Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The light of a lantern.
- noun In architecture, a lantern on the top of a dome; a dome-light. See
lantern , n., 3.
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Examples
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"Get us out of here soon," said another, in the spectral lantern-light of the mine.
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"Get us out of here soon," said another, in the spectral lantern-light of the mine.
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There is almost nothing in common between the villager conning his book of scriptures by lantern-light and the contemporary apartment dweller riffing the pages of a newspaper while attending to live televised reports from Bosnia.
Archive 2007-06-01 Bruce Schauble 2007
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There is almost nothing in common between the villager conning his book of scriptures by lantern-light and the contemporary apartment dweller riffing the pages of a newspaper while attending to live televised reports from Bosnia.
Reading in an Electronic Age Bruce Schauble 2007
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The lantern-light had disturbed many bees that had escaped from hives destroyed some days earlier, and, demoralized by affliction, were now getting a living as marauders about the doors of other hives.
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Well, as I write this by lantern-light I am wondering if my lantern plunger is interchangeable with the one on the stove.
Archive 2004-09-01 johnny_mango 2004
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Well, as I write this by lantern-light I am wondering if my lantern plunger is interchangeable with the one on the stove.
Plunger Troubles...and Rule #1 johnny_mango 2004
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Lungan smashed wine-shop doors and made its own kind of beast, dancing in lantern-light, in the wreckage of neighbors, chaining down rock-littered streets and arming itself with dead men's weapons.
2005 Cherryh, C. J. 2005
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He pushed past the corner, past the men who interfered with him, and saw a street in which the fighting had gone far down the lanes, leaving its detritus of bodies and spent missiles in shadow and sporadic lantern-light.
2005 Cherryh, C. J. 2005
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Black figures showed in the lantern-light up and down tannery row, small groups who did not stay to the walks, but who gave a group of horsemen an uncomfortably apparent attention.
2005 Cherryh, C. J. 2005
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