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Meanings of great lamps in English

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Usage of great lamps in English
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Constellations hanging like great lamps in wonderful, wilderness skies would have wearied her quickly.
Winding Paths
2
Groups could be seen under the great lamps in the Corso reading the evening papers.
The Eternal City
3
The two great lamps in the salon are lighted.
Fromont and Risler — Volume 1
4
In the reception-room, where there were no signs of excitement, two great lamps were burning.
The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2)
5
The great lamps of the car flashed brilliantly ahead, revealing the wind-beaten grasses by the wayside.
Diane of the Green Van
6
At sunset they lighted the great lamps and then settled down to an evening of reading.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904
7
And all overhead was like violet velvet, and they hung there like great lamps of radiance.
The Lost Prince
8
Heav'n's great lamps do dive
The Art of Letters
9
There was no light in the coupé-he had seen to that-onlythe great lamps flaring in the road and the moonlight.
Beyond The Rocks: A Love Story
10
The King turned also, and stared out into the dark, where the great lamps that commemorated the battle were already flaming.
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
11
Under the great lamps every crack and crevice of the tunnel walls was in plain sight to the occupants of the car.
Boy Scouts in an Airship; Or, The Warning from the Sky
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