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At first it seems to come down normally, yet with a sort of pilot-light twinkling at its head; but, when a hundred feet or so from earth, see it burst into a sheet of flame and shrivel up upon the ground in a column of dark smoke!
The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Geoffrey Keith Rose
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She lit it, watched the water falling into the bath, twisted the pilot-light round and blew it out.
St Peter's Finger Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1938
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Disney's decision to keep Miramax running in skeletal form reflects a pilot-light strategy: shutting it completely might have stripped too much value out of the brand and film library.
NYT > Home Page 2009
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