On the third evening, when he had removed all signs of his work, he lighted two kerosene lamps and two candles, finding the effect, under this illumination, almost too brilliant and beautiful for belief.
Even the principal streets of Constantinople are but indifferently lighted at night, and, save for the feeble glimmer of kerosene lamps in front of stores and coffee-houses, the by-streets are in darkness.
I will go and fetch it myself," I explain; and in ten minutes the fat pasha and his friends are examining the perfect mechanism of an American bicycle by the light of an American kerosene lamp, which has been provided in the meantime.
I inquire of a boy who comes out from one of the orchards carrying a can of kerosene in his hand, suggestive of having just come from a grocery, and so he has.
This went on till Rashîd appeared upon the scene, bringing my india-rubber bath and a kerosene tin full of water.
Sheytân was led down to the spring, where all the population gathered, the bravest throwing water over him with kerosene tins, while he plunged and kicked and roused the mountain echoes with his naughty screaming.
If you ask for a fire, at most hotels, they bring you a copper pan containing ignited charcoal covered with ashes, which does about as much good as a kerosene lamp.
Well, then there's some old circus bills pasted on the inside of the barn door," said Peter, as he squatted in front of the kerosene barrel and began filling a can.
Peter watched through the doorway, and wondered what Sam was up to until he was called back to business by the kerosenewhich was running over the top of the can.
Any doubt on that point would have been dispelled by the smell ofkerosene which soon filled the air of the room.
It now was impossible for me to get up and strike a light, for to do so with kerosene oil all over the floor and its vapor diffused through the room would probably result in setting the house on fire.
He was a witness to the woman being set fire to with the Peruvian flag soaked in kerosene wrapped round her, and of her then being shot.
The southern half of New England was mainly supplied with kerosene from the great Standard refinery at Bayonne, New Jersey.
The use of more stills for making kerosene would automatically produce more by-products of every sort.
Every increase in the output of kerosene produces pari passu an increase of the other commodities.
In the same territory the rate on kerosene oil from Cincinnati at times has been three times as much to interior points as to New Orleans, three times as far.
I laughed in great glee at my curious illusion, as I sat over the newspaper at my camp-table, lighted by the kerosene lamp.
At that moment my servant entered with a lighted kerosene lamp in his hand.
After that you raise the temperature and collect kerosene for your lamps and so forth right on down the line until you have a nice mass of tar left to pave your roads with.
The heavy bolt thudded shut in the door behind him and he winced at the thick fumes of half-burnt kerosene through which the light of the single-wick lamp barely penetrated.
In the half-dark corridor it smelt of kerosene fumes from the guttering little tin lamp, and of the odour of stagnant bad tobacco.
In the corridor the dying kerosene lamp emitted a dim light and smoked as before, and the watery, murky half-light penetrated into the narrow, long box.
A number of small pieces of brimstone are shown, and then wrapped in cotton which has been saturated with a half-and-half mixture of kerosene and gasoline, the surplus oil having been squeezed out so there shall be NO DRIP.
Household supplies had to be laid in wholesale--sacks of sugar and flour, chests of tea, boxes of kerosene and candles.
By him, beside the kerosene lamp, her mother sat, mending her child's stockings and underwear.
As a rule they have given up causing accidents on railroads, exploding boilers, and burstingkerosene lamps.
The emperors, kings and potentates, every one of them, had the divine petroleum poured upon his head, the kerosene of authority.
You mean the five-gallon drums you get yourkerosene in?
A stove, glowing a dull red, stood at one end, and a kerosene lamp hanging from a beam threw a bright light on the faces of the men.
Murphy retired to the port side of the house, lit a kerosene torch he had brought up from the engine room and waved it.
Set up a small kerosene stove I found in the storeroom, and get along nicely.
When they reached his room, Marie lighted the kerosene lamp and, smoothing down her black hair with both hands, said simply: "I stay with you.
X Large kerosene lamps dilated by tin reflectors lit the front of the Steel Spud.
At the loose corners of Jake's mouth flecks of saliva gathered whitely; in the fleering light of the kerosene the shadows on his face were cobalt.
The row of swinging, kerosene lamps cast a thick yellow radiance over the long counters, the variously laden shelves.
The following directions will cure the condition: Mix one-half pint of sweet oil and one-half pint of kerosene oil.
Turpentine and kerosene are inflammable and hence dangerous to use.
It should be remembered that the action of all counter-irritants is physiologically the same, so that no advantage is obtained from the use of dangerous substances like kerosene and turpentine.
As an extra precaution, the disinfected discharges may be mixed with sawdust or kerosene and burned in the trench.
The springs may be cleansed with a stiff brush dipped in kerosene oil.
An incandescent oil-vapor lamp, burning kerosene vapor, replaced the wick lamp in 1912.
The ranch house was lighted from top to bottom, abnormally brilliant, and as the Indian entered the odour of kerosene was strong in his nostrils.
If on earth there ever was a hell, that tiny frontier room with the smoke-blackened ceiling and the singlekerosene lamp sputtering on the wall, was the place.
The lamps had long been out, but the odour of low-test kerosene still hung about the closed living-room where the same four people sat in council.
The kerosene lamp was burning low now and sputtered dismally; but he did not notice, did not hear.
Within the stuffy living-room, hazy now with tobacco smoke, by the uncertain light of a sputtering kerosene lamp Craig had accomplished a sprawling signature and received in return a check on a Chicago bank.
Cal came in, lighted the kerosene lamp, and then came over to the bunks.
Cal shoved the door shut and leaned against it for a moment, panting, before he crossed the room to take a kerosene lantern from a shelf.
The kerosene lamp in its wall bracket flickered as a gust of cold wet wind rattled the windows and penetrated inside.
Instantly the door opened, creaking ominously as it did so, and a man stood in the gap with a wretched old kerosenelamp in his hand.
I can make a better salve any day outa kerosene and lard and turpentine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kerosene" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
