Sentence examples for burning lamp from inspiring English sources

"He was a bright burning lamp, that just like that was extinguished".

2. Hanukkah means eating doughnuts To commemorate the miracle of the burning lamp, Jews customarily eat foods fried in oil and this means doughnuts.

You can read a letter from a girl named Asya, who tells a relative, "We're sitting here with a burning lamp, hungry as winter wolves".

To make a phonautogram, Scott fastened a sheet of paper around the cylinder, then blackened the paper in the smoke of a burning lamp.

There is a long tradition in art, going back at least to the time of Petrarch, of a poet being crowned with a wreath of laurel, and such scholars as St. Jerome and St. Thomas Aquinas are traditionally depicted beside such a burning lamp" (Charles Scribner III, unpublished memo dated 2 June 1994).

In his paintings people hold, gaze at or are revealed by pale white candles and burning lamps.

The idea of permanent prayer through the agency of objects is found in the candles lit in churches, in the perpetually burning lamps (chōmyōtō) of Buddhist Japan, and in Tibetan prayer flags, with sacred formulas painted on them, which wave in the wind around temples, houses, and villages.

Kerosene burning lamps remain the sole source of lighting for some 600 million people living without electricity in Africa.

Drunk, she falls into a burning oil lamp.

Initially the primary product was kerosene, which proved to be a more abundant, cleaner-burning lamp oil of more consistent quality than whale oil or animal fat.

There was no light left in the cathedral now, save an electric chandelier high overhead and the ever-burning lamp in front of the Sacrament.