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• As you can see, this spacious dining-room gets a lot of light in the mornings.
• Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,[...], and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.
• Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.
• [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
• Put that light out!
• He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
• Can you throw any light on this problem?
• He shall never know / That I had any light of this from thee.
• Now these notions are twofold, actions or habits […], which are durable lights and notions, which we may use when we will.
• Picasso was one of the leading lights of the cubist movement.
• Joan of Arc, a light of ancient France
• I'm really seeing you in a different light today.
• Magoon's governorship in Cuba was viewed in a negative light by many Cuban historians for years thereafter.
• Frequent consideration of a thing [...] shows it in its several lights and various ways of appearance.
• Hey, buddy, you got a light?
• a Bengal light
• This facade has eight south-facing lights.
• The average length of a light on a 15×15 grid is 7 or 8.
• The duke yet would have dark deeds darkly answered; he would never bring them to light.
• My strength faileth me; as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
• He seemed to find his way without his eyes; / For out o'door he went without their helps, / And, to the last, bended their light on me.
• To get to our house, turn right at the third light.
• We lit the fire to get some heat.
• She lit her last match.
• if a thousand candles be all lighted from one
• Absence might cure it, or a second mistress / Light up another flame, and put out this.
• I used my torch to light the way home through the woods in the night.
• One hundred years ago, to have lit this theatre as brilliantly as it is now lighted would have cost, I suppose, fifty pounds.
• The Sun has set, and Vesper, to supply / His absent beams, has lighted up the sky.
• This soggy match will not light.
• His bishops lead him forth, and light him on.
• The room is light when the Sun shines through the window.
• 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the Sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
• She had light skin.
• I like my coffee light.
• My bag was much lighter once I had dropped off the books.
• These weights did not exert their natural gravity [...] insomuch that I could not guess which was light or heavy whilst I held them in my hand.
• We took a light aircraft down to the city.
• This artist clearly had a light, flowing touch.
• light duties around the house
• Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
• This light beer still gets you drunk if you have enough of it.
• I made some light comment, and we moved on.
• Long after lay he musing at her mood, / Much grieu'd to thinke that gentle Dame so light, / For whose defence he was to shed his blood.
• So do not you; for you are a light girl.
• A light wife doth make a heavy husband.
• light troops; a troop of light horse
• Unmarried men are best friends, best masters [...] but not always best subjects, for they are light to run away.
• a light, vain person; a light mind
• There is no greater argument of a light and inconsiderate person than profanely to scoff at religion.
• Seneca can not be too heavy, nor Plautus too light.
• specimens of New England humour laboriously light and lamentably mirthful
• Are his wits safe? Is he not light of brain?
• light coin
• His mailèd habergeon she did undight, / And from his head his heavy burgonet did light.
• I lit upon a rare book in a second-hand bookseller's.
• She fell out of the window but luckily lit on her feet.
• Please turn on the light.
• Turn right at the light.
• I’ll have my coffee light, thanks.
• I prefer to travel light.