What is "lamplight"

Usage examples of "lamplight".

Nith Immmon gave a little chuckle in which rows of very sharp yellow teeth glistered in the fusion lamplight.

Lorn, who tilted it closer to the lamplight as Abernethy peered over his shoulder.

Arnault drew his sword and, acting for the Church Militant, made a solemn circuit of the room, beginning in the west, tracing a sacred circle with his blade, his Templar robes ashimmer in the lamplight.

Church Militant, made a solemn circuit of the room, beginning in the west, tracing a sacred circle with his blade, his Templar robes ashimmer in the lamplight.

She was staring down at the little pot and the single coin and pebble that Burla had tossed there as if she were hypnotized by their glow in the flickering lamplight.

It made Domini smile in sympathy, but De Trevignac and Androvsky looked at each other for a moment, the one with a sort of earnest inquiry, the other with hostility, or what seemed hostility, across the circle of lamplight that lay between them.

Within an hour, lamplight revealed a plain black iron pot, no different from the dutchies in which Negroes simmered ackee and saltcod.

The brass footrail along the length of the bar dully reflected the oil lamplight.

Cut off from the happy din at the fringes, red eyed in a hellish play of lamplight, the bald brute licked broken teeth.

The local taxi, a long station wagon with rocket-age fins and writing on its side, dropped off Ginger and Betsy and their gypsyish and disheveled bundles and satchels in a confusion of lamplight and opening doors and asking and answering voices.

When it got too dark to see, he walked back to the warehouse, on the way buying an apple kuchen at a bakery with a curtain behind the counter looped back to reveal a man in his shirt sleeves eating a plate of stew at a table bathed in soft yellow lamplight.

Bizarrely, I catch a glimpse of myself in a gilded mirror: a headless, traumatized figure in gore-rimmed torn pajamas, drink in hand, floating the lamest of bons mots at a crowd of swank, grotesquely ignorant party-goers -- in a warm, sumptuous paradise of a room, amid ornate carpets and polished things gleaming in lamplight.

The lamplight was harsh, filling the room, and oddly lusterless on her hair.

Now specks of lamplight blended in the dark, softly glowing here and there, like marshlight shimmering over a murderous swamp.

His jaw looked very square in the lamplight, and his eyes shone like steel as he took it from her and opened the envelope.