What is "lamplit"

Usage examples of "lamplit".

In the midst of that dark pavement, right before the lamplit steps, one single slab of the floor was new, hewn of pale gray granite, its surface rough against the worn, silken smoothness of the rest of the floor, though it, too, was covered with that agelong mantle of dust.

From the rest of the lamplit gloom his eyes picked out a pallet on the groundsheet of the tent, hooks on the central pole of the tent for clothing and weapons, a chest with her name and rank stenciled on it in the blockier form of Nantukhtar writing.

And tales and rumours arose along the shores of the sea concerning mariners and men forlorn upon the water who, by some fate or grace or favour of the Valar, had entered in upon the Straight Way and seen the face of the world sink below them, and so had come to the lamplit quays of Avall?

The horse nickered and snuffed shyly at the hocks of the other animals standing at stall before the lamplit bagnios they passed.

Effusive enough when introduced to Lucy in the hall, Gwyn was now concertedly loving her upon a sofa beneath the mullioned window, against a galaxy of lamplit snow.

As I did so I felt a breeze flap against my face like a warm, wet sheet and saw coils of lamplit mist swirl like languid smoke round the end of a row of beach huts.

Along toward dusk, a bell rang, and the Sisters left the buildings in procession, single file, winding through the woods toward a tall lamplit building with an arrangement of bell tower and chapel to one side.

Closing his eyes, Josh approached the lamplit door, eyes shut, hands out in front of him like a child playing blind man's buff.

Every man cast a tremendously long and attenuated shadow, either high on the tent's roof or from his feet across the lot into the far distance where the shadow was absorbed into the night, and when he walked the long shadows of his legs scissored like an immense, black, insubstantial pair of shears trying to trim the lamplit weeds off the lot.

I thought of the quiet lamplit street out front, the charming architecture of this house, the pair of matched magnolia trees, the arbor hung with star jasmine.