A couple of lanthorns stood in the middle of the floor, and that was all.
Even when the light failed the pageant did not cease, but, torches and lanthorns springing into life, turned night into day.
Her bulwarks gleamed in the sunlight with the lines of polished helmets; and though I had no spying-glass I fancied that high up near her lanthorns I could make out the Adelantado and by his side the stalwart figure of Diego de Baçan.
Across the channel from time to time we fancied we could make out the twinkling of lights, small like stars; but whether they were glow-flies or lights of lanthorns or fires upon a distant beach we could not discover.
Down near the river’s mouth I fancied I could see the twinkling of the lanthorns upon the Trinity as she swung to the tide; but the ships were almost too far away for that.
We sawlanthorns and a figure upon the great vessel and we heard a strong voice say: “‘Whence does this fleet come?
Overhead the clouds hung dark and heavy, for though ’twas a full hour before sunset the sky was so gloomy that all the lanthorns below were lighted.
They have cast off all concealment now, and are coming up to the gate in thousands, many of them with lanthorns at the end of their spears.
They can lead their horses," replied Heron roughly, "but I'll have no lanthorns lighted.
They wait to know if they may light their lanthorns and then lead their horses.
They shouted and stamped and swarmed round the open window, swinging their lanthorns and demanding in a loud tone of voice that the English spy be shown to them.
A whole throng of Pierrots had swarmed into the Place from every side, carrying lighted torches and tall staves, on which were hung lanthorns with many-coloured lights.
Closely following on this epoch of migratory lanthorns in a world of extinction, came the era of oil-lights, hard to kindle, easy to extinguish, pale and wavering in the hour of their endurance.
A second or two later it came to a stand before the inn amid a crowd of helpers and stable lads, whose lanthorns dazzled the travellers' eyes.
Ostlers' lanthorns twinkled hither and thither, and the place was like a fair.
But there'll be lanthorns burning and a watch kept.
A dead silence fell upon the group as the engineer took one of the lanthorns and carefully examined the damage, the squire holding the other light, and peering forward in the darkness till the engineer climbed back to his side.
The streets of Johnstown were dark, save for the rare lanthorns of the watchmen, but there seemed to be many people abroad, most of them noisy and quarrelsome.
I guess thelanthorns swing a-light on every seventh," he said.
Tramp, tramp, tramp, came the heavy footfalls along the corridor; the ruddy gleam of lanthornsplayed over the wicket.
Chorus: On the deep, in the night, for a seaman to light His little lost lanthorns there.
Rangsley set one of his lanthorns on the window and twisted the top.
A couple of dark lanthorns were passed to Rangsley, who half-uncovered one, and lit the way up steep wooden stairs.
Cesar, going his rounds along the gallery, shuffled his silk-clad shanks smartly between two young negroes balancing lanthorns suspended on the shafts of their halberds.
They went away busily, the lanthorns swinging about the ax-heads of the halberds, Cesar's staff tapping the stones.
His stakes were very large, and all depended on the flicker of those lanthorns out towards the men on the luggers that were hidden in the black expanse of the sea.
The light of thelanthorns shining on a rut in the road showed a field-mouse hurrying inland before the rushing gale.
I went to a ball at Lord Stanley's, a mixture of French horns and clarionets and coloured glass lanthorns and candles in gilt vases, and young ladies pouring tea in white, and musicians in red, and draperies and flowers ad libitum.
And he led me, all in a tremble over his answer, to a large stone dwelling with arched windows, and pillared portico with lanthorns and link extinguishers, an area and railing beside it.
The men gathered quickly, some lanthorns were fetched, and in the light of them stood the crew near to the round-house.
The lanthorns had been carried away and the ship was plunged in darkness.
For a few moments there was a pause, during which in the deep silence there was the regular dip of oars, and the lanthorns gently rose and fell upon the smooth rollers of the tide.
A fewlanthorns are allowed, far into the interior of that weird forest of beams under the molens where slender protection against a bitter north-westerly wind can alone be found.
The mist envelops them, it is barely light in this basement beneath the molens: lanthorns have long ago been kicked into extinction.
She herself was young, and in the soft light of the two lanthorns appeared to the three philosophers to be more than passing fair.
The girl retreated as the kind lady advanced, apparently scared by the two men who had paused one at each corner of the passage holding their lanthorns well above their heads.
The lanthorn-bearers made way for the lady, still holding the lanthorns up so that the light fell fully on the quaint spectacle presented by the three philosophers.
Thou canst not mistake them even in the dark, for the light of the lanthorns which they carry will be upon them.
Forced to stop and take breath when we had scrambled up fifty yards or so, I saw their lanthorns shining like moving glow-worms; I could even hear the clink of steel.
They had only two lanthorns burning, and we were beyond the circle of light cast by these; while the steady tramp of so many footsteps covered the noise we made.
The lanthorns had to be lit, and the way to be retraced; by the time we reached the dark pool which lay below, the last bubbles were gone from the surface, the last ripples had beaten themselves out against the banks.
But the light from the coach lanthorns prevented his seeing clearly into the darkness beyond.
There was the sudden crash of broken glass, the coach lanthorns had been seized and broken: it seemed to Yvonne de Kernogan that out of the darkness faces distorted with fury were peering at her through the window-panes.
At night it was dimly lighted by one or two broken-down lanthorns which were hung on transverse chains overhead from house to house.
The street lanthorns were few in this squalid corner of the city, and it was only when perforce the running hare had to cross a circle of light that the hounds were able to keep hot on the trail.
He was now in the middle of the bridge--an unmistakable figure of a giant vaguely silhouetted against the light from the lanthorns on the further end of the bridge--seeming preternaturally tall and misshapen with that hump upon his back.
But the two dim lanthorns in the life-boat went on and on, the thunder of the surf on the wreck guiding them.
All that was said as the two girls clasped each other and watched the dim lanthorns far at sea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lanthorns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
