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Examples
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Sure enough, the evening was being broken by the high-pitched keening of the death-songs; against the night sky I could see figures moving to and fro, and there were pin-points of torch-light all over the slope.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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He could not see who the men were because of the brilliant torch-light in his eyes.
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I pressed on quickly; not far behind me, I could hear chanting voices, and see torch-light among the trees.
Fiancée 2010
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It was the river, million-colored in the torch-light, pouring from a half-mile-long slash in the cliff above them and plunging past them through the gloom toward the very middle of the world.
In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010
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It was like a Christmas scene, a great white blanket glittering in the full moon, and the dark house rising up from it, with the red dots of torch-light dancing among the outbuildings, and the thin sound of voices echoing through the frosty air, and the stars twinkling in the purple sky.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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The vestiges of this uncommon species of bridge still exist, and the author has often seen the foundations of the columns when drifting down the Tweed at night for the purpose of killing salmon by torch-light.
The Monastery 2008
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The Queen cast not an ungratified glance on a large mirror, which, hanging on one side of the apartment, and illuminated by the torch-light, reflected her beautiful face and person.
The Abbot 2008
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Although the fact was performed by torch-light, and in presence of a great multitude, to some of whom, at least, the individual actors must have been known, yet no discovery was ever made concerning any of the perpetrators of the slaughter.
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Their principal leaders kept close to the person of the prisoner, whose pallid yet stubborn features were seen distinctly by the torch-light, as his person was raised considerably above the concourse which thronged around him.
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The torch-light, while it fell on their forms and left him in the shade, gave him an opportunity to do so without their observing him.
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