Sentence examples for a lantern on from inspiring English sources

The fountain had a 28-foot-high column topped with a weather vane and a lantern; on one side was a wide watering trough for horses, on the other separate drinking places for dogs and humans.

Alas, experience is a "lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us".

"It's going to feel like a lantern on the street," said the building's architect, Natan Bibliowicz.

They posited that empty space is filled with an invisible field — now called the Higgs field — that absorbs the lines of force, much as water vapor will absorb light from a lantern on a foggy night.

When Vinnie arrived home, she found her whole family waiting up by a lantern on a big ceremonial kuta mat on the living-room floor — all but her youngest, Samuel, who hid under a blanket in a nearby room, ashamed that he'd grown chubbier in her absence, and frightened that his mother wouldn't recognize him.

The way Ware hangs a lantern on his story's weaker beats, for instance — when a not-quite-dead baby mouse reminds one character of a long-ago abortion, she thinks: "What a ridiculous metaphor... really, could it have been any more obvious?

We'll keep the light on and a lantern out in front".

The unremittingly dark nights, the stationmaster holding an oil lantern on a deserted platform, acquired a fresh mystery; there was great drama in the figures of peasants working in the flat fields under vast skies, and also in the small-town bazaars, whose garish shop signs managed to stoke longing as keenly as the familiar cries of hawkers that erupted at every stop.

What's Up Venus is the undisputed "star" of the month, illuminating the western sky like a lantern, and on 15 and 16 May, it forms a lovely pair witht the narrow crescent Moon.

Officially called the Industrial National Bank Building, the 428-foot skyscraper in downtown Providence is the city's tallest building and a wonderful example of Art Deco architecture, with geometric friezes and a staggered facade that narrows to a lantern light on top.

Festivities included services at which the Bishops of Armidale and Bathurst were special preachers, music, processions, a lantern lecture on "Old Sydney" by the municipal librarian, and social events such as a ferry outing and a luncheon at which the chief guest was the Governor Sir Walter Davidson accompanied by his wife Lady Davidson.