Sentences with phrase «burning oil lamps»

Hides or mats were probably hung at the inner door to conserve the heat generated by burning oil lamps.

While overlooking the fact that some fat was used for burning oil lamps, VLC proponents claim that Eskimos discarded lean meats, or fed it to their dogs (who would apparently therefore not be ketogenic).

Schlesinger transforms things in a playful and witty way, sometimes with an air of danger but above all in a poetic fashion to create lyrical sculptures and objects: a lighter becomes a burning oil lamp; two bent pencils in conjoined existence; or small flames emerge from bicycle valves.

«During Hanukkah, we eat a lot of fried foods to celebrate the miracle of the burning oil lamp lasting eight days instead of one while the Holy Temple in ancient Jerusalem was under siege by Syrian - Greek emperor Antiochus.

Not exact matches

Five of the girls will be admitted to the marriage feast, but to the rest, who failed to bring sufficient oil to keep their lamps burning.

A non-Orthodox Christian is also said to examine the edicule (a small structure surrounding the tomb) to make sure no oil lamps have been left burning inside that the patriarch could use to light his candles.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

People used to be awake at night by candlelight, then by bedside lamp, and now we use our phones, laptops, and tablets to burn the midnight oil.

Think of light linked only to fire — oil lamps, candles — and then see it burning in a light bulb.

The Temple was recovered after a civil war and the oil lamps had to be kept burning.

Get a salt lamp for soft light and healing properties, burn calming incense before bed (and sex), spray your linens with a hypoallergenic lavender oil.