lamp-teeming

Updated: May 23, 2025

Coco's black beard, standing at the bedside with a false "Augustus," was the first object that presented itself on waking, and the last pull of the bell at night was followed by the apparition of a mysterious figure in a cloak, with a small sack, full, not of truffles, but of "Lucernæ," just exhumed, and still smelling damp, from the lamp-teeming earth of Pozzuoli.

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846