Sentence examples for petroleum lamp from inspiring English sources

"As I clung to the corner of the seat, listening to the singsong of the small bells that danced under the horse's neck and watching the dim lights of the small petroleum lamp that swung under the roof eave of the carriage," he wrote, "I panicked at the thought of some tiger suddenly surging from the roadside bush".

[Piero] Saporiti, the Time-Life correspondent in Spain, told me once that you had used petroleum lamps.

Born in 1928, she spent a lifetime accumulating period furnishings from the 1890's in Germany: "petroleum lamps and vases, gramophones, records, matchboxes, telephones, inkwells, polyphons, pictures, credenzas, bureaus and, of course, clocks".

In the first scene of the play, Charlotte appears before us in her family house, which she has turned into a museum for her collection of records, gramophones, petroleum lamps, clocks, and other bric-a-brac of the Gay Nineties.

Jacob opened his first store in 1896 to sell stoves and petroleum lamps.

Blokker Holding traces its roots back to 1896 when founder Jacob Blokker opened the first store, which sold stoves and petroleum lamps.

Before 1879, when the light-bulb was invented, humans were exposed to only insignificant amounts of low-intensity light at night from sources such as candles and petroleum lamps.

The liver of a basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) yields 80 to 600 gallons (about 300 to 2,300 litres) of oil, which was used in lamps until petroleum products replaced animal oils for illumination.

The unmanned lighthouse originally housed a Trotter-Lindberg lamp which burned petroleum spirit or lythene.

The incidence of injuries is largely associated with the use of stoves and lamps; and from kerosene or petroleum as well as butane, liquid petroleum gas and alcohol.

In the 18th and 19th centuries the oil was used to fuel lamps before it was replaced by petroleum.