torchlight

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Frequent power cuts mean surgeons are having to perform some operations by torchlight, they said.

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  • By daylight the room was brighter and nicer than it had seemed by torchlight, and it had seemed nice enough then. —  Volk
  • In torchlight, the initiates kneel, cup their hand against a fresh wound. —  FSF, July 2006
  • For a while he and Frodo lay back and watched the torchlight, and the men moving to and fro speaking in hushed voices. —  The Lord of the Rings
  • He had passed beyond the torchlight, almost to a great arched door at the end of the passage, the inner side of the under gate, as he rightly guessed, when there came from high above a dreadful choking shriek. —  The Lord of the Rings
  • File after file passed, and the tell-tale torchlight was already some way ahead. —  The Lord of the Rings
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