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Example sentences for "lanthorn"

Lexicographically close words:
lantana; lantern; lanterne; lanterns; lanthanum; lanthorns; lanyard; lanyards; lanzknechts; lap
  1. I shut the door and hung the lanthorn near the cot, having the flint and box in my pocket.

  2. I returned to the cabin and lighted the candle, and carried the lanthorn into the black passage or corridor.

  3. Raking out the fire, I picked up the lanthorn and was about to go, then halted, considering whether I should not stow the frozen provisions away.

  4. I walked straight to the cook-room, and, putting the lanthorn to the Frenchman, perceived that he was still in a heavy sleep, and that he had lain through the night precisely in the attitude in which I had left him.

  5. I hung up the lanthorn and looked into the cot, that was slung athwartships, and spied a couple of rugs, or blankets, which I pulled out, having no fancy to lie under them.

  6. I minded myself of my own simile of the current checked by frost, yet retaining unimpaired the principle of motion; and getting my agitation under some small control, I approached the body on tiptoe and held the lanthorn to its face.

  7. I turned the lanthorn about, and discovered every convenience for dressing food.

  8. I shouldered his mattress and slung a lanthorn in his cabin, and then returned to help him to bed.

  9. I held the lanthorn to the furnace, and observed a crooked chimney rising to the deck and passing through it.

  10. But, O my lord, when thy habit was lost and found didst thou likewise recover the lanthorn which was stolen from thee?

  11. Then tell him all that passed between thee and Ahmad Kamakim and say, 'O Prince of True Believers, order him to be searched and I will bring the lanthorn forth from his bosom.

  12. Then he plastered down the marble slab as it before was, and returning whence he came, went back to his own house, saying, "I will now tackle my drink and set this lanthorn before me and quaff the cup to its light.

  13. And I would by no means have Pinchbeck's dark-lanthorn brought into common use.

  14. You know, my lord, that the possessor of this lanthorn can turn it this way and that, as he pleases.

  15. Twenty people, I doubt not, whom your lordship might consult upon this occasion, would advise you to go without any lanthorn at all.

  16. Now, as she flew along, our Owl she met A Lamp or Lanthorn in the passage set-- Which of the two I do not know.

  17. The murderers, having done their work on the poor Pedlar, approached her bed, and threw the gleam of their lanthorn full on her face; she lay quite still, breathing calmly and regularly.

  18. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning, By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lanthorn dimly burning.

  19. As he was speaking Eleazer was fumbling in a pocket of his long-tailed drab coat, and presently he brought something forth that gleamed in the lanthorn light.

  20. In the vehemence of his growing excitement his eyes appeared to shine green in the lanthorn light, and the sweat that had stood in beads upon his forehead was now running in streams down his face.

  21. But Wentworth, in his great haste, had already turned about, and the light of his lanthorn no longer revealed the form of Mr. Wilding.

  22. That it proceeded from a human being was evident enough, and Vickers hastily snatched up the lanthorn and strode in the direction from which it came.

  23. Audrey had stepped away from the circle of light made by the lanthorn and was gazing steadily in the direction which Chatfield had taken.

  24. No," said Vores, who had stepped up and opened the lanthorn as the man went on talking.

  25. Gwyn opened the lanthorn and found that the candle was half burned down, and for a moment he thought of setting up another in its place, for fear he should go to sleep and it should burn out.

  26. Hardock raised his lanthorn and stared vacantly in his employer's face.

  27. Joe uttered a groan, and began to wade after his companion, scraping the lanthorn against the roof from time to time in his agitation.

  28. Gwyn, after they had progressed for some time and the lanthorn door was opened.

  29. I know where we are now," he cried, as he raised his lanthorn and pointed to one of his white arrows.

  30. Vores, as he held a lanthorn to light the men.

  31. He snatched the lanthorn Joe carried, held it down, and stepped off the skep.

  32. There was plenty of air, too, for it rushed by now in a strong current which made the flame of the candle in the lanthorn he pushed on before him flutter and threaten to go out.

  33. He raised the iron rail which protected the hole, and again stepped into the skep, followed by Joe, lanthorn in hand, and with the candle-box slung from his shoulder.

  34. Dinass, looking wonderingly round as he slowly took the lanthorn from where it swung from his waist by a strap.

  35. For answer Hardock took a few steps forward, and held up his lanthorn to display a roughly-brushed white arrow on the wall pointing forward.

  36. Can you keep the lanthorn out of the water?

  37. Gwyn, holding up the lanthorn and wading farther in, but there was no answering bark.

  38. In the centre of the lanthorn is set upon a frame a large hexagonal reflecting cylinder, four feet in height, and three feet in diameter.

  39. Hunter of the United States Revenue Cutter Jackson inspected it and reported "The lanthorn is old and wants a new one.

  40. The Lanthorn is 7 feet high; the Circumference 15 Feet.

  41. The whole Construction of the Lanthorn is Iron; the top covered with Copper.

  42. And taking a dark lanthorn from under his cloak, he let the light play on the diamond.

  43. By the light of the lanthorn held by his lad the landlord perceived that the travellers were seven in number; three masters, three servants, and the coachman on the box.

  44. Mark loosened his hold on the dog, and he followed the mate and was lifted down into the great cavernous hole the men had made, while a lanthorn was held so that they could watch his proceedings.

  45. But in a little he was beside me again, bearing the lanthorn and with straw from his bed for my pillow, whereupon I cursed and bade him begone, but he never stirred.

