For ever since he had visited the Hilberys he had been much at the mercy of a phantom Katharine, who came to him when he sat alone, and answered him as he would have her answer, and was always beside him to crown those varying triumphs which were transacted almost every night, in imaginary scenes, as he walked through the lamplit streets home from the office.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
He fell asleep directly they got into the lamplit train; and Norah carried him from the station, carried him all the time the horse was being put to and they were getting ready to leave.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
The shutters went up at the saddler's, and she saw Mr. Allen for a moment-a long, thin man, looking too tall for the frame of the lamplit doorway.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell