Lexicographical Neighbors of Firelights
Literary usage of Firelights
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1891)
"The shadows fall, and to and fro The flickering firelights come and go, While I
sit here alone ; Yet quiet footsteps cross the floor, And voices that T ..."
2. The Stones of Venice: Introductory Chapters and local Indices for the use of by John Ruskin (1906)
"The effect is of course a firelight; and like all mere firelights that I have
ever seen, totally devoid of interest. 35. Elisha Feeding the People. ..."
3. The Century (1902)
"... then unbarred the broad shutter of the window of the shop, showing the dishes
of dripping and bundles of red herrings, firelights, cheap song-books, ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1844)
"His works are not numerous: they consist, prin. cipally, of firelights, moonlights,
and sunsets, and exhibit tine feeling and judg. ment, with admirable ..."
5. The Humbler Poets: A Collection of Newspaper and Periodical Verse, 1870 to 1885 by Slason Thompson (1886)
"Inside, strange shadows haunt the room, The nickering firelights rise and fall,
And make I know not what strange shapes ..."
6. The Tory Lover by Sarah Orne Jewett (1901)
"they heard the girls calling after them all down the river, and saw new firelights
brighten as they came. The boat now felt the swift seagoing current more ..."
7. Missionary Review of the World by James Lutzweiler (1901)
"To a crowd of them gathered in the largest temple, lit only by flickering
firelights, with skulls in abundance all around, the two teachers begin to preach ..."
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