lantern

Example Sentences

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Enter Constable and Watch, in rug gowns, bills, and dark lanthorns.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert

He exhorted them to make their lanthorns “bright and clear.”

From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Hindley, Charles

Hang out your lanthorns, trim your lights To save your days from knavish nights!

From One-Act Plays By Modern Authors by Various

But the two dim lanthorns in the lifeboat went on and on, the thunder of the surf on the wreck guiding them.

From The Haute Noblesse A Novel by Fenn, George Manville

Walls were tapped, chimneys examined, cupboards peered into, and the light of bull’s-eye lanthorns was made to startle spiders in many a dark corner.

From A Little World by Fenn, George Manville