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Their next problem was to get hold of a paraffin lamp.

The large room was lit by a paraffin lamp on a table.

Candles were another loss, and we had only one paraffin lamp.

He let them into the shack and lit the paraffin lamp.

The lead pipe again, and then an overturned paraffin lamp.

In 1904, the burner was replaced by a paraffin lamp.

Paraffin lamps are used to light the church, since there is no electricity connection.

People used paraffin lamps for light in their homes.

It would be paraffin lamps and candles for some time, she suspected.

The light came from a paraffin lamp, subsequently converted to electricity.

The light was originally a paraffin lamp with red and white reflectors.

The gas The stairs were lightened with a a paraffin lamp.

My wife and I had another row about naked candles, or it may have been a paraffin lamp.

Initially the houses had no sanitation and were lit by paraffin lamps.

The light source switched to a paraffin lamp and the structure was renovated.

Preen shot the bolts on the door and turned out the paraffin lamp.

The torch and the paraffin lamp were a giveaway.

The huts generally had an earth floor, and were lit by either candles or paraffin lamps.

Now there was nothing but a desk, a green-shaded paraffin lamp, and a couple of chairs.

The room was lit by candles, as Rose disliked the smell of his paraffin lamp.

Paraffin lamps cast pools of sputtering light on the wet streets.

It was nearly dark, though the room within was brightly lit by a paraffin lamp.

More like a lantern or a paraffin lamp.

Joe took a match and lighted the paraffin lamps, then sat on the floor beside the sofa.

The pick of the inventions was, however, a paraffin lamp for using the incandescent mantle.

It's enough to make one long for the age of kerosene lamps.

She was in bed reading by the light of a kerosene lamp.

I was in the dark, but after a couple of days the guard gave me a kerosene lamp.

I want no electricity in my house, just kerosene lamps.

In 1873 the light was updated with a kerosene lamp.

And there were small lights, the color of kerosene lamps.

But she's been wanting to try out kerosene lamps for a while.

Because it was still dark in the room, he lit the kerosene lamp.

The kerosene lamp seemed much brighter when seen this way.

Other than that the whole place is lit up with kerosene lamps at night.

Only the kerosene lamp stamps the above as having been written more than 100 years ago.

The only light was from a dim kerosene lamp standing on a low table.

The flickering kerosene lamp was probably the first light she'd seen in weeks.

But kerosene lamps, at best, were poor things; not like electricity.

A single kerosene lamp in the hallway provided the only light at night.

They were eventually displaced by the kerosene lamp in about 1850.

We sell it in the shop to go with various kerosene lamps.

The men found a pair of kerosene lamps and lit them.

It was instead used for some kerosene lamps and stoves.

In 1868, a new lighthouse was built, with kerosene lamps.

The kids studied at night with the help of faint kerosene lamps.

He closed the door, just to be on the safe side, and picked up the kerosene lamp.

A dim light, probably from a kerosene lamp, showed through the side window.

Later, kerosene lamps were added to holders along the walls.

So far we've been relying on our little and a dozen kerosene lamps.