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Familiar Quotations

Lamping

Without lamps, there would be no light.–The Breakfast Club

The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it.–John Joubert

What seem to us but dim funereal tapers, may be heaven's distant lamps.–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Use in Literature

Lamping

We got our lamps going, and put on our oilskins, ready for a hurricane.–Charles Morris (editor) in The San Francisco Calamity.

Like as not your friend, Professor Lamps, has got an equally good reason for keeping the peace.–Samuel Hopkins Adams in The Unspeakable Perk.

Not yet their glaring and malignant lamps Were shifted, though each feature chang'd beneath.–Dante Alighieri in The Divine Comedy, entire (tr H.F. Cary).

Under the tin box stood two Primus lamps, and now everyone will be able to understand why Hassel felt warm.–Roald Amundsen in The South Pole, vols 1 and 2.

Why, you should be as salt To season others with good document, Your lives as lamps to give the people light, As shepherds, not as wolves to spoil the flock.–Shakespeare Apocrypha in The Puritain Widow.

The wedding garment must be wrought; the lamps trimmed and burning.–T.S. Arthur in The Hand But Not the Heart.

A similar reasoning may be applied to lamps.–Charles Babbage in On the Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures.

Kabba Rega now minutely examined the lamps and glass shades.–Samuel White Baker in Ismailia.

• Preface v
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Lamping 1
• Use in Literature 2
• Lamping 2
• Lamping – "Being" 16
• Lamping – "Below" 17
• Lamping – "Bright" 17
• Lamping – "Carried" 19
• Lamping – "Ceiling" 19
• Lamping – "Change" 20
• Lamping – "Coloured" 21
• Lamping – "Came" 21
• Lamping – "Dark" 23
• Lamping – "Day" 25
• Lamping – "Doors" 27
• Lamping – "Electric" 28
• Lamping – "End" 29
• Lamping – "Evening" 30
• Lamping – "Eyes" 31
• Lamping – "Few" 33
• Lamping – "Fire" 34
• Lamping – "Form" 36
• Lamping – "Found" 37
• Lamping – "Full" 37
• Lamping – "Glowed" 38
• Lamping – "Great" 39
• Lamping – "Halls" 40
• Lamping – "Hours" 41
• Lamping – "Houses" 42
• Lamping – "Illuminated" 42
• Lamping – "Kept" 43
• Lamping – "Large" 43
• Lamping – "Lighted" 44
• Lamping – "Little" 50
• Lamping – "Looked" 51
• Lamping – "Makes" 53
• Lamping – "Man" 54
• Lamping – "Night" 56
• Lamping – "Oil" 59
• Lamping – "Old" 60
• Lamping – "Once" 61
• Lamping – "Opening" 61
• Lamping – "Pass" 62
• Lamping – "Place" 63
• Lamping – "Room" 65
• Lamping – "Ran" 67
• Lamping – "Silver" 68
• Lamping – "Sat" 69
• Lamping – "Soon" 70
• Lamping – "Stars" 70
• Lamping – "Street" 71
• Lamping – "Thought" 75
• Lamping – "Town" 76
• Lamping – "Walls" 76
• Lamping – "Windows" 77
• Lamping – "Yellow" 78
• Nonfiction Usage 79
• Patent Usage 79
• Bibliographic Usage 81
• Encyclopedic Usage 88
• Lexicographic Usage 93
• Index 117