Sentences with phrase «in lamplight»

Screen is easy on the eyes in lamplight or bright sunlight.

At five in the morning someone banging on the door and shouting, her husband, John, leaping out of bed, grabbing his rifle, and Roscoe at the same time roused from the backhouse, his bare feet pounding: Mattie hurriedly pulled on her robe, her mind prepared for the alarm of war, but the heart stricken that it would finally have come, and down the stairs she flew to see through the open door in the lamplight, at the steps of the portico, the two horses, steam rising from their flanks, their heads lifting, their eyes wild, the driver a young darkie with rounded shoulders, showing stolid patience even in this, and the woman standing in her carriage no one but her aunt Letitia Pettibone of McDonough, her elderly face drawn in anguish, her hair a straggled mess, this woman of such fine grooming, this dowager who practically ruled the season in Atlanta standing up in the equipage like some hag of doom, which indeed she would prove to be.

bagging, pooching, your fuzzy blue socks flashing, as night descends, the two of you untying obsolete routines, unloosening gravity's old malice, holding one another in the lamplight, shooby, romping, dancing, rising, floating clear of death.

Not exact matches

I have comfort books (Anne of Green Gables), comfort food (beef stew and bread), and I have comfort television: Saturday night and we watch Hockey Night in Canada by lamplight.

I pray for candles and for lamplight, for good books and for movies, for long walks in the darkness lit only by street lights or stars.

I was afraid to miss the light Wednesday night when I snapped these photos, but they turned out so interesting and different under the lamplight dusk of evening and I caught some beautiful blue shadows in these shots.

by Walter Chaw The danger is getting lost in fantasy, of being consumed by the lunar flame of lamplight filtered through celluloid.

The colors are muted and somber with a dipped - in - amber look (the scenes in the Irishman's bar have the golden look of candles and lamplight creating pools of illumination in the night) and the image looks softened, as if seen through the light haze of history.

Outside is the cold dead of 3:00 a.m. on a late - November night in Kansas, but inside is lamplight, the warm smell of a newborn, and Adam's wife, Saskia, beautiful Saskia, who a few minutes before had asked her husband if he could watch the baby so she could get a little sleep.

At such times, his fear would mount so rapidly that all he could do was lift the mosquito net and climb down from the bed and patrol the hut, restlessly, looking under the table, opening the cupboard in the corner, peering into all the dark corners where the lamplight could not reach.

She was the fourth of five children, born on a cold January night, by lamplight (power cut), in Shahjahanabad, the walled city of Delhi.

Lamplight shone in windows, embers glowed on roof hearths, and from the top of the tower beside the harbor gate the great watch fire burned its message out to sea.

Rolf just happened to have a trove of love letters on hand, penned by lamplight in Laos.

The letter is framed with an allusion to an oil lamp, but I'm pretty sure I didn't really write it by lamplight; I think I just liked the haunting glow of the oil lamps after dark, and I wanted to convey what it felt like to sit in the dim radiance of that isolated valley.

Featuring five in - depth mysteries to solve, full voice acting, and very striking pixel art, Lamplight City is one to keep an eye out for later this year.

Painted in 1769, An Academy by Lamplight sold for # 6.3 m at Sotheby's in December — a record for the artist's work.

Her mother, in her wheelchair, glues together a collage by lamplight.

In Bacon the figure is almost always isolated and pitched against an unforgiving interior lit only by a bare light bulb (one could write an interesting history of the light bulb in art, tracking its trajectory from, say, Van Gogh to Vuillard's lamplight, to the desolate hanging bulbs of Bacon and Philip GustonIn Bacon the figure is almost always isolated and pitched against an unforgiving interior lit only by a bare light bulb (one could write an interesting history of the light bulb in art, tracking its trajectory from, say, Van Gogh to Vuillard's lamplight, to the desolate hanging bulbs of Bacon and Philip Gustonin art, tracking its trajectory from, say, Van Gogh to Vuillard's lamplight, to the desolate hanging bulbs of Bacon and Philip Guston).

In the first episode of the climate series «Years of Living Dangerously,» David Letterman, at left, talks with Indian children about studying by lamplight.

Unesco personnel who knew the islands traveled into the camps, and in groups of ones and twos and impromptu gatherings lit by lamplight, they explained in local languages the science behind what was going on underfoot.

This sounds a bit like my parents, living in the forest with no internet or TV, chopping firewood for their cookstove, and eating their meals by lamplight.

One evening, beneath a warm lamplight, my grandfather recounted his experiences in the Korean War.