The trouble w/ the great "unlighted" is that they tend to ride as if they are visible rather than riding defensively. From Wordnik.com. [Lookin' Good: Holiday Cycling Fashions] Reference
"Thy igloo is cold, thy lamp unlighted," Annadoah insisted. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Maiden] Reference
Club was unlighted, the first time since his arrival in Davao. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
An unlighted cigar was gripped between his short, stubby fingers. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
The lamps were left unlighted, and they made no effort to enter it. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen] Reference
The streets, though unlighted, were thronged with jostling multitudes. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference
He passed unlocked doors, but the green bulbs above them were unlighted. From Wordnik.com. [The Status Civilization] Reference
It was unlighted now, and he had trouble distinguishing it from the others. From Wordnik.com. [The Servant Problem] Reference
The holders are required to light the unlighted candle from the lighted one. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainments for Home, Church and School] Reference
The house was unlighted and the lower windows were covered with wooden shutters. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Noon] Reference
He mounted the ladder quickly, and peered into the dark of the unlighted recess. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Noon] Reference
It glittered wickedly upon the unlighted lamps of a car rolling rapidly toward him. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
Still smiling Violet stumbled up the unlighted stairs and reached her sitting-room. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle Girl] Reference
It had been raining for thirty-six hours, and as we stepped into the unlighted hut, my. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
The Spark lit, quivered, sunk, and flashed again; but the wood lay unlighted beneath it. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858] Reference
His gray, grim face was unlighted by even an attempt at a smile, as he shook hands with her. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace] Reference
He placed an unlighted candle in the lantern, and the two proceeded to the door of the jail. From Wordnik.com. [The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance] Reference
The sharp echoes flew out at him from every unlighted house, but not a human being was in sight. From Wordnik.com. [Riders of the Silences] Reference
He chewed his unlighted cigar in silence while the other sat back in his corner with his eyes closed. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Noon] Reference
The room she stepped into was unlighted, except from the hall beyond, but crossing both she came into. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls] Reference
Behind the kingly form there is a tower -- strength -- though there is the unlighted torch at the top. From Wordnik.com. [Cupology How to Be Entertaining] Reference
What of reassuring was there in the rudiments of an unlighted road across a desert of ugly waste lands?. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
The wall on the left (eastern) side shows a similar intermixture of styles in its three unlighted bays. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less] Reference
But in a few moments we had left the village behind us and were once more on the unlighted country roads. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
He came out into the hall which divided the rooms, and there saw a ladder which led into an unlighted attic. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Noon] Reference
His rooms were in a narrow, unlighted street just off the square, and Daimler himself opened the door to us. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
He was in the dark, his lamp unlighted, his motor running silently, and he had no further fear of discovery. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Wireless or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol] Reference
He took the unlighted cigar out of his mouth, looked at it, and absently reached in his pocket for a lighter. From Wordnik.com. [Unwise Child] Reference
I have gone long distances though its unlighted streets late at night, with as little sense of danger as in a New. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The place was unlighted except by the glow of the furnaces inside, and he did not clearly know what he was doing. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls] Reference
He held the tips of his fingers together, and leaned back in his chair, with an unlighted cigar gripped firmly in his jaws. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Woman] Reference
The thought flashed over him that if the plane turned over there in unlighted space, he would not be able to right it again. From Wordnik.com. [Battling the Clouds or, For a Comrade's Honor] Reference
Like a shadow she glided down the now unlighted stairway, and through the dark and silent hall, in the direction of the dining-room. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
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