"For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical and spiritual provision as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder".
Ugarte's wrists had broken after she was strung up from the ceiling and her breasts were burned with a blow-lamp.
I suppose the term hurricane lamp should have given me a clue, but after duly writing my journal entry, I blew out the lamp and crept under the mosquito netting.
The rest tended to fall in line with Robert G. Ingersoll, a 19th-century orator, who said, "Anger blows out the lamp of the mind".
His was the darkness more palpably present when she blew her own lamp out.' Perhaps too much has been written by and about Byron to allow the contemporary novelist much room to reimagine him from within.
The year that Afamefuna left for secondary school, Nwamgba felt as if a lamp had been blown out in a dim room.
She has also created work using cast glass, blown glass, Schott crystal, fluorescent tubing, lamp glass, industrial sheet glass and mirrors.
"Strawweight" is a hymn to a fighting grandfather, once "fast enough his fists blew out the lamps", his glory days now "gone like a day's work".
To escape Cuthbert J. Twillie (Fields), who believes he has conjugal rights, Flower Belle puts a goat in the bed of their bridal suite, blows out the lamps and leaves the room in darkness.
Gilges says that prices for lamps with damascene or blown glass shades, instead of leaded glass, start at about $8,000 to $12,000.
A soft rain starts to fall, and one by one, the oil lamps and candles are blown out.
