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n. (alternative form of dark lantern English)
Usage examples of "dark-lantern".
With his dark-lantern mind, unled, alone, Wearifully through forest-tracts unsown, He travels, urged by some internal goad.
Jack to Stephen some time later, when the ship could be allowed a glim behind her deadlights and the dark-lanterns were put out.
They've got dark-lanterns, apparently, and he only caught a couple of reflected blue flashes.
Though they too muck about with dark-lanterns, where they oughtn't?
He sat up, saw that Stephen's cot was empty, opened the slide of the dark-lantern, looked at the tell-tale compass overhead, looked at the barometer - still sinking steadily - silently drew on his clothes and crept out, moving with great caution in case he should wake Colonel d'Ullastret, who, the little ship being so crowded, slept in the dining-cabin, an ever-present menace.