Put the lamp in the window, Ann Mary," called Mr. Little, and Ann Mary obeyed.
The old woman took up the lamp and stepped out of the pantry with dignity.
Next, she took the cat and the lamp and went into the dark bedroom and locked the door; then she and the cat were as safe as she knew how to make them.
Ann Mary made up her mind that she would not undress herself, and that she would keep the lamp burning all night.
A LAMP TO THE PATH; or, the Bible in the Heart, the Home, and the Market Place.
Mrs. Scott told me he had been there the evening before, when poor Alice thought the room quite dark, and wondered her mother did not bring in a light for the doctor, though a lamp was burning brightly on the table near her.
The doctor passed this lamp before her eyes, holding it quite close to them, but she never winked.
The wind had blown out the lamp on the steps, and the street was in profound darkness.
It was the lamp of a carriage that had been driven into the shed.
He must have seen it in my face when he opened the door, for he took a sidelong step, shading his eyes from the lamp to get a better look, and held out his hand.
Father's reading-lamp shone upon the open Bible when I returned.
Here seven ladies of varying ages, from eighty to eighteen, sat round a table lit by a hanging lamp and did fancy work while they chattered to their guests--and these were some of the bluest blood in France.
As the chaise rolled off the ostler caught sight of a much older face, lit by the travelling lamp within the carriage.
When Newman had gone Dormer lit a lamp and sat down to his translation of Andrewes (having the habit of forcing himself, regardless of his own inclinations, to work at stated hours).
A lamp was already burning in the study, but the fire demanded her attention.
The lamp lit up his comfortable, untidy, prosperous surroundings, and the little bits of feathered stuff from the deep on which he tried to nourish a starved heart.
They sat in silence for some time, and presently they became aware of a grey light displacing the yellow glow from the lamp and the ruddy reflections of the fire.
Grant sat in an arm chair by the stove, where the bracket lamp on the wall could shed its yellow glare upon his paper.
Grant stood in the whim-room, in the dim light of the lamp turned low, and watched the steady breathing of his little guest with as much anxiety as if some dread disease threatened him.
There was a colored cover on the table, and the shaded oil lamp in the centre sent a comfortable glow of light downward and about.
Then he lit a lamp and set it, burning low, in the whim-room, and noted that the boy slept on, all unconcerned.
I could distinguish the poor old man's features, for his triple coffin had become as transparent as the alabasterlamp burning near the ceiling of my chamber.
The little boiler was also filled, and the lamp lighted; and we all waited patiently for the steam to start the little wheel.
By such means they kept a lamp burning from soon after their arrival on the island, until the day of their embarkation for their native country.
He died like a lampwhich ceases to burn for want of aliment.
There was no lamp in the corridor save the moon, but the whole house was bright as I slipped down the great staircase and across the hall to the library.
The dusk was falling, and a lamp had been lit which gave a glimpse into the interior.
I lit a reading-lamp and tried to interest myself in "La Cruelle Enigme.
He flashed hislamp over the walls to find the electrical connection.
A woman who was sitting in a chair near the reading lamp rose quickly and turned her startled gaze to the detective.
He pulled it down and a small lamp glowed, illuminating a tiny lift cage.
A little red lampsuddenly glowed on the marble switchboard.
It was almost dark; in the recess the little reflectored oil lamp had been lighted, and it shone on the Scholarship girl's copper hair and angular shoulders.
The reflection of the yellow-shaded standard-lamp swung again as she did so.
They continued to walk, their mingled shadow on the pavement as they passed each lamp creeping away before them as if the beam of some lighthouse had had the sinister property of obscurity.
The streetlamp outside, shining through the venetian blinds, made long bars of light on the walls and ceiling.
Was it this that reminded her of the night when she had swept out of Mrs. Lovenant-Smith's French window with the yellow-shaded standard lamp mirrored in its pane?
It moved as she turned, and there swung slowly across the pane the reflection of the tall, yellow-shaded standard-lamp in one corner.
But she could not see him very well; a lamp and a plane-tree made all an obscurity of vague shadows and wet reflections.
His follower at once struck one of the noiseless German matches--which are used almost exclusively, in these parts of France--and lighted a lamp which was standing upon the table.
The glaring light of an acetylene lamp was thrown up towards the window.
There was no lamp in the passage, but a faint shine through a skylight lit dimly its farther end.
The lamp had illuminated both parties alike; but now the electric beam dazzled the eyes of the Bulgarians while leaving their assailants dim and indistinct.
Shouting orders and curses, he threw a swift glance at the three intruders, then sprang to the lamp hanging from a bracket on the wall, and dashed it to the floor.