  46. For answer the familiar set down the lanthorn and beckoned with his finger.

  47. Fra Alexo doeth nought unreasonably; thus we have our lanthorn that we, haply waking from dreams of home and happiness, may behold our prison walls and know an added grief.

  48. Creeping to the door of this lock-up, I saw she had set down the lanthorn and stood above the poor fettered captive, the pistol in her hand.

  49. Without more ado I tucked my shoes into my bosom, caught up the lanthorn and hasted away.

  50. Here our guide paused as if unsure; but suddenly was the gleam of a lanthorn and I heard Don Federigo's welcome voice: "Is that Hualipa?

  51. Now this voice was pitifully cracked and feeble, yet the words were English, wherefore I caught up the lanthorn and coming nearer, set it down where I might better behold the speaker.

  52. Cethru shook his head: "My lanthorn seed the rat, maybe!

  53. Remembering how the Captain of the Watch had admonished him, he stopped and peered about, but owing to his proximity to the light of his own lanthorn he saw nothing.

  54. What is this we hear, old man, about your lanthorn and the rat?

  55. They lifted up his head and held the lanthorn to his closed eyes.

  56. But for his life he could see nothing, only that the higher he held his lanthorn the more painful grew the sound of the fat but spiritual sighing.

  57. But because the Prince of Felicitas had so commanded him, he continued nightly to pass with his lanthorn up and down the street; and every morning as the saffron swan came swimming overhead, to fall asleep.

  58. Would you have a lanthorn to beat footpads?

  59. And ever the bats darkened his lanthorn with their wings and tried to beat the flame out.

  60. There, go and get your stable lanthorn and we'll see.

  61. Peter set the lanthorn on the floor and hurried off, leaving the little party watching and listening till he returned, but not a sound broke the silence, and there was nothing to see but the old worm-eaten wood and blackened tiles.

  62. He walked back to the table and set the lanthorn down.

  63. The lanthorn was dashed from the fellow's hand, and rolled to Kenneth's feet.

  64. Stronger it grew and farther it crept along the floor; then stopped and receded again, as he who bore the lanthorn turned and began to climb to the second floor.

  65. The minister looked keenly at the boy, and won over by the humility of his tone, he set the lanthorn on the table.

  66. On the opposite wall the light of the trooper's lanthorn fell brightly.

  67. By the light of a lanthorn he saddled one of the two nags that stood there, and led it into the yard.

  68. With sleeves rolled high above her pink and deeply-dimpled elbows stood Mistress Quinn at work upon the fashioning of a pastry, when her husband entered and set down his lanthorn with a sigh.

  69. The door opened, and on the threshold stood the Roundhead trooper, holding aloft a lanthorn whose rays were flashed back by his polished cuirass.

  70. The minister stood in silence for a moment; then setting his lanthorn upon the table, he raised his hands and eyes towards the low ceiling of the chamber.

  71. When he awakened the light of a lanthorn was on his face, and holding it stood beside him a tall black figure in a cloak and a slouched hat whose broad brim left the features unrevealed.

  72. He reached the lanthorn at last, and pulling aside the cloak, he lifted the light and set it upon the table.

  73. Then he groped his way along the wall to the spot where he had seen the lanthorn stand when Kenneth had flung his cloak over it.

  74. Have with you a lanthorn and a coil of strong rope.

  75. He showed her the light of the lanthorn for a moment, and then his black-cloaked figure and masked face blended indeterminately with the darkness around him.

  76. The words seemed to reassure the fellow, for the light advanced once more, and as he came up, I made him out to be a postilion by his dress, and the light he carried was the lanthorn of a chaise.

  77. Without another word the Postilion set the lanthorn back in its socket, and swung himself into the saddle.

  78. I was yet standing looking about me when a man issued from the stables upon my right, bearing a hammer in one hand and a lanthorn in the other.

  79. The Postilion's answer was to lower his lanthorn towards the face of him who lay on the ground between us, and point.

  80. Postilion as he came up, raising his lanthorn that he might view me the better; "it's you again, is it?

  81. It was hard work to lie there with the lanthorn held close up to them, but the boys both stood the ordeal.

  82. Mike, as the lanthorn disappeared; "don't go and do all the fun yourself.

  83. But hadn't we better wait till I've got a lanthorn and the rope?

  84. Yes: very terrible those ruthless executions with the lanthorn and the rope.

  85. An hour later the door was softly opened, and a lanthorn was thrust in, the captain following to look at each face in turn.

  86. Have it which way you like," said Vince, giving the lanthorn a swing, "but it seems to me most like the back attic window.

  87. As Mike spoke, he opened the door of the lanthorn and looked at the light anxiously, but they had not burned an inch.

  88. In the hurry and confusion the boys crouched in the bottom of the boat for some minutes, gazing at the lugger, and seeing lanthorn after lanthorn dancing about.

  89. You keep the lanthorn well up, so that you can see where you go, and then you can stop.

  90. Mike was rather disposed to fight against it, but he yielded to his companion's reasoning when he pointed out that before long they would be able to see the light, and their lanthorn would be superfluous.

  91. The lanthorn passed across the open mouth of the pot.

  92. Thus I was well able to observe his blanched face and wide dilated eyes fixed with horror on the lanthorn flame.

  93. When it was Peter's turn to ring he took a lighted lanthorn with him--not for the purpose of seeing others, but that others might see him.

  94. I could see the lanthorn at some little distance, but I could not distinguish the bearer.

  95. He set his lanthorn down on the ground, for the rays of the moon did not penetrate as far as the deep gloom the poplars threw around them, and began to dig.


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