [5]
- As we crept toward the shore, in the thick darkness, a blinding glory of white electric light burst suddenly from our forecastle, and lit up the water and the warehouses as with a noon-day glare. [5]
- I ordered the torch-baskets to be lit, and Merlin liberated and sent to me. [5]
- Day after day Tinoir, as he watched for the coming fleet, saw the fire lit at sundown, and then put out. [11]
- Comfortably bestowed in this mountain tavern, after they had toasted and eaten their venison and lit their pipes, they drew about the fire. [11]
- From the passage they went into a large, dimly lit room adjoining the count's reception room. [2]
- On this knoll there was a white patch that Rostov could not at all make out: was it a glade in the wood lit up by the moon, or some unmelted snow, or some white houses? [2]
- As usual, in their spare time, they lit bonfires, steamed themselves before them naked; smoked, picked out and baked sprouting rotten potatoes, told and listened to stories of Potemkin's and Suvorov's campaigns, or to legends of Alesha the Sly, or the priest's laborer Mikolka. [2]
- The spies withdrew their eyes from the peep-holes, lit their pipes, and settled themselves for a comfortable smoke and talk. [5]
- A spark from the wood-fire was shot out, and it lit on the slope of the tent. [5]
- He went into the smoking compartment, and sat musing by the window for some time before he lit his cigar, feeling a glow of happiness that was new in his experience. [4]
- The beauty of the scene was but a mechanical impression, to be remembered afterward when thousands of miles away, for the American Correspondent now at last lit his cigar and took up the strain. [11]
- When I arrived, the playhouse was lit with myriad candles,--to be snuffed save the footlights presently,--and the tiers were all brilliant with the costumes of ladies and gentlemen. [9]
- She hurriedly ascended the narrow dimly lit stone staircase, calling to Pierre, who was lagging behind, to follow. [2]
- So me and the king lit out for the camp-meeting. [5]
- If I decline the honor of being with you, believe me..." A shrewd, kindly, yet subtly derisive expression lit up Kutuzov's podgy face. [2]
- When Pierre reached the fire and heard Platon's voice enfeebled by illness, and saw his pathetic face brightly lit up by the blaze, he felt a painful prick at his heart. [2]
- Then we lit the candles, and crawled in on our hands and knees. [5]
- Then she lit the candle tremblingly, watched the flame gather strength, and opened out the will. [11]
- It is said that the pleasure that lit Slade's face when he heard of it was something fearful to contemplate. [5]
- Within, a silvery sunlight lit up the grass of the island running down the middle, and in the beds the softening earth had already been broken by the crocus sheaves. [9]
- But when on Sunday after church the footman announced in the drawing room that Count Rostov had called, the princess showed no confusion, only a slight blush suffused her cheeks and her eyes lit up with a new and radiant light. [2]
- I came as straight down again, lit in the saddle, went instantly up again, came down almost on the high pommel, shot up again, and came down on the horse's neck--all in the space of three or four seconds. [5]
- About midnight the storm quit and the moon come out and lit up the ocean, and we begun to feel comfortable and drowsy; so we stretched out on the lockers and went to sleep, and never woke up again till sun-up. [5]
- When everything was still once more, I crept out of bed, sick and feeble, and lit the gas with a hand that trembled as if it were aged with a hundred years. [5]
- Presently his eyes spread wide open, just as his jaws swung asunder to take in a potato approaching it on a fork; the potato halted, the face lit up redly, and the whole man was on fire with excitement. [5]
- I lit my spirit-lamp, boiled coffee, got pemmican from my bag, and I tried to make him eat. [11]
- Pretty soon a spider went crawling up my shoulder, and I flipped it off and it lit in the candle; and before I could budge it was all shriveled up. [5]
- The sun shone somewhat to the left and behind him and brightly lit up the enormous panorama which, rising like an amphitheater, extended before him in the clear rarefied atmosphere. [2]
- Well, Mary Jane she lit out the back way, I reckon; because nobody see her go. [5]
- There was a sharp yelp, a flirt of the poodle's head, and the beetle fell a couple of yards away, and lit on its back once more. [5]
- All he had seen that day, all the significant and stern expressions on the faces he had seen in passing, were lit up for him by a new light. [2]
- The soldiers, on seeing him, lit wisps of straw and ran after him, shouting, "Vive l'Empereur! [2]
- The Crown Prince sat directly opposite me, lit his own cigarette, and handed the matches. [11]
- It was the same face he had seen before, there was the same general expression of refined, inner, spiritual labor, but now it was quite differently lit up. [2]
- In the long room, brightly lit up by the sun through the large windows, the sick and wounded lay in two rows with their heads to the walls, and leaving a passage in the middle. [2]
- Joseph Alexeevich, having remained silent and thoughtful for a good while, told me his view of the matter, which at once lit up for me my whole past and the future path I should follow. [2]
- Their powers of reasoning, feeling, and observing immediately increased tenfold, and their life, which seemed to have been passed in darkness, was suddenly lit up by a new brightness, full of significance. [2]
- My pipe was ready and would have been lit, if I had not been lost in thinking about how to banish oppression from this land and restore to all its people their stolen rights and manhood without disobliging anybody. [5]
- In a recently published North American Review article, I quoted a lady as saying Mrs. Eddy's portrait could be seen there in a shrine, lit by always-burning lights, and that C.S. [5]
- In the first place, he marked a candle into spaces an inch apart, and lit it and timed it. [5]