Standing thus above the enemy's line of fire, and in darkness, he was able to see, through the gaps made in the barricade and the door, a faint light filtering through from the lamp in the hall below.
In the left corner the rays of a lamp fell through an open trap-door above, lighting a rough wooden staircase.
His father could but just see its lustre by the light of a dim lamp which hung over their heads in the gloomy passage in which they stood.
The hall was rather dark, but under the lamp a crowd of people; all the servants in the house having gathered together.
Jud, risking a moment's delay, knocked the chimney off the lampbefore he dived.
Standing with the light from the lamp shining upon his face, the others seated, he seemed a man among pygmies.
It hit the lamp on the way and splintered it to small bits, its momentum unimpeded.
It must have been what he saw in her face that made my husband put the lamp back on the table from which the white cloth had not yet been removed, as if the clearing up was too small a matter to consort with the occasion.
When he had finished, I would take the shade off the lampand render scenes for him from my favourite Elizabethan drama; and in the face of his unqualified admiration for me, I could almost act.
I had leaned back out of the circle of our small shaded lamp to make my confession, but Sarah came forward into it the better to show me the condoning tenderness of her smile.
It must have been a good two hours after moonrise before we turned to go in, where the great hall lamp burned with a steady rose-red glow.
But the most I was equal to was a fixed determination to accept anything which would take me nearer Broadway, which, even then, was to the player world all that the lamp is to the moth.
The room had been set in order while we were away at the cemetery; the lamp was lit and there was a red glow on everything from the deep heart of the base burner.
Among other things I bought there was a spirit lamp and a brass teakettle.
I turned back to lower the flame of the acetylene lamp and in the receding flare of it between the shrouded racks I came face to face with Mr. Montague.
The foot of the stair came almost to the end of the counter where they stood, and a trick of the light falling from the hanging lamp threw the upper half of it in shadow.
What leaped upon me as he waved the lamp about to show me how cleverly he had matched the borders, was the surprising, the confounding certainty that after all our shared sorrow and anxiety we hadn't in the least come together.
The exclamation we raised, awoke him; it arrested the attention of the cab driver just turning from the curb, he raised his lamp and sent the rays of it streaming over us.
And then he adds: "A Lady with a Lampshall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic Womanhood.
In blasphemous merriment the King called this woman of his making Our Lady of Sorrow, and in mockery of holy things he kept a silver lamp burning constantly before her, and crowned her with flowers.
It happened one winter night, when the thoughts I have spoken of had grown very bitter in his mind, Thomas guided his steps by the glimmer of the sanctuarylamp to his accustomed place in the choir.
The Ancient Gods Pursuing I will now tell of Hilary and his companions, who came over the snowy passes of the Alps, and carried the lamp of faith into the north; and this was in the days of the ancient gods.
As we reached the end of the new road we saw the man lighting the lamp there; and we watched him going quickly from one post to another, leaving a little flower of fire wherever he stopped.
Diligent by day, he eked out the light of the stars with the lamp of the firefly, or conned his page by the dim shining of the glow-worm along the lines.
The lamp was burning in the corner before the holy image.
I see a clean little room, a lamp in the corner; on the bed a girl of twenty, unconscious.
In my mother’s bedroom hung a lamp with a pink shade, giving a very agreeable light whenever it chose to burn, but more often than not a source of infinite trouble and annoyance.
The last thing I sent her was a little night-lamp in biscuit-china, like a tiny chapel, so delicate and fragile.
He was seen thinking and even reading under the strangest weather conditions: one man saw him under a gas lamp in the street in pouring rain with an open book in his hand.
There is nothing more beautiful than thus to look as it were through the archway of a house; as if the open sky were an interior chamber, and the sun a secret lamp of the place.
After a passage of many years those who saw it remember the moment when the red lamp turned blue as a felt experience.
There was a booth outside, containing cheap books and odd volumes, round which there was always an attentive group; within, a gas-lamp burned night and day.
And so you think an author looks better in a church-yard, when you see him but as a muffled urn under the moonshine, than standing beneath the gas-lamp in a white hat, and with a red tip to his nose.
The lighthouse lamp burning steadily at the south point, and its long reflection in the still waters, was the golden nail.
She straightened the embroidered cloth on the table as Timkins put the tray on it, and lighted the lamp under the kettle, and, taking up the tea-caddy, she measured out a generous amount of its contents.
His great, shaggy head lay beside the lamp on his crossed arms.
By four o'clock it was dark, and thelamp was lighted when Bert came in, bringing an immense load of hay-twists.
