What is "lanterns"

Usage examples of "lanterns".

She dodged among the people and used the huge cryptomeria trees and the stone lanterns and monuments as cover.

Strings of spherical, red paper lanterns decorated the first- and second-floor eaves.

And a young artist, a westcountryman, who painted folding paper lanterns with pictures of Benkei on the Gojo Bridge.

A glow at the horizon, like a row of floor lanterns behind a screen, promised better weather.

His pole, festooned with collapsed pleated painted lanterns, lay under the bench on which he sat.

Cat had a vivid memory of the broad avenue awash in light from the lanterns strung along the second-story eaves.

He stuck his long-sword back into his sash, put on his sandals, shouldered his pole of lanterns, and sauntered casually off in the wake of the lion dancers.

They had put them in gauze-covered cages and used them as lanterns to light the way home.

They lined the path to their front gate with stone lanterns that glowed cheerfully, welcoming travelers caught by nightfall.

Mishima by the light of the moon and the big lanterns hung from the outlying shops and tea houses.

However, plenty of witnesses and lanterns had been on hand when the men were pulled from the ravine.

The only opening was a wooden gate flanked by lanterns and two red-painted wooden statues of the ferocious guardian kings who frightened away demons.

Stone lanterns lit patches of the bare ground in front of the building, but not much of their light reached here.

Servants were lighting the strings of lanterns strung from the first- and second-story eaves of the establishments on Trysting House Way.

Only the flickering lanterns lit the rocky track and reflected back from the arch of trees overhead.