Lamps

A Scot writing about another Scot where sticking posters on lamps is prefectly normal. ❋ Norfolk Blogger (2009)

Three set-in lamps, which come with a 10-year warranty, emit intense heat and light. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Just as in other countries, the miracle of the long-burning oil in the temple lamps is commemorated not only with potato latkes, but with a variety of sweet fried foods. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Pendent in front of John Ziegler's face, attached to the same type of hinged, flexible stand as certain student desk lamps, is a Shure-brand broadcast microphone that is sheathed in a gray foam filtration sock to soften popped p's and hissed sibilants. ❋ Unknown (2005)

There were porcelain lamps in the shape of ginger jars, round and Oriental, and with none of the usual dust on the bulbs, because it was Jocelyn's house. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Confronting the table on which are the butter-lamps is a long, low bench covered with red cloth, prepared for the lama dignitaries who are to come to worship the image. ❋ Unknown (1901)

She had been built for canvas and oil-lamps, and this new thingumajig that kept her nose snoring at eight knots when normally she was able to boil along at ten, and these unblinking things they called lamps (that neither smoked nor smelled), irked and threatened to ruin her temper. ❋ Harold MacGrath (1901)

Dick's old one, opened them, and shut the end one, which is too cold, and put in lamps, stoves, and stores and comforts of all kinds; in fact partly refurnished. ❋ William Henry Burton Wilkins (1897)

Although it was not a dark evening, the servants commenced bringing in lamps earlier than usual. ❋ Mary Anne (1871)

There was a profusion of evergreens, small tin lamps dripping with oil, and sloping tallow candles shedding grease upon the board. ❋ Frances Erskine Inglis (1843)

'For my part,' continued he, taking down one of the Argand lamps from the chimney-piece, and trimming it, 'I would rather a hundred to one snuff up the oil of this cursed lamp.' ❋ Unknown (1801)

a string of lamps from a Greek pillar by means of a nail, and their subsequent alarm when their nail was washed by the owners of the pillar; ❋ Unknown (1905)

In the living room I have my mother’s secretary and her grandmother clock, her end tables, her gaming table, and one of a pair of beautiful porcelain lamps she received as a wedding gift early in the 1930s. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Bamboo itself is one of the most ample and cheapest materials found in Colombia, and by using this as the base material, the lamps are almost completely biodegradable (sans the electronics) and can be locally sourced, making for easy manufacturability by the native population. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This street just happens to not have any real trees in addition to the lamps, which is unfortunate. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Admittedly, I do think the lamps are aesthetically cool (especially the wall lamp made from the head tube), although those two are really the only pieces, IMO. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The lamps are a special treat in that they can be used as a lamp shade or luminary. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We are not currently suffering from a shortage of whale oil, for example, even though whale oil once was, not long ago, used everywhere in lamps. ❋ Unknown (2006)