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Synonyms for rushlight


Grammar : Noun



Définition of rushlight

  • As in candle : noun taper
Example sentences :
  • The rushlight had burned out and the cell was impenetrably dark.
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • When I had done, Mrs Wilson took a rushlight and led the way.
  • Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
  • After shining feebly like a rushlight for about two months, it went out in smoke.
  • Extract from : « Moon Lore » by Timothy Harley
  • Nothing can be better in a than the effect of light from the rushlight on the floor.
  • Extract from : « Pickwickian Manners and Customs » by Percy Fitzgerald
  • Would they wake with a jump, as I did, if Jael flashed the Rushlight in their faces?
  • Extract from : « Last Words » by Juliana Horatia Ewing
  • Oh, I wish I'd never gone to look at them with the Rushlight!
  • Extract from : « Last Words » by Juliana Horatia Ewing
  • A rushlight stood beside him, and apparently he was reading.
  • Extract from : « Sea-Dogs All! » by Tom Bevan
  • It was the aim of Rembrandt to paint the foulest things he could see—by rushlight.
  • Extract from : « On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) » by John Ruskin
  • Mahomet went to the mountain; and it is insolence in a rushlight to rival the moon.
  • Extract from : « Three Courses and a Dessert » by Anonymous
  • Not until we were in the parlour and the rushlight was burning did he ask how we had fared.
  • Extract from : « The Forest Farm » by Peter Rosegger

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