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Lighted in sentence

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I expected to see a white cone covered with the eternal snow of ages rising from the midst of the barren deserts of the icy north, faintly lighted with the pale rays of the arctic sun, far away in the highest latitudes known; but contrary to all our expectations, my uncle, the Icelander, and myself were sitting half-way down a mountain baked under the burning rays of a southern sun, which was blistering us with the heat, and blinding us with the fierce light of his nearly vertical rays.
From there I should explore every hut upon the moor until I lighted upon the right one.
The lamp was lighted and so also was my father's pipe.
The little Gardiners, attracted by the sight of a chaise, were standing on the steps of the house as they entered the paddock; and, when the carriage drove up to the door, the joyful surprise that lighted up their faces, and displayed itself over their whole bodies, in a variety of capers and frisks, was the first pleasing earnest of their welcome.
The fire was lighted, and it was easy to preserve some embers.
The passage was lighted up with a bright flame.
"But who lighted it?"
The fire was lighted, and Neb and Pencroft, on whom the functions of cooks naturally devolved, to the one in his quality of Negro, to the other in that of sailor, quickly prepared some broiled agouti, to which they did great justice.
To the south the horizon, lighted by the first rays of the moon, was very clearly defined against the sky.
A shock is therefore needed to produce the explosion, for, simply lighted, this substance would burn without exploding.
The torches were lighted with flint and steel, and Cyrus Harding leading, the settlers ventured into the dark passage, which the overplus of the lake had formerly filled.
The blazing resin, whose illuminating power increased still more by the rapidity of its fall, lighted up the interior of the well, but yet nothing appeared.
"Ah, my friends!" exclaimed Cyrus Harding, "when we have lighted the interior of this place, and have arranged our rooms and storehouses in the left part, we shall still have this splendid cavern, which we will make our study and our museum!"
The sides of the well were lighted up for an instant, but as at the first time, nothing suspicious was seen.
The front of Granite House was then to be lighted by five windows and a door, besides a large bay window and some smaller oval ones, which would admit plenty of light to enter into the marvelous nave which was to be their chief room.
Then, with the pickaxe and spade, the windows and doors were properly shaped, the jagged edges were smoothed off, and a few days after the beginning of the work, Granite House was abundantly lighted by the rising sun, whose rays penetrated into its most secret recesses.
It recalled to Pencroft the day on which he lighted his only match, and all the anxiety of the operation.
A fire of brushwood and dried seaweed was lighted, and Neb prepared the breakfast of cold meat, to which he added some cups of Oswego tea.
To economize them, the cavern was often only lighted by the blazing hearths, on which fuel was not spared.
The colonists disembarked, and a fire was soon lighted under a clump of trees, among the branches of which Cyrus Harding and his companions could, if it was necessary, take refuge for the night.
It was real enjoyment to the settlers when in their room, well lighted with candles, well warmed with coal, after a good dinner, elderberry coffee smoking in the cups, the pipes giving forth an odoriferous smoke, they could hear the storm howling without.
Then, having lighted a lantern, taken a revolver, and placed a cutlass in his belt, he began the descent.
When day had sufficiently lighted up the field of battle, the settlers counted as many as fifty dead bodies scattered about on the shore.
He filled it himself, lighted it with a glowing coal, and appeared to be the happiest of quadrumana.
This lighted for a minute a small room, which appeared perfectly empty.
Lincoln Island was there, and this fire, evidently lighted by Cyrus Harding, showed them the course to be followed.
Certainly, when formerly lighted up by intelligence, this man's face must have had a sort of beauty.
A few minutes after, finding himself alone in the bows of the vessel, with the reporter, the engineer bent down and whispered,--"If there is one thing certain in this world, Spilett, it is that I never lighted any fire during the night of the 19th of October, neither on Prospect Heights nor on any other part of the island!"
The fire had served to signalize the position of the island during that dark night, and they had not doubted that it was lighted by the engineer's hand; and here was Cyrus Harding expressly declaring that he had never done anything of the sort!
However that might be, on this evening no fire was lighted on these yet unknown shores, which formed the entrance to the gulf, and the little vessel stood off during the night.
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