"Lit" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his sleepless night, Desmond had scarcely spirit enough to look with curiosity on his fellow prisoners when the shed was faintly lit by the morning sun. But he saw that the eight men, all natives, were lying on crude charpoys {mat beds} along the wall, each man chained to a staple like his own. One of the men was awake; and, catching Desmond's ...
— In Clive's Command - A Story of the Fight for India • Herbert Strang
... her too well to dread The sweet, the stately, the beautiful dead— He lit his lamp, and took the key, And turn'd ...
— Threads of Grey and Gold • Myrtle Reed
... dazed, looked with surprise through the workshop doors, nearly all open on account of the heat, at a swarming of upraised arms, of blackened faces, of machinery in motion in a cave-like darkness, dull and deep, lit up by brief flashes of ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern -- Volume 11 • Various
... in his time he washed his father's creed away with blood, and lit sacrificial fires ...
— Fruit-Gathering • Rabindranath Tagore
... and Lawyer Ed drove homeward, down the moon-lit length of the Pine Road; they were surprised to hear ahead of them, within a few rods of Peter Fiddle's house, the sound of singing. Very wavering and uncertain, now loud and high, now dropping to a ...
— The End of the Rainbow • Marian Keith
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