We spoke never a word till an open common lay before us; then the lamplighter pointing with his wand to a glimmering surface fringed by rank grass, said: "Yon's Wumble Pool.
Once they both sank into the water; the lamplighter waving his wand, and shouting.
The lamplighter with his tall wand alight seemed like some unearthly messenger come to conduct us to goblin realms.
The lamplighter ran his fingers through his red beard.
With faces pressed against streaming window panes, we watched for the blurred progress of the lamplighter down the street, as the one excitement of the day.
We watched the slow progress of the lamplighter along the street.
XXX The Lamplighter My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky.
Already the lamplighter had started on his accustomed round, and with ladder in hand was making his way from one lamp-post to another.
He was so much interested in the process that he sauntered along behind the lamplighter for some time.
The lamplighter passed me with a soft buzz and click of sprocket wheels, and looking back at him idly, I caught the sound of the church-clock at Barnet striking the hour.
And when in the East comes morning, And the broad splendour of the sun, Then, with the tune of little birds Rings on high, the lamplighter Passes by each quiet house, And he puts out the lamps.
Certainly his enemies might be madder than he, if nobody but a lamplighter could see it was not a lamp-post.
The question then raised would not be his sanity, but the sanity of one botanist or one lamplighter or one Eugenist.
Looking at his watch] The lamplighter ought to be here soon.
With arms interlaced they stood gazing down into the street, where the shadow of the old lamplighter glided like a ghost under the row of pale flickering lights.
Across the way the houses were beginning to show lights at the windows, and the old lamplighter was balancing himself unsteadily on his ladder at the corner.
But it gained him no response from the boy, who disappeared from before his eyes without a single backward glance; whereat the little lamplighter cursed querulously in the fear-haunted solitude of the road.
Bill was now comfortably located on his haunches, but evidently still dissatisfied for he continued to back vigorously, drawing the protesting little lamplighter after him.
The little lamplighter had been wishing this, too; indeed, it would for ever remain one of the griefs of his life that he had not done so.
The little lamplighterwas excused, and Colonel Harbison took his: place.
Such personal relations as the little lamplighter had sustained with the handy-man had invariably been of the most friendly and pacific description.
The lamplightertook up his torch which he had put aside in the struggle with Bill and walked to the curb.
The little lamplighter spoke persuasively to Bill, and the lateness of the hour together with the nearness to his own stable, conspired to make that sagacious beast shuffle forward over the stony road at a very respectable rate of speed.
And Marshall seeming to acquiesce in this, the little lamplighter entered the yard and going to the front door rang the bell.
They could hear Shrimplin's agitated voice, and a moment later two men, chance passers-by with whom he had been speaking, shook themselves free of the little lamplighter and entered the room.
I guess you'd call it a natural gift in my case, son," said the little lamplighter modestly.
And then suddenly and painfully conscious of his verbal forwardness, the little lamplighter sank back into the grateful gloom of his corner and was mute.
Mr Welton had been long in the service, and had passed through all the grades; having commenced as a seaman, and risen to be a lamplighter and a mate--the position he then occupied.
This time it was the Lamplighter flashing to and fro as he put the stars out one by one.
She ran fast, fearing the lamplighter would come and go in her absence, and was rejoiced, on her return, to catch a sight of him just going up his ladder.
The lamplighter tried to appease her, but she shut the door in his face.
The organ-grinder was not out of sight when Gerty saw the old lamplighter coming up the street.
Gentlemen,' said thelamplighter in the chair, 'I drink your healths.
The lamplighter set his beacon at the end of the street.
When Williams was at sea, and I was alone, it was quite hopeful when the lamplighter did that.
She saw it was going to be a race between the lamplighter and Jack for the coveted prize, and she could not suppress a little startled "Oh!
The lamplighter was on his ladder lighting the Doctor's lamp.
Unfortunately, however, the lamplighter had heard Marjolaine's words and followed the direction in which she had pointed.
The lamplighter pointing over his shoulder, replied laconically, "Moon!
I told him you--" The lamplighter snatched the pigeon-pie and fled.
But at that moment the lamplighterwas perceptibly gaining on Jack.
As the curtain goes up, a lamplighter is seen descending his ladder from a lamp-post, where he has just lit the lamp at the corner of the house.
The lamplighter was moving along its wooden fence, leaving faint twinkling yellow lights, and there were little gleams from the windows on Bath Street beyond.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lamplighter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
