Sentences with phrase «many oil lamps»

The garden restaurant is run entirely without electricity, lit only by oil lamps and the massive wood oven in which Werner chars steaks, agave pork ribs and pumpkins gathered from nearby farms.

Cleaner, safer and more convenient than candles, torches, oil lamps and gaslights, the bulb's widespread adoption was inevitable.

The official who oversaw that airlift noted, «When the sun went down, they would light oil lamps and they would continue until they couldn't keep their eyes open.»

To put the matter simply: how many oil lamps or coins do we have from the first century featuring Apollonius of Tyana?

The word Diwali itself means «festival of lamps», because houses and public spaces are decorated with scores of small oil lamps in honor of the goddess Lakshmi, to whom Hindus pray to for success and wealth.

Ten young women set out with oil lamps to meet a bridegroom to escort him to the bride's home for the wedding.

I'm fond of this cozy old sofa and that oil lamp.

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.

He replied: «In this ceremony we are offering created fire and from it comes uncreated light, by the grace of the Holy Spirit... before the ceremony begins, a kantila — a little oil lamp — is placed, already lit, on the tomb.

Two, one to change the lightbulb and the other to light an oil lamp to see that it was changed.

He watched an oil lamp swinging from the ceiling.

These small clay oil lamps are known as diyas.

Both the oil lamps and the rangolis are used to try and encourage Lakshmi to come inside the home, and of course to welcome guests..

So on Sunday morning, in a great city church, folk are to be found who, amid the glorious architecture, stirring music and highly paid preaching of a metropolitan cathedral, are lonely — lonely, it may be, for a wooden meeting house on a country hillside, lighted by oil lamps, with an organ that squeaks every time the boy pumps it, and a man in the pulpit who can not preach for sour apples, but where they have friends.

At Home you needs to stock some common medicine, kit box, must be have candles, matches, oil lamp, torch light, batteries, extra warm cloths, diapers, hand gloves, always keep at home couple of gallons drinking water and some dry foods [like - biscuits] that don't require cooking.

Visitors to Old Sturbridge Village will get a rare chance find out as they tour the historic Village lit only by candles, oil lamps, lanterns, and firelight during the museum's «Evening of...

With light and heat coming only from candles, oil lamps, lanterns, and fireplaces, 19th - century families gathered around the fire and played music, games, or listened quietly as someone read aloud by candlelight.

Visitors to Old Sturbridge Village will get a rare chance find out as they tour the historic Village lit only by candles, oil lamps, lanterns, and firelight during the museum's «Evening of Illumination» set for Saturday, November 8.

The names of famous gladiators adorned common household items like oil lamps.

Whereas there were likely widespread fires as shown in the film, they would have been caused by toppled oil lamps rather than flaming projectiles.

Digging one other domestic structure and three rock - cut shaft tombs, the researchers discovered installations for cooking and storage, occupational remains such as pottery and animal bones, an iron sword, ceramic oil lamps and human bones intermixed with personal adornments and jewelry.

If you take a tour through the Lehman Caves today, you can see where Cal and his brothers wrote their names on the cave ceiling in 1927, using the smoke from their oil lamps.

This oil was used for everything from cosmetics to oil lamps to industrial lubricants.

You can get the tutorial and lots of recipe ideas for your oil lamp here.

You can add different essential oils, and a wick to create a fabulous - smelling botanical aromatherapy oil lamp.

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).

I'm saying that Grok didn't have CANDLES, so you won't catch me using candles or oil lamps.

Good for oil lamps, perhaps, but I wouldn't eat it.

Nobody said you had to pay for oil lamps and oil or books and freshly laundered clothes, but you would feel deprived if you didn't, so you work a little harder to give your family all the good things that life has to offer.

Every time I reach to decorate my home I want to include the old oil lamp I found in the basement.

This vintage oil lamp is simply beautiful with its clean lines and adds to the general decor ambiance.

They are not really candles, but rather oil lamps.

Obviously the nautical survival stuff should be the most compelling, and yet I as more taken with two men sitting by an oil lamp discussing their lives.

The torch - lit Rembrandt lighting of the first few episodes has, thanks to the profusion of oil lamps, given way to a more even, golden illumination, a visual analog for how social and technological progress removes some of the darkness from life, yet leaves the essential human drama — the collision of individuals stumbling from cradle to grave — untouched.

The Ford Model T used carbide lamps for headlamps and oil lamps for tail lamps.

And if I'd closed my eyes I could've seen what the building had been forty or fifty years before that, back when I was a young woman: a screen door slamming shut, oil lamps lit and sputtering black smoke, dusty horses hitched to the posts out front where the iceman unloaded every Wednesday afternoon, the last stop on his route before he headed up out of the holler, the bed of his truck an inch deep with cold water.

I was not thinking of that danger — for I make it a habit never to worry about matters that are beyond my control — nor of the difficulty of trying to keep my footing while the door of the cabin rose and fell and the oil lamps swung wildly on their brackets — for mine is the sort of mind that rises above such things — but perhaps these considerations did affect me more than I realized, giving a pessimistic cast to my normally cheerful...

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

Water running from every tap, hot or cold as you wish; lights at the flick of a switch, day and night, no need for oil lamps; ovens to cook on that don't need anyone to go and fetch gas cylinders from the bazaar.

For example, if you're writing Moby Dick (no kidding), you can include expanded notes about the history of whaling, including maps of routes to now obsolete hunting grounds, period advertisements for whale oil lamps, and other real - life elements that expand the reader's experience.

I borrowed two oil lamps from neighbors and placed them near the bedroll.

I was not thinking of that danger — for I make it a habit never to worry about matters that are beyond my control — nor of the difficulty of trying to keep my footing while the door of the cabin rose and fell and the oil lamps swung wildly on their brackets — for mine is the sort of mind that rises above such things — but perhaps these considerations did affect me more than I realized, giving a pessimistic cast to my normally cheerful reflections.

My mother was lighting an oil lamp, which she placed near the bedroll.

His assistant, who was holding an oil lamp, jumped to move out of his way.

One of the peasants came forward with an oil lamp to facilitate identification of the strange object.

Her family is desperately poor, but her life is full of simple pleasures, like raising her black - and - white speckled goat, and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp.

I have a vision of the article's author sitting in a rough hewn chair by a fire, an oil lamp at his elbow as he writes his article using a quill dipped into an ink pot.

In what seems to be the final days of their already strained marriage, his wife is presented with a strange gift - an old oil lamp.

If your electric is out for awhile and you use alternate sources of light, never leave an open flame from candles, oil lamps, etc., unattended around your animals.

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.