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«At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.»
«An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.»
«And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: lay down, lighted, pillows, put to sleep
«And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: camel, Isaac, lighted, Rebekah
«And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou? / And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.»
«And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Barak, chariot, discomfited, lighted
«And he lighted the lamps before the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: lamps, lighted
«And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: lamps, lighted
«Again the Ghost sped on, above the black and heaving sea -- on, on -- until, being far away, as he told Scrooge, from any shore, they lighted on a ship. They stood beside the helmsman at the wheel, the look-out in the bow, the officers who had the watch; dark, ghostly figures in their several stations; but every man among them hummed a Christmas tune, or had a Christmas thought, or spoke below his breath to his companion of some bygone Christmas Day, with homeward hopes belonging to it. And every man on board, waking or sleeping, good or bad, had had a kinder word for another on that day than on any day in the year; and had shared to some extent in its festivities; and had remembered those he cared for at a distance, and had known that they delighted to remember him.»
«Great men are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted»

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