litten
Americanadjective
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There on the green grass were tables arrayed, and lamps were hung above them on spears, to be litten when the daylight should fail.
From The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale by William Morris
In gulfs depressed nor in the gulfs exalted Shall shade nor lightening of her flame be found; In space that litten orbits gird around, Nor in the bottomless abyss unvaulted Of unenvironed, all-outlying night.
From The Star-Treader and other poems by Clark Ashton Smith
The pavilion was litten by two great waxen torches, placed in candlesticks of fine gold, decked with jewels worth a lord's ransom.
From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by Marie de France
The women have become only black shapes upon the square litten patch which is the doorway surrounded by the blackness of the barn.
From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Gordon Bottomley
Everywhere the green fire of Spring would be litten anew.
From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Fiona Macleod
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