"Oil lamp" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Illuminating Engineering Society, D. McFarlan Moore made the following observations: "A few years ago there was practically no way of changing the colors of the various forms of lamps, that is, the candle had its color perforce; such a thing as modifying it was not dreamed of. The oil lamp had its color; the open burner gas flame its color, the incandescent lamp its color, and the arc lamp its color. At the present time there are only two ways widely in use of varying the color; that is, if a ...
— Color Value • C. R. Clifford
... the doctor did not care even if the clock did strike nine just as they stopped at their own gate. The night was dark and the bride could not distinguish the exterior of the house, neither was the interior plainly discernible, lighted as it was with an oil lamp, and a single tallow candle. But she scarcely thought of this, so intent was she upon the beautiful face of the crippled boy, who sat in his armchair, eagerly awaiting ...
— Cousin Maude • Mary J. Holmes
... they finally emerged from the black curtain of oil. "Of all the messy stuff! Betty, you look as though an oil lamp had ...
— Betty Gordon at Boarding School - The Treasure of Indian Chasm • Alice Emerson
... and both the man and the child were deep in sleep. Then Jan stopped. There was the fire of a keen wakefulness in his eyes as he carefully unfastened the strings of his instrument, and held it close to the oil lamp, so that he could peer down through the ...
— The Honor of the Big Snows • James Oliver Curwood
... dusk. The corners of the great room were in darkness. Beneath the elevated desk, behind which sat Coleman, Bluxome, the secretary, lighted a single oil lamp, the better to see his notes. In the interest of the proceedings a general illumination had not been ordered. Within the shadow, the door opened and Charles Doane, the Grand Marshal of the Vigilantes, advanced three steps ...
— The Forty-Niners - A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado • Stewart Edward White
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