Lights

Examples

• She turned out the wall-lights, and peered at herself between the candle-flames. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I saw the lights of the hotel and rowed out, rowing straight out until they were out of sight. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• It started, as we have said, on September 4, 1882, supplying about four hundred lights to a comparatively small number of customers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Are the lights at the tunnel and the western pass in order, Alexandros? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The curtain drew up--shrivelled to the ceiling: the bright lights, the long room, the gay throng, burst upon us. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Winsor takes British patent for Illuminating Gas, lights Lyceum Theatre, and organizes First Gas Company. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• From the towering lighthouses of our coasts its beams are thrown seaward, and a beacon for the mariner shines beyond all other lights. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I'll make my cloth as I please, and according to the best lights I have. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Black was the river as a torrent of ink; lights glanced on it from the piles of building round, ships rocked on its bosom. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The electric train was there waiting, all the lights on. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Hasn't ye 'eard that devil's spawn of a capting an' is mates knockin' the bloomin' lights outen 'arf the crew? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• It came to pass, therefore, that Physician's little dinners always presented people in their least conventional lights. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• What we wished for was little lights, and a distribution of them to people’s houses in a manner similar to gas. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Once as he passed close to a troop truck and the lights flashed he saw their faces fixed and sad in the sudden light. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• These lights dotted the hillside like stars of a low magnitude. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The lights were all changed for him both without and within. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I am not likely to follow new lights, though there are plenty of them here as elsewhere. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Them's her lights, Miss Abbey, wot you see a-blinking yonder,' cried another. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The furnace foreman is notified by the operator as to the temperature by means of small colored electric lights, located above the furnace. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Put out the lights, Barto. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• That opposition to the New Fever Hospital which Lydgate had sketched to Dorothea was, like other oppositions, to be viewed in many different lights. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The electric light made high lights on the dull oiled leather. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the carriage. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• All the lights go out. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• They saw the golden lights of the hotel glowing out in the night of snow-silence, small in the hollow, like a cluster of yellow berries. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It is a coal of fire heaped on my head; and so is every word you address to me, and every look that lights your sweet face. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He only withdrew with his lights into an inner room, into the silence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He did not know that we had already worked out the safety-fuse, and that every group of lights was thus protected independently. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There were benches behind a rail that looked down on the white table and the lights. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.

Typist: Nelly