I dream of a small firelit room With yellow candles burning straight, And glowing pictures in the gloom, And kindly books that hold me late.
Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin They think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.
The peace of our firelitfaces Be with us through the night.
May the peace of the lapping water The peace of the still starlight, The peace of the firelit forest Be with us through the night.
Now the firelit palmetto roof of the wigwam he knew to be Diane's seemed somehow, to his distorted fancy, redder than the others--the color of blood.
Smoking, Philip stared at the firelit hollow where his lady's fire-tinted tents glimmered spectrally through the trees.
With agonized eyes Diane pushed the letters away and stared at the quiet firelit room, building again within its log walls the tragedy of her father's death.
He lazily pointed the stem of his pipe at a firelit tree.
She sat there in the firelit darkness, too distracted and frightened to light the gas, planning how the news must be told.
In the raw December twilight she tramped muddily into Mrs. Richie's firelit parlor, which was fragrant with hyacinths blossoming on every window- sill.
For the kiss burned on his lips, the blue eyes smiled at him still from out of the firelit gloom, and he knew nothing but hope.
He saw Isobel again as she had last entered the tent, her beautiful hair flowing in a firelit glory about her, her eyes still filled with tender gratitude.
Judith paused for one breathless minute at the library door, pressing both hands against her heart, then she went into the firelit room and made the last and most important of her preparations.
With a reckless laugh, which made this comprehensive challenge to the world still more comprehensive, she followed him into the firelit room.
After a moment he acquiesced in my departure, and Diccon and I quietly left the press of savages and began to cross the firelitturf between them and our lodge.
In a moment the men of the village had rushed from the shadow of the trees into the broad, firelit space before us.
In the plain there was a light, like the firelit window of a house; a little below him some shape like a crouching man seemed to run and slip among the stones, as though suddenly surprised, and seeking to escape.
In the silence that followed, there crept into the firelit room the star-clear notes of a little prelude.
The dimly firelit room swam with the exquisite echo of the melody.
The little living-room of Applegate Farm bloomed once more into firelit warmth.
As we crossed the threshold, we paused as by one impulse and looked back into the firelitwarmth of the room; then I closed the door softly behind us, and we went out into the night.
After a moment he acquiesced, and Diccon and I, quietly and yet with some ostentation, so as to avoid all appearance of stealing away, left the press of savages and began to cross the firelit turf between them and our lodge.
When the door of the firelit room was shut, the gaol was in darkness that might be felt.
I saw again a firelit hut, and a man and a panther who went down together.
Now we behold the embers flee About the firelit hearth; and see Our faces painted as we pass, Like pictures, on the window-glass.
As his ill luck would have it, his horse, affrighted at the firelit pandemonium, was in the act of wheeling to run away.
At first we saw no sign of life in all the firelit space.
Save for the crackle of the fire and the tick of the great clock, there was silence in the firelit room and presently Roger caught something in Doctor Ralph's thoughtful face that made his heart leap wildly.
All about them lay a glittering moonlit country of peaceful, firelit homes and snowy hills--of long quiet roads and shadowy trees and presently Ralph spoke again.
But as Sister Madge knelt before him with firelit shadows dancing in her sweet, dark eyes, Roger dropped the wand and buried his face on her shoulder with a little sob.
She saw a garden and fields, a firelit interior, a little woman smiling and busy and agreeable moving quickly about.
Miriam took the parcel and subsided on to the hearthrug, looking with a new curiosity at Harriett's little, round, firelit face, smiling tightly beneath the rim of her hard felt hat and the bright silk bow beneath her chin.
A groan ran about the firelit circle, intent upon the old wise man’s word.
The sullen faces of the firelit circle brightened.
Above, in thefirelit nursery, father and daughter made friends; for the incredible had happened, and Hector had taken to this poor weakling as he would never have done to the sturdy, healthy romp prayed for by Lucy.
They pointed to the thousand and one evidences of womanly love and forethought: the spotless cleanliness and comfort of the old firelit hall, the gleam of brass and pewter ornaments, the polish on oak and mahogany.
We can imagine the minstrel as he stands in some market-place, or in some firelit hall, touching his harp lightly as he sings the words.
One of the reasons why I have chosen this story out of Bede's History is because it contains the picture of the sparrow flitting through the firelit room.
He saw with distinctness that he was in a firelit cabin, and that an old negro was battling with a door which the wind would not let shut.
In February he began to gather strength, but the latter half of that month found him still a prisoner in a large, high, quiet room, firelit and still.
He stared wildly at him, and then around the firelit room.
The sight that greeted Rupert Mernside's eyes, when, a few minutes later, he came into the firelit room, made a picture that lingered in his mind for the rest of his life.
Father Davy opened his eyes again upon thefirelit room and the pleasant comfort which surrounded him.
The door opened, and a slender figure in an old-fashioned dressing-gown came slowly into the firelit room.
The song over, they sat down in a circle and went through their ritual with the water streaming over their firelit faces.
They were interrogated under a flaring torch by peering ragged black soldiers, and passed through a firelit crowd into the presence of the local commandant to dispute volubly about their right to go further.
They were sturdy men in light coloured garments adorned ostentatiously with weapons, they moved mysteriously about in the firelit darknesses and conversed in undertones with Giorgio.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "firelit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
