A lamp that burns oil (as kerosine) for light.
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Examples for "paraffin lamp"
Examples for "paraffin lamp"
1There was no electricity, just a paraffin lamp in the living room.
2She had a penny paraffin lamp which filled the room with smoke.
3The room was a small one, brilliantly lighted by a paraffin lamp.
4He had settled into his bunk and snuffed out the paraffin lamp.
5Self-consciously Balfour stood behind her, blinking in the light of the paraffin lamp.
1The pressure lamp itself gradually dimmed; and then could not be pumped higher.
2The apparatus is of the first catadioptric order, lighted by a first-class pressure lamp.
1The acetylene lamp for camp illumination is an advance over the kerosene lantern.
2Teacher Florence stood at the end of the hall, holding a kerosene lantern.
3A kerosene lantern sat on a rickety table; beside it was a sack of groceries.
4After a few minutes, someone came out of the house with a lighted kerosene lantern.
5We were up in the loft and it was dark, so I lit the kerosene lantern.
1A match flares and lights up the wick of a hurricane lamp.
2The vapors given off by the hurricane lamp were stinging them.
3Natalie, seated within the glow of her hurricane lamp, turned towards the sound.
4The yellow glow from the hurricane lamp made the shadows deep.
5She led the way, carrying the hurricane lamp with her.
1Inside, the eight cubicles held each a woman, a bed, and a hurricane lantern.
2By careful inquiry in the outer Hut he finds an ice-axe, crowbar and hurricane lantern.
3He barely managed to grab the hurricane lantern an instant before it toppled onto its side.
4Immediately above them, where the boats were beached, a man was coming down the slope, carrying a hurricane lantern.
5From a spot visible down-stream but invisible to the men in the boat, he signalled constantly with a hurricane lantern.
1The men knocked over a kerosene lamp, setting fire to the building.
2Whoever was inside had extinguished his kerosene lamp, or maybe wasn't home.
3I found my way to the kerosene lamp and lit the wick.
4Peter, who had recovered from his momentary fear, lighted the kerosene lamp.
5He had also brought a kerosene lamp, which, however, lacked a glass.
6Darkness is broken by the weak mustard glint of a kerosene lamp.
7Fran lit a kerosene lamp and it made a soft yellow glow.
8And LED lights use a fiftieth of the energy of a kerosene lamp.
9There was light in the room now; the kerosene lamp was burning again.
10A table and a kerosene lamp are brought into requisition; also a book.
11She turned up the little kerosene lamp and looked at me.
12I bought a very nice kerosene lamp in the shape of Mount Rushmore.
13The kerosene lamp cast a feeble light that roamed with the ship's rocking.
14She was washing dishes by the light of a kerosene lamp.
15An ordinary kerosene lamp vitiates the atmosphere as much as a half-dozen persons.
16Keeping the letters, Leo picked up the fat-bellied, old-fashioned kerosene lamp.
Translations for kerosene lamp