But my rushlight is drooping -- so trusting diurnally. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 27, 1841] Reference
A rushlight stood beside him, and apparently he was reading. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
‘There’s not a lamp as big as a rushlight in the whole lane. From Wordnik.com. [A Changed Man] Reference
Rune fumbled out a rushlight and handed it to him; he lit it at his splinter. From Wordnik.com. [The Lark And The Wren]
She stood up and reached for a rushlight, uncertain whether to shout for help. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
As he reached it, it opened, and Cuthbert Whitehead stepped out, carrying a rushlight. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
The woman held the coin to the rushlight, then squeaked with delight and threw herself upon Conan. From Wordnik.com. [Conan Of The Isles]
As a pale white rushlight burns in the sun, that love seemed now, compared with this great sweet flame. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference
Light of the Universe yonder; and reconcile yourself with the idea that you are only a farthing rushlight. From Wordnik.com. [Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo] Reference
QUOTATION: History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. From Wordnik.com. [John Buchan (1875-1940)] Reference
He listened for a few moments; the house was perfectly quiet; he extinguished his rushlight, and opened his bedroom door. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches by Boz] Reference
There was a light at the bottom of the steps, a feeble, flickering rushlight, and a great bulk of a man peered up in its illumination. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Sword]
He stuck the rushlight up on what was left of a rock shelf at the back of the house, and they set about clearing a space to bed down in. From Wordnik.com. [The Lark And The Wren]
On each side were two rows of burning lights of all sizes; the greatest as large as a tower, and the smallest no larger than a rushlight. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference
Here are stocks, horn glasses, drinking vessels, rushlight holders, leather bottels, and one of those quaint wooden machines for teaching babies to walk. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
Rosalba, she is as if she had never been at all; her little farthing rushlight of a soul and reputation having burnt out, and left neither wick nor tallow. From Wordnik.com. [The Paris Sketch Book] Reference
He smiled, but it was more like a wince, and as the rushlight fell past his hood and illuminated his features, Maerad saw that he was gray with exhaustion. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
The farthing rushlight of his reason leapt and expired. From Wordnik.com. [Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete] Reference
'Butter and eggs! old Richie, and about as much fire as a rushlight. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference
It was the aim of Rembrandt to paint the foulest things he could see -- by rushlight. From Wordnik.com. [On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference
There were dances and dinners, and weddings so brilliant that Marie De Ber's was only a little rushlight in comparison. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Girl in Old Detroit] Reference
If they have, it is strange for them to talk of rushlight sacrifices whilst they are bathed in the sunlight of the Divine. From Wordnik.com. [Standards of Life and Service] Reference
Contrast our love at its height with His -- a drop to an ocean, a poor little flickering rushlight held up beside the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI] Reference
I would sooner blunder through the dark by myself a thousand times than light my rushlight at the lamp of that Phlegethonian Papce!. From Wordnik.com. [The Caxtons — Complete] Reference
A rushlight seen shining through a night of mist upon a desolate mountain-side might have meant as little or as much to eyes that saw it. From Wordnik.com. [The Dop Doctor] Reference
"I wish Larry did not tell us such horrid stories," said she, as she laid the rushlight on the table; "I'll be dhramin 'all night o' them.". From Wordnik.com. [Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes] Reference
Evidently two individuals, the one with a lamp and the other with a candle or rushlight, were making a careful examination of the building. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of Cloomber] Reference
She confessed many a fault and shortcoming that none knew but herself, and most earnestly besought help that "her little rushlight might shine bright.". From Wordnik.com. [The Wide, Wide World] Reference
He himself -- Throckmorton himself -- loved Kat Howard with a love compared to which the magister's was a rushlight such as you bought fifty for a halfpenny. From Wordnik.com. [Privy Seal His Last Venture] Reference
But she knew what she ought to do: she prayed long, humbly, earnestly, that "her little rushlight might shine bright;" and her aunt had no cause to complain of her. From Wordnik.com. [The Wide, Wide World] Reference
Will-o'-the-wisp, in the great sun that illumines half a world, or the farthing rushlight by which the ragged student strains his eyes, -- still the same flower of the elements!. From Wordnik.com. [My Novel — Complete] Reference
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