night-lamp

For seven years I have never gone to bed without going first to see the light of her night-lamp, or her shadow on the window curtains.

Honorine 2007

For seven years I have never gone to bed without going first to see the light of her night-lamp, or her shadow on the window curtains.

Honorine 2007

The truth is, though she had been lying quite still and silent, she had not been asleep one instant, but had been looking at the night-lamp in the chimney, and had been thinking of Pen for hours and hours.

The History of Pendennis 2006

By the pale night-lamp he could see her sweet, pale face — the purple eyelids were fringed and closed, and one round arm, smooth and white, lay outside of the coverlet.

Vanity Fair 2006

Also that night, and for two or three nights afterwards, a bright starlike light, which was clearly visible from the partial darkness of the room, in which there was only a night-lamp burning, appeared several times directly I over its head, where it remained for some moments, and then slowly moved in the direction of the door, where it disappeared.

Contributions to All the Year Round 2004

Varney officiously assisted his lord to bed, and placed a massive silver night-lamp, with a short sword, on a marble table which stood close by the head of the couch.

Kenilworth 2004

The table near the bed was overturned on the floor, and the glass and the night-lamp both lie smashed to pieces on the carpet.

Madame Midas 2003

Then, by the uncertain light of her night-lamp, she thought she saw the door open slowly and noiselessly.

The Honor of the Name �mile Gaboriau 2003

In the meantime, by the light of my night-lamp, I saw the stranger enter my room through two doors which were fast bolted.

Household Tales 2003

When I entered the bedchamber, and softly approached the bedside by the dim flicker of the night-lamp, my wife was asleep.

The Woman in White 2003