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Anna Karenina
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garniture
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John Tyndall
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spirit lamp
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Definition:
a lamp which burns alcohol or some other volatile spirit.
photo: by Trisawan under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
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At the stove stood Leni, in a white apron as always, breaking eggs into a pot standing on a
spirit lamp
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Franz Kafka. The Trial
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A cloth was laid on a round table, and on it stood a china tea service and a silver
spirit-lamp
and tea kettle.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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