flame lamp

The flame lamps went out, leaving him in complete darkness.

In one corner, he could just see one of the standing flame lamps.

Before the invention of the electric light around 1900, miners used flame lamps to provide illumination.

Many spans high swung its head and its blazing eyes were like unto flaming lamps.

Venport blinked to adjust his vision to the dim light generated by flaming lamps mounted on the walls.

Open flame lamps could easily ignite the gas, so steel mills were often used to provide weak illumination from sparks[?

From a concealed atom- flame lamp in the lofty dome, two projectors shot stabbin; rays against the golden disks.

The engraved plates and scales of their ceremonial bronze armor gleamed like gold in the light of countless flaming lamps.

Although electronic gas detectors are now used widely in all coal mines, flame lamps are still used extensively for their ease and simplicity of operation.

Its headboard has two naked cupids, while the gilt bronze balustrade has flaming lamps, symbols of ardent passion.

Tapestries hung from the bulkheads, flame lamps stood from the floor, lighting the deeply colored room with a somber and quieting glow.

The plaque reads "A previously burnt tunnel was temporarily being repaired when the roof collapsed and pockets of unknown gas were ignited by open flame lamps."

The small streets were sloppy and full of pools, which reflected the flaming lamps irregularly, and by accident, like fragments of some other and fallen world.

The Hefner lamp, or in German Hefnerkerze, is a flame lamp used in photometry that burns amyl acetate.

Immediately, the flame lamps rose from their slumber, casting shadows on the walls and turn- ing Julian's dark rich hair into a jet cap ringed by a halo of gold.

With help from Thomas Edison the company was formed in 1914 to develop a battery-powered cap lamp for miners to help prevent methane-related explosions caused by open flame lamps.

Open flame lamps could ignite flammable gases which collected in mines, causing explosions and so safety lamps were developed to enclose the flame and prevent it from igniting the surrounding atmosphere.

Garak would not have wanted to gasp, to gape at the lithe sculpture before him, the smooth chest lit with the yellowish flame lamps that he had lit earlier in the evening, turned by them to polished bronze.

When he at last knew him- self again, the flame lamps were nearly dark, and his Lady was in a state similar to his own - asleep on top of him, covered in her own sweat and his, exhausted.

For many long minutes, they sat like that, he unsure and nervous with anticipation, she silent and knowing, enjoying the gentle curve of his back and how his skin was lit by the faded flame lamps, their glowing topaz light pouring over him like melted butter.

Idly, his eyes began to roam the room - over the bed, the tapestries serene with the voices of ages speaking silently from them, over the few other articles of furniture, the flame lamps, which had lit them last time . . . His eyes fell on something at the foot of the bed.