Sentence examples for flickering lamp from inspiring English sources

When it reached the thirtieth person in the chain, Olivia Cucinotta, of Brooklyn, age fifteen, coherence still prevailed: "Shivering style, flickering lamp".

Late in the evening, under a swinging, flickering lamp, Salman Rushdie and Peter Carey, among others, read selections from Estrada's fiction.

If you're a Buddhist — I am not — you know that the material world is a phantom or a dream, "a flash of lightning in a summer cloud, a flickering lamp," as the Buddha puts it in the Diamond Sutra.

KF: Here's a line of Churchill's: "History, with it's flickering lamp, stumbles down the trail to the past".

Finally at 9 o'clock she drove off, leaving me alone with one flickering lamp.

Lama Pema whispered the preamble of every sutra — "This is what I heard at one time" — and then its opening phrase: "Like a shimmering star, or a flickering lamp".

"Here and there giant flowers grew, glowing with a peculiar light like flickering lamps, and further in among the shadows moved tiny dots of cold green".

Bemelmans remains as gorgeous as ever, with its tufted leather banquettes; its tiny, shaded, flickering lamps on almost every table; and its whimsical mural of Central Park scenes by Ludwig Bemelmans, the illustrator of the Madeline books.

The ceremony took place at midnight; the headline in the Sunday Dispatch was "Sixty People Under Flickering Lamps In A Surrey Churchyard".

Mr. Romanek uses household objects to create striking images, like John Frusciante playing guitar in a room filled with flickering lamps.

The world seemed to pour into sight: spidery trees, fog, the flickering lamps strung along the bridge.