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hurricane lamp

noun as in oil lamp

Weak match

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Six years later, she progressed to a little shack lit by hurricane lamps, before the Lims opened an eatery called Palm Beach Seafood in 1963.

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Before the auction, Jones had made a list of the items he wanted: The hurricane lamps.

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I took the small hurricane lamp off my bed table, went to the kitchen, and lit it with a match.

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Somebody lit a hurricane lamp and Richard wondered if the Nigerian bomber hovering above could see it, wondered how many Nigerian bombers were hovering above.

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Overscale hurricane lamps, chunky straw place mats, wooden cake stands and Easter egg-pastel curtains are of part of the new look.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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