Along the street open doorways and windows were already beginning to make yellow panels of lamplight in the thin gloom.
Next day, when light broke, Alfred and Tony uttered cries of despair: by lamplight they had mistaken yellow for white and white for yellow, green for blue and blue for green.
In the flickering lamplight it could be seen that the face usually so ruddy and full was blanched by determination and passion.
He had raised his hand to the knocker when he saw the mistress of the house sitting in the lamplight by the table.
The prizes that were dangled varied between a mite and a fortune; and now, in the murky lamplight of the garret, the pianist saw visions.
Practising, in the feeble lamplight of the attic, she used to wait, through the long evenings, for the postman and news that never came.
Amid rich flowers your rosy lamplight gleams, Amid rich hangings pass your scented hours, And woods and fields are green but in my dreams, And only in my dreams grow meadow-flowers.
How soft the lamplight falls On pictures, books, And pleasant coloured walls And curtains drawn!
Mittyford waiting in awesome fur coat, goggles, and gauntlets, centered in the car-lamplight that loomed in the shivery evening fog.
He couldn't bear to look out through the door, for it framed the vicar's house, with lamplight bodying forth latticed windows, suggesting soft beds and laughter and comfortable books.
The lamplight on the delicately green walls was like that of a regular author's den, he was quite sure.
Something heavy was thrown against the door, and when Susie opened it a roll of roped canvas rolled inside, while the lamplight fell upon the grinning faces of two Bar C cowpunchers.
Her cheeks were flushed, her eyes luminous, and the soft lamplight burnishing her brown hair made the moment one of her best.
Her cousin gave a look at her as she stood in the lamplight in her white dress and black ribbons.
And if he turned his eyes from him for a moment, it was to decipher by the dim lamplight that letter of Kiah's with the heading and the signature that were so familiar.
Often gray dawn looked in upon her, still sitting before her desk, with a sickly, waning lamplight gleaming over her pallid face.
Restlessly she began to pace the floor; the lamplight gleamed on a pale, troubled face.
In the golden glow of lamplight she set small bowls of white and lavender sweet-peas, and mignonette, upon the round table.
The traffic swung past thelamplight shone warm on all the golden faces; but Siegmund had already left the city.
Gran'dad an' me was eat'n' supper by lamplight when there come a knock at the door.
They sat together by the lamplightin the cozy sitting room.
He had added a helmet to the rest of his war gear, and the glint of the lamplight on the brass provoked Joseph to beg of him to unarm and relate his story, that burdens you more than your armour, he said.
There he threw the lamplight about him, mentally reconstructing the scene of two hours before.
But as careful an examination as it was possible to make by lamplight failed to reveal any trace of damage.
Santa seemed to think well of it, too, for he held it to the lamplight and moved it back and forth, watching the shine of the green stone.
The door was closed, but from beneath it shone lamplight in sharp, yellow streaks.
They sat locked together in silence until the room was quite dark, lit only by the vague lamplight which shone in through the fine lace curtains from the street.
Behind him, the lamplight of the Rectory windows seemed for the moment sad and unattainable and gave him the fancy he was drifting away from a friendly shore.
For a little while she held the door ajar so that a thin shaft of lamplight showed his tall shape walking quickly away under the trees.
In the lamplight of the stage the little party read and smoked and practised, exposed to the empty darkness of the big room.
When I think back, I can scarcely see him, I can only see the others, the lamplight on their faces and on their full gesticulating limbs.
In the lamplight the tiny scars on the lobes of her nose did not show, and he rather wished that they did.
Helen, blinking into the lamplight of the hall, bent her head.
Alix came flying to the door, the old lamplight and the odour of wood smoke poured through.
Under the shaded lamplight their faces, dominated by that cold masterly figure at the head of the table, were almost Rembrandtesque.
He laughed, and in the lamplight Robert saw his face, puckered with an impish, malicious merriment.
And then, without so much as a "good night," he limped down the steps and along the street, flitting in and out of the lamplight like a hunted bat.
The rain falling in long, slanting lines through the dingy lamplight seemed to merge them into a mournful kinship.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lamplight" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
