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Examples
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Grief took one hasty, comprehensive examination of the engine and the fittings of the tiny room, then blew out the oil-lamp.
THE PEARLS OF PARLAY 2010
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That's where I got my replica coins, my charioteer clay oil-lamp and the little green * Egyptian* glass bottle for scented oil and gladiator scrapings!
Some Frequently Asked Questions addressed to Roman Mysteries author Caroline Lawrence 2010
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I strode up the verandah steps, looked through the space where a chick had been torn down, and saw a wrecked room, with an oil-lamp burning feebly, and a white man, his left leg soaked in blood, lying against the wall, a sabre in his hand, staring at me with feverish eyes.
Fiancée 2010
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It was pleasant with a log-fire and the mellow light from an oil-lamp.
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There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to observe it at the time.
Sole Music 2010
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It grew brighter, and the miserable-looking woman came in with a big oil-lamp.
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His oil-lamp was a flickering, insubstantial smudge of light, crushed by the weight of the darkness.
Archive 2010-06-01 Megan Arkenberg 2010
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He saw Mr Perton coming quietly along the corridor with a little oil-lamp held in his hand.
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His oil-lamp was a flickering, insubstantial smudge of light, crushed by the weight of the darkness.
A Sorcerous Mist Megan Arkenberg 2010
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A brass and porcelain oil-lamp lit the tiny room softly.
red dust Ryn Cricket 2010
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