How To Use kerosene lamp In A Sentence
- Nowadays she heats her place with a cast-iron stove perched on firebricks in the living room, cooks with propane, and does her beadwork at night by the light of a kerosene lamp while listening to a battery-operated radio.
- A stream of water flows onto the figure's head; its shiny white beard reflects the light from the kerosene lamp.
- It was cool and dark there, and on a low table by the bed there was already a kerosene lamp burning dully through its dirty chimney.
- He, who neither drank nor smoked, who never wasted the weight of his arms in an embrace, nor the touch of his lips a second longer than the most perfunctory of kisses, who was invariably up before cockcrow and asleep ere the kerosene lamp had a tenth emptied itself, and who never thought to die, was dead even more quickly than Brother Hal and Prince Lilolilo. ON THE MAKALOA MAT
- Prior to kerosene lamps, most lamps consisted of whale blubber.
- Many kinds of illumination methods, such as torch, oil lamp, candle, kerosene lamp, gas lamp, electric light, and so on, have been applied in the human history.
- We used kerosene lamps and stood in line for hours with buckets to draw water from a public water pipe.
- On a dilapidated black-and-white television sits an old kerosene lamp which he lights when a blackout plunges him into darkness.
- She poured herself a second glass of wine and shut down the kerosene lamp, which was attracting moths. FOLLY
- The rough bare boards of the walls, naked but for one old picture of a horse cut from a magazine, carefully pasted upside down, and probably designed chiefly to cover some defective spot that was admitting too much coldness; the crazy table shaking with every gust and causing a tiny kerosene lamp to flare up and menace the dim religious darkness by depositing even more lamp-black than was its wont on its already negrine globe; the meagre board of dark bread, "oleo," and molasses; the weird minstrelsy of the hurricane -- the whole a harmony of poverty and war. Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers
