Skylight
['skaɪlaɪt] or ['skaɪ'laɪt]
Definition
(n.) A window placed in the roof of a building, in the ceiling of a room, or in the deck of a ship, for the admission of light from above.
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Examples
- The room had once been lighted by a small side window, but this had been bricked up, and a lantern skylight was now substituted for it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- George, I know where my man is because I was on the roof last night and saw him through the skylight, and you along with him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He must have dropped in his death-swoon--he must have sunk in the place where he was found--just as I got on the roof to break the skylight window. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I saw them quite hard at work, when I looked down through the open skylight. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I am going to climb over you to the roof--I am going to break the skylight, and give him some air! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Evidently there was a skylight which let in light from above. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Through the skylight. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The instant I turned the corner and came in view of the vestry, I saw the lantern-skylight on the roof brilliantly lit up from within. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The skylight above was open, and the prisoner gone. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open skylight. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The thought leaped through me like the fire leaping out of the shattered skylight. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Having at last landed in a great hall, full of skylight glare, I made my way somehow to what proved to be the coffee-room. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The last inconvenience would soon have become intolerable, had I not found means to open and prop up the skylight, thus admitting some freshness. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The skylight, you know, isday and night, left half open for air; by the skylight he entered. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I struck at the skylight, and battered in the cracked, loosened glass at a blow. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The swing skylights above the saloon table had been a bit open, and they had fired on us through the slit. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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