For perhaps two minutes, or it might have been a little longer, these last two ghostly lanterns swayed and lengthened and contracted with the wild plungings of the little craft.
Let's look for the trail," proposed Foreman Corbett, holding one of the lanterns close to the ground.
The light oflanterns showed that the men of one gang were searching thoroughly all along the top of the wall.
As the chums stepped out from under the trees in full view of the breakwater site they beheld the lanterns of the patrol, like so many fireflies, twinkling and bobbing here and there along the narrow-topped retaining wall.
One foreman was to take men with lanterns and go out carefully over every foot of the seawall.
She could not tell at all how long she had been dancing, but it was all dark, except for the little lanterns and the little lights on the flower-stems, and the stars were all out in the sky.
These and the lanterns did not seem to trouble them at all in dancing, and if Kathleen had seen the lights and had not seen the dancers, she would have thought that they were a swarm of fireflies.
All the men carried lanterns and all the girls had something that looked like long flower-stems, only there were tiny lights on the ends of them, instead of flowers.
My plan is to mass all the greens around the pillars and hang strings of Japanese lanterns between the galleries.
They have certainly made the place attractive," said the President, looking down between the interstices of garlands of Japanese lanternson the scene of whirling dancers below.
The wild whoop of joy that went up at this unexpectedly appropriate statement made the lanterns quiver and the teacups rattle.
Costumes had to be devised, bonfires built along the lake and at intervals on the links, lanterns hung everywhere possible and, lastly, a quick rehearsal.
A few ratlines more, and both he and the Second Mate stopped almost simultaneously, holding their lanterns as high as possible, and peered up into the darkness.
I snatched up one of the lanterns from off the spar, and flashed the light towards it, whereupon there was nothing.
Every time I remembered them, I felt thankful for the lanterns round the maindeck, and I wondered why none had been put in the mizzen rigging.
Down on the main-deck, I could see the loom of the lanterns that had been lashed up to the sherpoles in the fore and main rigging.
I did not feel particularly nervous, as there were now two lanternsin each rigging, and a couple standing upon each of the spare top-masts under the bulwarks.
As we went, the light from the twolanterns shone upon the decks, showing the litter of the t'gallant gear.
The adoption of the multiform system involves the use of lanterns of increased height.
The buoys and lanterns are made in various forms and sizes.
Small self-contained lanterns and lights are in common use for marking the entrances to harbours and in other similar positions where neither high power nor long range is requisite.
Fixed lanterns mounted on hollow steel masts are now being used in many services, and are gradually displacing the older type.
The early light-ships were of small size and carried lanterns of primitive construction and small size suspended from the yard-arms.
Modern lighthouselanterns usually consist of a cast iron or steel pedestal, cylindrical in plan, on which is erected the lantern glazing, surmounted by a domed roof and ventilator (fig.
The star-fire of the Empyrean shall eclipse itself, and illuminate magic-lanterns to amuse grown children?
And lanterns all around, and the windows darkened with pretty warm, dark Japanesey curtains, so you could have the lanterns lighted all the time.
Lanterns and hand-lamps dimly lit up faces that showed strange in the unfamiliar illumination.
And as he came upright and the light of the lanterns fell full upon his face the astonishingly white fairness of it was revealed--a woman's face it might have been, so softly rounded was it in its beardlessness.
From the dark vaulted entrance of the courtyard leapt a gleam of lanterns containing tiny clay lamps in which burned a wick that was nourished by mutton fat.
She drew back with a startled gasp; then stooped to look, and by the faint rays of the lanterns on mainmast and poop-rail she recognized Sir Oliver, and saw that he slept.
We were all afoot upon the instant; more lanterns and soldiers crowded in front of the shed; an officer elbowed his way in.
The card of admission directed me to Buccleuch Place, a little off George Square; and here I found a wet rag of a crowd gathered about a couple of lanterns and a striped awning.
The lights of Princes Street sometimes disappeared, sometimes blinked across at us no brighter than the eyes of cats; and five steps from one of the lanterns on the ramparts it was already groping dark.
And each thing that he thought of he saw--hawthorn blossom like snow on the hedgerows, red rhododendrons as vivid as Chinese lanterns in the gloom of the dark copse, the green moss of the rides, the white paint of the gates.
But then he had a clear vision of the wood at night--lanterns moving in every direction, men's voices, a cordon of men all round the wood.
The everlasting holystoning of wooden decks and the dim lanternshung at intervals from low-hanging beams--they are gone.
The only dim lanterns now are the "battle-lanterns" in use at night war practice; and they are swung to steel bulkheads by electric wires.
But Wang Chih did not tell them his adventures just then; only when darkness fell, and the Feast of Lanterns began, he took part in it with a merry heart.
