Sentence examples for lit by burning from inspiring English sources

The pilot and co-pilot decided to carry on and the plane was able to land on a skiway at the pole, lit by burning beacons, West said.

The Rajasthan sequence, lit by fires burning in tree trunks, is presented like a recollection of a distant Edenic past.

Darkness fell over the Palace of Westminster, and hundreds of young people danced around these convulsing figures, silhouetted against the dark blue gloaming, lit only by burning placards, and the night lights on Big Ben.

He contrasted that with the night of Aug. 27: "Now we had blankets, and the whole field was lit up by burning cars.

In a letter to Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop speaks of how a single word can have enormous power in a line of poetry and she uses the example of Baudelaire's "The Balcony": Les soirs illuminés par l'ardeur du charbon — or "Evenings lit up by burning coals".

Thomas Edison's bright idea of 1879 notwithstanding, many homes, until the second or third decade of the twentieth century, were lit by small flames burning in gas lamps.

Our meal was lit by a candle burning in clear liquid labeled "beef".

The setting: a room black from floor to ceiling, lit by low-burning lamps, with each guest's name engraved on a ­tombstone-like stela.

"Warm yourself around an authentic real open fire ceremonially lit each day by burning one of the famed local perjurer's novels," explains the helpful annotated map handed to each visitor, which also advertises the park as "the UK's most disappointing new visitor attraction".

He had sliced the side off the naptha can and managed to light a fire by burning oil in the open tin, and with that he lit the stove.

One sequence in an opera house was lit by 11 700lb chandeliers, each burning 40-60 candles.