ancient lights
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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My hands tremble a little as I untangle the ancient lights from one another.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
Like spectral lamps, that burn before a tomb, The ancient lights expire; I wave a torch, that floods the lessening gloom With everlasting fire!
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor
Mary reflected, but the only repartee that she could conjure at the moment was something about ancient lights which did not seem appropriate.
From Stella Fregelius by Haggard, Henry Rider
The "Wheat-sheaf" is perhaps the most attractive, with its curious gable and ancient lights, and even the interior is not much altered.
From Vanishing England by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
In whatever direction tramlines or railroads desired to flow, there stood Samuel ready to apply his tourniquet, which was sometimes nothing more than one tumbledown cottage plastered with signs of ancient lights.
From Rich Relatives by MacKenzie, Compton
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