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He immediately gave orders to count the lamps.
By some chance the lamp cabin remained standing, exhibiting on the left its bright rows of little lamps.
The pit-eye was rapidly filling; the greenish flood slowly enlarged under the red gleam of the three lamps which were still burning under the roof.
The twenty hustled one another as they went in single file, holding their lamps in the air so that the water should not extinguish them.
As long as they had light they did not despair, and they blew out one of the lamps to economize the oil, meaning to empty it into the other lamp.
He was wounded in the elbow, but had had the courage to go back on his knees, take their lamps, and search them to steal their bread-and-butter.
First he arranged the three lamps against the wall; only one was burning, the others could be used later on.
The miners, who were waiting there with bare feet and their lamps in their hands, looked at him with large restless eyes, and then lowered their faces, drawing back with an air of shame.
Cutting cables, tearing up rails, breaking lamps.
The light from our glass coils produced magical effects at times, lingering on the wrinkled roughness of some natural arch, or some overhang suspended like a chandelier, which our lamps flecked with fiery sparks.
Our lamps cast a sort of brilliant twilight over the area, making inordinately long shadows on the seafloor.
Air tanks, abundantly charged, were placed on our backs, but the electric lamps were not in readiness.
"With that minor addition," Conseil replied, "these fowl would make perfect lamps!
As for the Ruhmkorff lamps, they were unnecessary in the midst of these brilliant waters saturated with our electric rays.
Finally her husband, knowing that she liked to drive out, picked up a second-hand dogcart, which, with new lamps and splashboard in striped leather, looked almost like a tilbury.
They arrived at nightfall, just as the lamps in the park were being lit to show the way for the carriages.
One could hardly make out those that followed, for the light of the lamps lowered over the green cloth threw a dim shadow round the room.
The atmosphere of the ball was heavy; the lamps were growing dim.
They turned; all around them was turning—the lamps, the furniture, the wainscoting, the floor, like a disc on a pivot.
Sweat stood on every brow, and a whitish steam, like the vapour of a stream on an autumn morning, floated above the table between the hanging lamps.
The livid river was shivering in the wind; there was no one on the bridges; the street lamps were going out.
It was a solemn moment; the lamps burned more dimly.
It glistened darkly in the wet, the dim lamps flickered with each gust, the rain splashed steadily into the puddles and trickled down the water- spouts into the running gutters.
The light from the electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was dark.
It was not long, as may be imagined, before the whole household, from the headmaster to the stable boy, were out in the garden with lamps and lanterns.
Anyone might take the place for a subterranean gallery indistinctly lit-up by three funeral lamps.
"Trim those lamps there!" exclaimed the barber at this; "so you are of the same fraternity as your master, too, Sancho?
"Very good," said Sancho; "but now I want to know—the tombs where the bodies of those great lords are, have they silver lamps before them, or are the walls of their chapels ornamented with crutches, winding-sheets, tresses of hair, legs and eyes in wax?
"Now I have got you," said Sancho; "in that case the fame of them who bring the dead to life, who give sight to the blind, cure cripples, restore health to the sick, and before whose tombs there are lamps burning, and whose chapels are filled with devout folk on their knees adoring their relics be a better fame in this life and in the other than that which all the heathen emperors and knights-errant that have ever been in the world have left or may leave behind them?""That I grant, too," said Don Quixote.
"Then this fame, these favours, these privileges, or whatever you call it," said Sancho, "belong to the bodies and relics of the saints who, with the approbation and permission of our holy mother Church, have lamps, tapers, winding-sheets, crutches, pictures, eyes and legs, by means of which they increase devotion and add to their own Christian reputation.
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