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Examples
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They had left the searchlight's glow behind them now and entered a place where death could strike anywhere, anytime.
Death Stalks The Ruins Adams, Stephen 2005
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Then upon the screen they saw dancing flashes that were not reflections from the ships, but something else - knifing flashes that reached out, probed and stabbed and slashed, like a searchlight's beam cuts into the night.
The Cosmic Engineer Simak, Clifford D. 1950
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Halfway around, he stopped abruptly; a slim, petite figure appeared clearly in the searchlight's glare.
The Beast of Space F.E. Hardart
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But the searchlight's brilliant beam followed relentlessly, and as the two smart little craft cleared from the area of the black smoke cloud, there came the ringing report of a 6-inch gun followed by the familiar whirr of
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Some one came rushing up into the searchlight's glare.
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Right in front of them, vividly outlined in the searchlight's glare, was an obstacle.
The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone Richard Bonner
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As Tom spoke, there came rushing into Roy's memory as vivid as the searchlight's shaft, a certain dark night a year before when Tom Slade, hoodlum, had stood by his side and with eyes of wonder watched him flash
Tom Slade at Temple Camp Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913
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For a moment the boys were blinded as the searchlight's flame played on the forward part of their vessel.
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By the searchlight's shaft I saw it clearly, fleshless and worn, a sort of withered fin.
Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904
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Just at this moment, a searchlight's unearthly arm that was swinging through space stops and falls on us, and we find that the tangle of uprooted and sunken posts and shattered framing is populous with dead soldiers.
Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904
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