Lighted

Examples

• The boy's eyes had lighted with pleasure as I spoke, and I saw him glance from his rusty trappings to the magnificence of my own. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• If a gas jet is turned on and not lighted, an odor of gas soon becomes perceptible, not only throughout the room, but in adjacent halls and even in distant rooms. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The room had once been lighted by a small side window, but this had been bricked up, and a lantern skylight was now substituted for it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• And the twilight, as she now sought to pierce it, was gradually lighted by a faint spark of reassurance. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• In 1792 Murdoch erected a gas distilling apparatus, and lighted his house and offices by gas distributed through service pipes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• As we advanced the light increased until presently we emerged into well-lighted passageways. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• They lighted up Rebecca's figure to admiration, as she sat on a sofa covered with a pattern of gaudy flowers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The soldier with the basket soon got a light, and lighted three or four torches, and took one himself and distributed the others. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The gas first evaporating is nitrogen, and a lighted match applied to the surface of the liquid is quickly extinguished, since nitrogen does not support combustion. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The stranger produced a match, and lighted a cigar, saying, as he did so, Decentish kind o' wench you've got round there, stranger. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Bella's eyes followed him to the door, lighted on Mr Boffin complacently thrown back in his easy chair, and drooped over her book. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Miss Pross had lighted the lamp, but had put it aside in a corner, that they might enjoy the fire-light undisturbed. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• She went into the kitchen, and stirred up the fire, and lighted the house, and prepared for the wanderer's refreshment. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I felt apprehensive that I was personally interested in this dialogue, and sought Mr. Murdstone's eye as it lighted on mine. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Before I could knock at the door it was suddenly opened, and a man came running out with a lighted lantern in his hand. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He lighted the candle from the flaring match with great deliberation, and dropped the match, and trod it out. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Lizzie finished putting the hair carefully back over the misshapen shoulders, and then lighted a candle. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It was lighted before ours was, Fairway continued; and yet every one in the country round is out afore 'n. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Grant Munro rushed into the lighted room at the top, and we entered at his heels. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• You were satisfied that he could not have been concealed in the room all the time, or in the corridor which you have just described as dimly lighted? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Far below me lay the brilliantly lighted streets, the hard pavements, and death. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• It lighted up the room where the murdered woman lay. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The troops lighted their way through this with candles carried in their hands for a mile and a half, when they came to an open plantation. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• She took it up, and we went through more passages and up a staircase, and still it was all dark, and only the candle lighted us. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• She brought his cigar and lighted it for him; she knew the effect of that manoeuvre, having practised it in former days upon Rawdon Crawley. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Richard expressed himself quite sure of that and lighted Mr. Vholes out. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Her face lighted up. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• One after another, Birkin lighted their cigarettes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The candles lighted up Lord Steyne's shining bald head, which was fringed with red hair. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• To insure the attention of the attendant, a tiny electric lamp is by the same action lighted directly in front of her, which acts as a pilot signal to call her attention to the drop. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

Typist: Paul