"I can’t stand much of this," said Hurstwood, whose legs ached him painfully, as he sat down upon the miserable bunk in the small, lightless chamber allotted to him.
1918, (w), Lover’s Gift and Crossing, New York: Macmillan, Crossing, 7, p. 85,https://archive.org/details/loversgiftcrossi00tago
Touch with thy flame the lightless lamp of my sorrow.
1961, (w), (w), Vintage International, 2001, Part One, Chapter 5,
Knocked about on the wooden seat of the rackety rickety dim-lit bus, going past silent fields and past houses which were lightless and dead or bright and private, Mr Biswas no longer thought of the afternoon’s mission, but of the night ahead.