night-light

(nīt′līt′)

A small, dim light left on all night.

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night-light

a dim light burning at night, esp for children

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night′-light`

a light kept burning at night, as in a sickroom.

[1640–1650]

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night-light - light (as a candle or small bulb) that burns in a bedroom at night (as for children or invalids)

light source, light - any device serving as a source of illumination; "he stopped the car and turned off the lights"

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night-light

[ˈnaɪtlaɪt] N → lamparilla f, mariposa f

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night-light

[ˈnaɪtˌlaɪt] n → lumino da notte

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"Where did the table with the night-light stand,--far from the bed?"

When we were in complete darkness, he lit a wax vesta, and asked Daddy Jacques to move to the middle of the chamber with it to the place where the night-light was burning that night.

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Then the figure, from whom she could not detach her eyes, and who appeared more protecting than menacing, took the glass, and walking towards the night-light held it up, as if to test its transparency.

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It's no joke, I can tell you, readin' a great big book, in double columns, by a night-light, and the light that comes through a chink in the door.

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As I had asked for a night-light, the chamberlain had brought me in, before he left me, the good old constitutional rush-light of those virtuous days - an object like the ghost of a walking-cane, which instantly broke its back if it were touched, which nothing could ever be lighted at, and which was placed in solitary confinement at the bottom of a high tin tower, perforated with round holes that made a staringly wide-awake pattern on the walls.

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She lit the night-light, and extinguished the candles-- with one exception, which she removed to a little table, placed on the side of the bed opposite to the side occupied by the arm-chair.

Lying on her left side, with her face turned away from the table, she could see the arm-chair by the dim night-light. It had a chintz covering--representing large bunches of roses scattered over a pale green ground.

The night-light had gone out; and the room, as a matter of course, was in total darkness.

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And by-and-by when they were alone with their night-light she would start up in bed crying "Hsh!

"Not at all," cried a glow-worm, "if she were to wake without seeing a night-light she might be frightened, so I shall be her night-light."

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Miss Ladd knew her business as a schoolmistress too well to allow night-lights; and Miss Ladd's young ladies were supposed to be fast asleep, in accordance with the rules of the house.

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The fire was warm, however, and the nursery dimly lit by three night-lights, and presently the sewing lay on Mrs.