Thanking the Hare, he rushed through it, and ran toward his own house, arriving in time to take from his wife's hand the taper with which she was about to light the red and yellow lanterns which swung over the door.
Remember it is the Feast of Lanterns to-night, father," she said.
There were strange faces everywhere; and although when evening came the Feast of Lanterns was being held once more, there was no Ho-Seen-Ko carrying her red and yellow fish, or Han Chung with his flaming red ball.
Wang Chih obeyed, and through this window he saw his own dear little village, and his wife, and Han Chung and Ho-Seen-Ko jumping about her as she hung up the coloured lanterns outside the door.
The Spanish frigate lay moored head and stern, with her ports open, and the light from her fighting-lanterns streaming through them.
There they stood, some loading, others firing; fierce-looking fellows enough as the light of the lanterns fell on their countenances.
The lanterns placed on the projecting portions of the walls and the battlements of the great tower made it resemble a catafalque surrounded by funeral lights.
Lanterns were placed near the lakes of blood and heaps of dead bodies, so as plainly to distinguish the work from the workmen.
Iron cranes projected from angles of the houses, on which to hang lanterns at night-fall, in place of street-lamps.
Colored battle lanterns were fixed above the taffrail; watches and broadsides were regulated by the hour-glass.
On the light-ship the lanterns are protected by little houses, built around each mast, until lighted, when they are hoisted to the mast-head.
We passed this night on board of the steamer, first supping luxuriously on deck, by the light of various lanterns fastened to the masts and bulwarks of the ship.
A magical and unique spectacle it certainly is, with the well-known change from the paper lanterns to the flaring lampions.
In the evening there was to be a Fresco, or procession of gondolas on the great canal, with lanterns and music, in honor of Prince Plomplon, who was at Danieli's hotel.
And soon a bark, with lanterns and a placard announcing an association of artists, stopped beneath our balcony, while its occupants, with vigorous lungs, shouted a chorus or two in the Venetian dialect.
Someone at the end of the bridge was shouting and Bob turned his head to see a group of trainmen, lanterns in their hands, making their way out on the long trestle.
The glow from thelanterns of the approaching trainmen now penetrated the blackness and Bob could see Hamsa's face turned toward him.
We bivouacked at Sonamarg, where I set out some years before from the dak bungalow on a winter's night, with lanterns and torches, for a venturesome excursion over the avalanches of the Zoji-la Pass.
Each of them carries two lanterns like beehives; the top of the one in front consists of a horse's head, with a full flowing mane of paper, and at the point of the hinder hangs a paper tail.
Lastly, the lanterns are left standing and a gigantic bird with a long movable tail and a long curved neck stalks solemnly across the court.
In the centre a wick is so fixed, that the lanterns do not catch fire when they are swung round.
A fewlanterns swung from the trees, sheltered from the wind by a couple of shields.
Already the big rectangular lanterns were lighted before the tea-shops; a joyous clamor began to rise from their gardens and open halls.
This hall shone resplendent from the myriad rays of lanterns and of lamps.
Larger and handsomer than the others, they were carpeted with silken fabrics, which hung over and dragged in the water, and lighted-by huge roundlanterns of gauze or painted glass, surrounded by the variegated flutter of countless banners.
He had noticed neither the number oflanterns nor the colors of the banners.
At the corners of the various roofs banners floated and large lozenge-shaped lanterns swung; the ground-floor consisted of a wide gallery open to the street and protected from the sun and wind by a light roof.
On every side people were trimming their houses with pennants, and streamers, and embroidered stuffs covered with Chinese inscriptions in gold on a black or purple ground; lanterns were hung up, and blossoming boughs.
The wind blew into the tent, making the flame flicker in the lanterns as they hung from the central tent-pole.
The big lanterns swelling forward at either side of the entrance had been drawn in and fastened by hooks; a small penthouse sheltered them.
Lights blazed in a score of windows above them, while at four medieval entrances, of curved doorways under sloping green aprons, the suffused glow of iron lanterns seemed like distant signals lost in a fog.
The streets were unearthly stilled and inhuman as they came back to Ali Baba Court, with all the windows black, and only the iron lanterns at the entrances shining their foggy welcome.
Lanterns hung like strings of dull golden moons from tree to tree.
Then they discovered, by the light of the lanterns they carried, that there the water had broken through, and made an entrance to a part of the mountain of which Peter knew nothing.
When the two privates had deposited their lanterns upon a table which seemed to emerge from the gloom under the partial illumination, Carter surveyed his prison with a curiosity previously denied him.
The sinister smile which flickered across his face was made diabolic by the cross rays from the lanterns carried by two peasant soldiers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lanterns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
