Sentence examples for Under the lamp from inspiring English sources

At the Phillips sale, for example, Picasso's masterful 1962 linocut "Still Life with Glass Under the Lamp" sold to an online bidder for $250,000.

"It's the old story about the drunk looking for his car keys under the lamp post -- because the light is good there," she said.

The thing resembled a dark-green hand grenade, and under the lamp that hung above the dinner table it gleamed and steamed, to my appalled eyes, with the promise of pure malice.

On the dresser under the lamp there was a pamphlet that said "Your Service Member Is Home!" The TV was going in the living room, but maybe she was in the cellar.

He thought he had dropped it in the dark, back down the street, but he was looking for it under the lamp, where at least the light was good.

The span here is from a very familiar Blue Period etching, "The Frugal Repast" (1904), said to be his first print, depicting an impoverished couple at their meager meal, to "Still Life With Glass Under the Lamp" (1962), a crisp, angular linoleum cut that uses his own device of a one-block process for color printing.

Now mains is under the lamps, waiting to be carved: its meat most powerful at the heart.

The setup was small, just two parallel tubes of PVC piping with plastic cups of seeds and dirt under the lamps.

Scott meticulously places chairs under the lamps, then exits, holding fast to Anfisa's quick-step rhythm.

"It is always darkest directly under the shadow of the lamp," was the courtly reply.

When finding the illumination is under the preset threshold, the lamp member will send a turning-on vote to the lamp leader.