Oonah now arose, and groped her way to the fireplace, where, by dint of blowing upon the embers and poking the rushlight among the turf ashes, a light was at length obtained.
Soleil Montrer le soleil avec un flambeau = To hold a farthingrushlight to the sun; To paint the lily.
Montrer Montrer le soleil avec un flambeau = To paint the lily; To hold a farthing rushlightto the sun.
Then I thanked him for asking Grandmamma to let me have the Rushlight till Margery came home; and he said I ought to be very much obliged to him, for he had begged me off the barber too.
Then the Rushlight began to get dim again, so I got up and snuffed it, and it shone out bright, and I thought "If it was Margery she would do it straight off.
Would they wake with a jump, as I did, if Jael flashed the Rushlight in their faces?
The side door key is very rusty and very stiff; I had to put down the Rushlight and use both my hands, and just then the clock struck the half-hour, which was rather a good thing, for it drowned the noise of the lock.
I thought rash people were brave; and if I had been brave, the Rushlight would never have come out of the roof.
I hoped it might have been lessons, or even, perhaps, not having theRushlight again, but I did not think Grandmamma would think of hurting the Sunflowers.
So I took up theRushlight and went as fast as I could.
When bedtime came I was a good deal tired; but after I got into bed I kept my candle alight for a time, hoping Jael would bring the Rushlight and put it on the floor near Margery's bed, as I had asked her to do.
I counted all the strokes, and then I saw that the Rushlight was getting dim again, so I got up and snuffed it, and all the moons came out as bright as ever; but I did not feel in the least sleepy.
They are so tall, theRushlight was too heavy for me to lift right up, so I opened the door and took out the candle, and flashed it in their faces.
A rushlight burnt in the room, and the farmer's wife kept putting it straight on its spike.
Not until we were in the parlour and the rushlight was burning did he ask how we had fared.
The rushlight had gone out, but this I hardly knew, only that an earthy wind, smelling of damp and mildews, blew about my face, and I was stiff from lying asleep upon my book.
Nothing was changed in the room since last night, except only that the rushlight had dwindled to a pool of cold fat; but how long it had been out I could not gauge.
There was neither moonlight nor rushlight in the room, so that I could only grope with my fingers for the secret the panel must contain.
So I went within doors, where some one had set a starveling rushlight in the chamber that was my lord's dining-hall, and there I sat me down with my Latin grammar and the Virgil my lord had given me.
The nights were almost at their longest now, and the cold was very great; but the watchers piled fresh logs upon the fire, and talked quietly to each other as they sat in the dancing glow--for the rushlight had long since gone out.
Edward had meantime kindled the rushlight and set light to a small fire on the hearth, for the weather was bitterly cold.
As I had asked for a night-light, the chamberlain had brought me in, before he left me, the good old constitutional rushlight of those virtuous days.
Although rushlights antedated candles, some of the holders were made to answer a dual purpose, and on the same stem or slide as the rushlight holder there was a candle socket, an important feature fully exemplified in Figs.
To range side by side a number of rushlight holders taken from districts widely apart, it becomes evident that there was a striking similarity between the earlier types.
A great white owl was driven through the window-grating, putting out the rushlightas it blundered across the chamber.
Witherlee, filling his pipe afresh and watching Nanny's shadow go creeping up the wall as she stepped in front of the rushlight burning on the table.
The rushlight made strange shadows up and down the walls, and the cobwebs floated like grey ghosts.
Hiram Hey was not abed, as it chanced, but a rushlight was in his hands and his foot on the bottom stair when Griff's masterful rat-tat sounded on the door.
When I had done, Mrs Wilson took a rushlight and led the way.
The guard of the rushlight cast deeper and queerer shadows, as the fire sank lower.
Before we set off I bethought me of the paper which my mother had slipped into my hand on parting, and drawing it from my pouch I read it by the rushlight in our chamber.
I made no answer to this Job's comforter, so he presently left me, placing the bowl upon the chair, with the rushlight beside it.
It was now quite dark, and I was pacing up and down the little chamber, when the key turned in the door, and the Captain entered with a rushlight and a great bowl of bread and milk.
The rushlight had burned out and the cell was impenetrably dark.
The rushlight was too dim to be of much use, so Walter lit match after match, while Charley bent over and examined the stricken man.
But, before the boys could reach the opening, the Indians outside began to wriggle in, each bearing a rushlight in its earthen saucer of oil.
On a bed of boughs and skins near therushlight lay what had been once a magnificent figure of a warrior.
Will the reader consent to a few compressed glances into the extinct Dubourgay Correspondence; much compressed, and here and there a rushlight stuck in it, for his behoof.
An excellent distinct little Pamphlet; very explanatory in this matter,--like the smallest rushlight in a dark cellar of shot-lumber.
Hastily she did up the massive and shining coils, hastily donned a wrapper, and with the rushlight in her hand, stole into the hall.
She advanced, took a chair by the toilet-table and the candle, and set the rushlight at her foot.
It was a very dark night; so dark that the rushlight in Sonny's room seemed almost brilliant from the verandah.
Here, as the lights of the dogcart flashed by, they lit up for an instant a quaint little group gathered round a rushlight set on the ground.
A rushlight some twelve to fifteen inches long would burn half an hour, and it had to receive constant attention, being pushed upwards every five minutes.
A rushlight was burning upon the table, the candlestick placed in a basin of water.
I would have preferred any glimmer of a rushlight to darkness, and sleep to any musical entertainment.
The rushlight was burned out; but in the summer night she could still make out the outline of Mistress Alice's bed.
The porter was fast asleep, and did not move, as carrying a rushlight she went past the buttery with her friend behind her saying no word.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rushlight" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
