That is, no colour. The very grass is not green at night. Oh, but it is if you look at it with a lantern. No, no. It is the light of the lantern, which happens to be strong enough to make the leaves look green, though it is not strong enough to make a geranium look red. Not red? No; the geranium flowers by a lantern look black, while the leaves look green. If you don't believe me, we will try.英文原著 · 《Madam How and Lady Why》
CYRANO (in a terrible voice, showing him the lighted lantern held by the porter, who is listening curiously): Take the lantern. (Ligniere seizes it): Let us start! I swear That I will make your bed to-night myself! (To the officers): Follow; some stay behind, as witnesses!英文原著 · 《Cyrano de Bergerac》
Then came the words that had a mighty fitness for his tongue. 'Hail, holy light! Offspring of Heaven first born. His voice rose and fell, riding the mighty rhythm of inspired song. As he stood swinging the lantern, then, he reminded me of a chanting priest behind the censer. In a moment he sat down, and, holding the lantern between his knees, opened its door and felt the candle. Then as the light streamed out upon his hands, he rubbed them a time, silently, as if washing them in the bright flood. 'One dollar for this little box of daylight,'he said.英文原著 · 《Eben Holden》
I closed the door softly and went back into the gloom. The boy was also sound asleep in his chair. The lantern light flared and fell again as water leaps in a stopping fountain. As it dashed upon the face of Riggs I saw his eyes half-open. I went close to his chair. As I did so the light went out and smoke rose above the lantern with a rank odour. 'Riggs!'I called but he sat motionless and made no answer. The moonlight came through the dusty window lighting his face and beard.英文原著 · 《Eben Holden》
My eyes were getting used to the half-light, and I saw what was beside the lantern. Laputa knelt on the ashes of the fire which the Keeper had kindled three days before. He knelt before, and half leaned on, a rude altar of stone. The lantern stood by him on the floor, and its faint circle lit something which I was not unprepared for. Blood was welling from his side, and spreading in a dark pool over the ashes.英文原著 · 《Prester John》