- They lit their pipes, put a specimen of the coal on the table, and made it a kind of loadstone of thought and conversation. [5]
- I took my pipe and lit it, and was just sitting down before the fire, when-down went the pipe out of my nerveless fingers, the blood forsook my cheeks, and my placid breathing was cut short with a gasp! [5]
- I lit a pipe and had a good long smoke, and went on watching. [5]
- Meeting the three pairs of eyes fixed on him, his own held them for a moment musingly; then he lit his cigarette, and, half reclining on the bench where he sat, he began to speak, talking into the fire as it were. [11]
- Then she sprang out of bed, and, feeling for the matches, lit a candle on the small table beside her bed, and moved it round searching for what she thought to be a cat. [11]
- When the flame of the sulphur splinters kindled by the tinder burned up, first blue and then red, Shcherbinin lit the tallow candle, from the candlestick of which the cockroaches that had been gnawing it were running away, and looked at the messenger. [2]
- I got out of bed, and I ought to have lit a candle, but I didn't think of it until it was too late. [5]
- And therefore I noticed what Mr. Birrell said--I was so glad to hear him say it--something that was in the nature of these verses here at the top of this: "He lit our life with shafts of sun And vanquished pain. [5]
- Pierre's confusion was not reflected by any confusion on Natasha's part, but only by the pleasure that just perceptibly lit up her whole face. [2]
- The men drew nearer and lit their pipes. [2]
- He murmured Bianca's name and closed his eyes, while a happy smile lit up his worn, thin face. [10]
- I handed him my cigar, which I had just lit, and he put it in his mouth and returned his stump to his pocket! [5]
- In about a minute and a half I was fringed out with an electrical nimbus that flamed around for miles and miles and lit up all space like broad day. [5]
- I lit out mighty quick, I tell you. [5]
- Hastily washing, and meekly putting on her shabbiest dress and an old mantilla, Natasha, shivering in the fresh air, went out into the deserted streets lit by the clear light of dawn. [2]
- They went for me and Jim by the thousand, but not a one of them lit on Tom. [5]
- He lit a match, and there I was, way down south when I ought to have been back up yonder. [5]
- With that he made a spring into the air and lit firm on his feet on the rope. [5]
- The music sounded louder and through the door rows of brightly lit boxes in which ladies sat with bare arms and shoulders, and noisy stalls brilliant with uniforms, glittered before their eyes. [2]
- Every night she looked out to see that her signal fire was lit upon the Nez du Guet, and she never went to bed without taking one last look over the sea, in the restless inveterate hope which at once sustained her and devoured her. [11]
- We brewed and lit up; then he passed a sheet of note-paper to me and said-- "Do you remember that? [5]
- But his face lit up, right away, for she tossed a pansy over the fence a moment before she disappeared. [5]
- His fine eyes lit up with a thoughtful, kindly, and unaccustomed brightness, but he was looking not at his sister but over her head toward the darkness of the open doorway. [2]
- The climbing fire lit up their faces and threw its ruddy glare upon the pillared tree-trunks of their forest temple, and upon the varnished foliage and festooning vines. [5]
- At last I lit the pipe, and no human being can feel meaner and baser than I did then. [5]
- An' then we lit the fuse 'n' clumb out 'n' got off 'bout fifty yards--'n' forgot 'n' left Tom Quartz sound asleep on the gunny sack. [5]
- So then I lit out--for bed, I said, meaning some time or another. [5]
- Then the pilot lit a fire, and drew his rough chair to the door. [11]
- I sat down, lit a cigar, and went over in my mind all that had been said between us; all that had occurred in my cabin after dinner; every minute since we left Colombo was laid bare to its minutest detail. [11]
- This drew them like a magnet, and, as I lit my pipe, their boat scraped the sand, and, getting out, they hauled her up and came towards me. [11]
- Tom got his lantern, lit it in the hogshead, wrapped it closely in the towel, and the two adventurers crept in the gloom toward the tavern. [5]
- We lit the lantern, and judged she would see it. [5]
- The porter lit it again, and I asked if that was all the light the clerk sent. [5]
- His hand wandered into his pocket and his face lit up with a glow of gratitude that was prayer, though he did not know it. [5]
- Dolgorukov was still insisting that the French had retreated and had only lit fires to deceive us. [2]
- The only object in the shrine now, and lit by electrics--and worshiped--is an oil-portrait of the horse-hair chair Mrs. Eddy used to sit in when she was writing Science and Health! [5]
- Those who were in the dimly lit reception room spoke in nervous whispers, and, whenever anyone went into or came from the dying man's room, grew silent and gazed with eyes full of curiosity or expectancy at his door, which creaked slightly when opened. [2]
- Something was boiling in a small cauldron at the edge of the fire and a soldier in a peaked cap and blue overcoat, lit up by the fire, was kneeling beside it stirring its contents with a ramrod. [2]
- We all got in a big room in the hotel, and lit up some candles, and fetched in the new couple. [5]
- If she was ill, a fire should be lit and then put out two hours after sundown. [11]
- Laws bless me, I just took one glimpse, General, and lit out'n the county in three jumps exactly. [5]
- Dolokhov's back in his white shirt, and his curly head, were lit up from both sides. [2]
- X Beaton lit his pipe when he found himself in his room, and sat down before the dull fire in his grate to think. [8]
- But he lit his lamp and transferred the process of his thinking from the canvas to the opening of the syndicate letter which he knew Fulkerson would be coming for in the morning. [8]
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