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Example sentences for "lamplit"

Lexicographically close words:
lampes; lampless; lamplight; lamplighter; lamplighters; lampoon; lampooned; lampooning; lampoons; lamppost
  1. Mavis and Norah were trembling on the lamplit threshold; horses rattled their head-stalls and stamped in the stables; even the bees were frightened in their hives.

  2. He fell asleep directly they got into the lamplit train; and Norah carried him from the station, carried him all the time the horse was being put to and they were getting ready to leave.

  3. It was on the same floor as the other room, with the same marvelous bird's-eye view of the starlit sky and the lamplit town.

  4. A cold prescience of death creeps over the squire as he sits in the lamplit silence.

  5. As she sat looking into the motley lamplit night, she could have 'testified' like any prophetess of old.

  6. Down one of the alleys, which widened as it receded, he could see a part of the lamplit terrace where a sentry silently paced, and beyond that a corner of the town with interlacing street-lights.

  7. And at the same time, looking through the window, Seraphina saw the black rush of the populace begin to invade the lamplit avenue.

  8. In lamplit alcoves deep as flowers when they unfold Soft cushions called to rest and fragrant fumes to love.

  9. And ever I heard her little feet go tap, tap, tap, under the lamplit table.

  10. A thousand winding stairs lead down before us; And one by one in myriads we descend By lamplit flowered walls, long balustrades, Through half-lit halls which reach no end.

  11. And there was one who turned from clamoring streets, And walked in lamplit gardens among black trees, And looked at the windy sky, And thought with terror how stones and roots would freeze And birds in the dead boughs cry .

  12. In one room, minute by minute, the flutist plays The lamplit page of music, the tireless scales.

  13. Down long broad flights of lamplit stairs we flow; Noisy, in scattered waves, crowding and shouting; In broken slow cascades.

  14. Despite his sharp walk, he was still terribly agitated and preoccupied, and the phenomena of the lamplit studio had not yet fully impressed his mind.

  15. He went in the lamplit dimness of Alexandra Grove like a thief; he crept into it.

  16. But mutual explanations and further enquiry elicited the information that more than one man of that audience occupied the same lamplit boat of retrospect misfortune.

  17. Before the door of this house he took a pass-key from his pocket, quietly admitted himself, and disappeared into the lamplit hall.

  18. True to his usual courtesy, he thanked the speaker and complimented him upon his taste in greatcoats; and leaving the man somewhat abashed by these remarks and the manner of their delivery, he hurried forth into the lamplit city.

  19. I have twenty minutes to make a lamplit study and reflections generally--Have rifle ready, some soda water, tobacco, and a new stock of hope and faith in my aim.

  20. Michael and his mother went on their way to the hall, and soon the music of the waltzing filled magically the lamplit entries of the great college, luring them to come back with light hearts, so importunate was the gaiety.

  21. He was sitting near her but a little apart, staring at the lamplit road.

  22. Then let the wild world throng To pomp and power; And let us fill with love and song The lamplit hour.

  23. And you can't fancy how beautiful was the contrast of the great masses of lamplit foliage and the dark sapphire night sky with just one blue star set overhead in the middle of the largest patch.

  24. It was a sad time too, but so gay and so hopeful, and we had such sport with all our low spirits and all our distresses, that it looks like a kind of lamplit fairyland behind me.

  25. Over ten feet of lamplit space, the lovers of yesteryear regarded each other.

  26. As he waited alone in the lamplit nursery, while Margaret and Pauline were dressing, he kissed Pauline in each faded picture stuck in those gay scrap-books of Varese.

  27. It had made her wonder if he had ever been there when the poplars were blackening against the sky, and all was vague suggestion but the lamplit windows of the cottagers, and the ghostly gravestones of their dead.

  28. Alice went slowly down, but at the foot of the stairs, looking out into the cold, blue, lamplit street she paused as if at a sudden recollection, and ran hastily up again.

  29. He shuddered faintly, and looked out again into the small lamplit room.

  30. Our tasks ended, we of the North go forth as freemen into the humming, lamplit city.

  31. For a few moments they stood talking under the lamplit portal, and, though the conversation was quite ordinary, the glow in his big dark eyes was sufficiently revealing.

  32. Behind the creeper that fell in a cascade from the roof, the lamplit portales gleamed in half-circles of gold.

  33. They stood facing each other, with the lamplit table between them, the light shining on both their faces.

  34. At last Briarwood came in sight above the dark clumps of beach and oak, a white portico, shining lamplit windows.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lamplit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.