Lamplight
[læmplait]
Definition
(n.) Light from a lamp.
Typist: Vance
Examples
- To blow the bridge is nothing, Golz had said, the lamplight on his scarred, shaved head, pointing with a pencil on the big map. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- This portable Diorama can be most conveniently shown by lamplight, the flame of an argand lamp, the wick of which can be heightened and lowered, being best adapted for the purpose. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The lamp above was lit; it rained a November drizzle, as it had rained all day: the lamplight gleamed on the wet pavement. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- By lamplight at home he worked out pencil outlines of a machine which would write figures and at the same time add them. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Madame Defarge immediately called to her husband that she would get them, and went, knitting, out of the lamplight, through the courtyard. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Instead of the soft twilight obscurity, in which we used to sit, the bright radiant glow of lamplight now dazzled my eyes. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
Edited by Babbage