Lantern in example sentence

During breakfast the talk went on, and in the course of it the old man said that the last thing which he and his sons had done, before going to bed, was to get a lantern and examine the stile and its vicinity for marks of blood.

More example sentences with word lantern

I think babies and young children seem to have more of a lantern of consciousness than a spotlight of consciousness.

You may be imagining huge monsters lurking in the deep sea, but most of the animals are very small, like this lantern fish.

Here we have Diogenes with his lantern.

The next moment, as soon as they finished and disappeared into the shadows, a young man with a propane lantern came on, hung it up on a tree, set up a curtain.

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