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  • It had to be the limelit highway - the bright parade.

    Keeper of the Keys Biggers, Earl Derr, 1884-1933 1932

  • It seems to me that all roads do lead to Calvary -- yes, even the road of the worldly success, the limelit path of gratification.

    Over the Fireside with Silent Friends Richard King 1913

  • I made my first acquaintance with the limelit humanity that, magnificent in its crimes and in its virtues, sins or suffers in false eyebrows or white muslin to the sound of soft music.

    Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895

  • Byron is the one that represents him most truly in his blend of sensualism and idealism, whereas the Brocken figure is but Byron as he appeared to himself in his stormiest and gloomiest moments, and even that phantasm artistically draped and limelit by a poet's imagination.

    Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895

  • Preceding this recent limelit activity was the consolidation of four U.N. agencies into one superagency to help streamline and empower the U.N.’s commitment to the protection and advancement of women all around the world.

    The Superagency – Recent U.N. Decisions Bear New Hope For Womankind « Gender Across Borders 2009

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