Droplight

Instead of putting the Monte up on the lift, Tommy (“Tommy the Temper,” as some of our regulars called him) kicked over a creeper and rolled under the car with a droplight. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They sat in the library after dinner and read the evening papers together under the droplight; while the younger people went into the drawing-room near by and talked. ❋ Unknown (2000)

The droplight over the music and the flare of the fire leaped out of the darkness like medallions. ❋ Leona Dalrymple (N/A)

Then the never-to-be-forgotten coterie of the brightest women of the day under the shaded droplight, in the long winter evenings! ❋ T. C. DeLeon (N/A)

Hollister stood in the middle of his room, staring at the door without seeing the door, without seeing the bulky shadow his body cast on the wall in the pale glow of a single droplight. ❋ Bertrand W. Sinclair (1926)

Hinton made an attractive still life under the droplight. ❋ Christopher Morley (1923)

Some of the old Barrett furniture was too large for the place, but what she could use Nancy arranged with exquisite taste: fairly dancing with pleasure over the sitting room, where her chair and Bert's were in place, and the little droplight lighted on the little table. ❋ Kathleen Thompson Norris (1923)

The mother and father sat beneath a hot, gas droplight in the small "library"; Mrs. Madison with an evening newspaper, her husband with "King Solomon's Mines"; and Laura, after crisply declining an urgent request from Hedrick to play, had disappeared upstairs. ❋ Unknown (1912)

Immediately I turned toward Julianna, but she, instead of coming forward in the manner of one ready to say good-night, idly turned the pages of a book on the old table, and then, walking across the room, stood near the chessboard with the pink glow of the droplight upon her face, and looked up at me, saying as plainly as words, "Stay." ❋ Richard Washburn Child (1908)

On the whole, Kenneth decided, the study, seen in the soft radiance of the droplight, had a nice "homey" look. ❋ Ralph Henry Barbour (1907)

The mother and father sat beneath a hot, gas droplight in the small "library"; Mrs. Madison with an evening newspaper, her husband with "King Solomon's Mines"; and ❋ Booth Tarkington (1907)

Tim continued alone until the droplight was knocked to the floor at the cost of one green shade. ❋ Ralph Henry Barbour (1907)

He lighted the droplight, found a magazine several months old and sat down to wait. ❋ Ralph Henry Barbour (1907)

A maroon-coloured cushion hurtled toward him, narrowly missing the green shade of the droplight on the study table and, thanks to prompt and instinctive action on the part of Tim, sailed on, serene and unimpeded, into the corridor. ❋ Ralph Henry Barbour (1907)

Only the masters were exempted, and Tim noticed as he passed Mr. Daley's study that the droplight was turned low by one of those cunning dimming attachments which Tim had always envied the instructor the possession of. ❋ Ralph Henry Barbour (1907)

He stirred the beads about on his palm, and presently swung them under the droplight. ❋ Harold MacGrath (1901)

He was sitting by the table reading, the radiance of a green droplight falling over the litter of papers and across his shoulder to the page of his book. ❋ Geraldine Bonner (1900)

Setting these on the marble-topped table beside the droplight she sat and ate. ❋ Geraldine Bonner (1900)