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Definition of Limelights
1. limelight [v] - See also: limelight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Limelights
Literary usage of Limelights
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of the Lantern: Being a Practical Guide to the Working of the by Thomas Cradock Hepworth (1889)
"The object is so placed that it can be strongly illuminated by the condensed rays
from either one or two limelights ; an objective lens being used to form ..."
2. Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving by Bram Stoker (1907)
"He went on: " Put sapphire mediums on the limelights from both sides so as to
make the whole back ... Now turn all the white limelights on the angels ! ..."
3. Journal by Chartered Insurance Institute (1902)
"These limelights being movable cannot have fixed connections. Such are the
principal means of lighting the stage, and owing to the number of lights in use ..."
4. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (1912)
"... is up stage near LU exit; the Ghost should enter and disappear from behind
tent; avoid limelights and gauzes if possible. ..."
5. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (1912)
"... is up stage near LU exit; the Ghost should enter and disappear from behind
tent; avoid limelights and gauzes if possible. ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"Those who enter this field should be people of some steadfastness of purpose,
and who have little or no ambition to pose or dance in the limelights. ..."
7. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1913)
"When the limelights are manipulated with design so palpable as in the death of
Le Fevre or the story of the dead ass, the author goes far to defeat his own ..."
8. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"... by suitable regulation of the limelights, be made greenish-yellow, yellow, or
orange-yellow, these colours being, of course, not simple ones, ..."
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