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The greatest Spirit must be One, because two greatests are impossible, and He is good because good is better than evil, and the Greatest includes the Best." The seaman stared, as well he might, while the Eskimo spoke these words, gazing dreamily at the lamp-flame, as if he were communing with his own spirit rather than with his companion.
The eye must be 'single, directed to Him, if the heart is to rejoice in His light. I need not do more than remind you of the blessed consequence which our Lord represents as flowing from this union of the seeing heart and the revealing light viz., 'Thy whole body shall be full of light. In every eye that beholds the flame of the lamp there is a little lamp-flame mirrored and manifested.
And as the cool, still morning sheared the lustre from his lamp-flame, how desolate he felt, with his hatred and despair and blaspheming rage! Evil passions are but poor company, in the early morning. But was not Salome left him?
"Through that door!" "That narrow teak door, down the passage?" But the babu was gone, hurrying as if goaded by fear of hell and all its angels. Ranjoor Singh strode across the street in a bee-line and entered the dark passage. He had seen the yellow light of a lamp-flame through a chink in an upper shutter, and he intended to try directness on the problem once again.
Not the pale, ragged glow, sputtering like the ghost of a huge lamp-flame, which is familiar to every one, but a billowing of color, rainbows gone mad! In the northeast the long rolling columns formed many-colored clouds of spectral light whipped up as by a whirlwind flung from eastward to westward, devouring Polaris and the Wain rapid sequent towers of smokeless fire!
"Let there be no light here but light from heaven," said I, extinguishing the fitful lamp-flame; and the room was immediately illuminated with a white, ghostly lustre. Then kneeling by the bed, I folded back the linen sheet, gazed with folded hands, and dry, dilated eyes on the mystery of death.
This decreased pressure of the atmosphere in the flask was obtained by the following means: After warming the sides of the flask either in the hands or in the lamp-flame, thus causing a small quantity of air to be driven out of the end of the curved neck, this end was closed in the lamp.
Then he beckoned and led the way again, and they came to the police-station, still as clean and cool and steady as before, saving that the flame of its lamp being but a lamp-flame, and only attached to the Force as an outsider flickered in the wind. Also, within doors, Mr Inspector was at his studies as of yore.
As for Kitty, when she had got out of the room in that phantasmal fashion, she dimly recalled, through the mists of her own trouble, the colonel's dismay at her so glooming upon him, and began to think that she had used poor Dick more tragically than she need, and so began to laugh softly to herself; but while she stood there at the entry window a moment, laughing in the moonlight, that made her lamp-flame thin, and painted her face with its pale lustre, Mr.
These rude buildings were the abodes to which the good people migrated when summer heat became so great as to render their snow-huts sloppily disagreeable. In one of the huts sat Chingatok, his arms resting on his knees, his huge hands clasped, and his intelligent eyes fixed dreamily on the lamp-flame, over which his culinary mother was bending in busy sincerity.
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