Sentence examples for lamp burning from inspiring English sources

It was the only light visible anywhere, a single lamp burning in a window on the ground floor of the wing nearest the lake.

He moves his laptop from the bedroom that serves as an office to an end table in the living room, inserts the DVD, and turns off the only lamp burning in his apartment.

The ventilation is excellent, especially since we rigged up the air sail, which sends a whole winter's cold in through the ventilator; yet in spite of this we sit here warm and comfortable, with only a lamp burning.

Establishing friendly relations with the great Kublai Khan, they eventually returned to Europe as his ambassadors, carrying letters asking the pope to send Kublai 100 intelligent men "acquainted with the Seven Arts"; they also bore gifts and were asked to bring back oil from the lamp burning at the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

And I often feel as though I'm taking part in a much larger conversation, one that reaches back as far as Athens and has kept the lamp burning in many windows down the centuries, wherever young writers have gone for advice, for inspiration, for "correction" and -- of course -- for love.

The house was silent, almost dark; the one lamp burning was in the dining room, a room we hardly ever used, preferring to eat in the creaturely warmth of the kitchen.

At night, we can see the lamps burning in our brothers' and sisters' homes".

Inside, we saw ranks of butter lamps burning before golden Buddhas on an altar flanked by gaily painted shelves of sacred texts bound in bright silk.

The four-plume Victorian fountain with huge gas lamps burning at its corners is said to evoke a predecessor that stood at the site between 1871 and 1920.

The igloo was really an extension of the self — shoulder blades of snow and backbone of ice, beneath which a family slept, swathed in thick animal fur, beside one or two small lamps burning blubber.

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