Yan performed a curious little shrug, rather of the back than of the shoulders, and shuffled to the box which bore the smoky lamp.

With only that smoky lamp to shed light around the place, critical investigation was a matter of time and painstaking, although a general idea of the cavern was readily formed.

We looked intelligently into each other's faces in the beam of the smoky lamp.

Our own royal throne room, to give it a name it doesn't deserve, is hung with dark carpets and lit with ancient smoky lamps.

With every thump the smell of beeswax rose and mingled with the smell of the smoky lamp.

And then, by the light of the smoky lamp, he saw Marija who sat nearest him, shaking her head slowly.

She lifted them to me, and they were like smoky lamps.

"We have to go through here," he said, taking a smoky lamp from the niche beside the door.

Ahead of her, a smoky lamp guttered and went out.

And, as he looked at the baby, I saw his eyes squinting against the dull light of the smoky lamp.