Lamp-post

I saw the crippled wretch standing by the lamp-post and shaking his clenched fists in the air as if he were mad with rage.

Source: tatoeba (7025709)

I cannot say if he first caught sight of me or I of him, for he was crouched in the shadow of a lamp-post; seemingly on the chance of there coming that way a compassionate pedestrian who might be induced to give him a night’s lodging.

Source: tatoeba (11011147)