side-lights

The sailors slipped forward, setting the side-lights as they went, while the two hunters remained to sleep in the cabin, it not being deemed advisable to open the slide to the steerage companion-way.

Chapter 17 2010

Stumbling over the strange decks, he made his way aft where he could look upon the side-lights of the Mary Thomas, following steadily in the rear.

The Lost Poacher 2010

All of which side-lights on Miss Mason went to increase

Chapter VI 2010

He saw the Mary Thomas swing abruptly into line as she took the pressure from the hawser, and her side-lights, red and green, rose and fell as she was towed through the sea.

The Lost Poacher 2010

As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round the curve of the avenue.

Sole Music 2010

These records, an analysis of his antecedents, are merely side-lights, and unknown beyond the walls of the Palais de Justice.

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

Hence, as all good writers aim at simplicity and directness, we have seen the growth of a new style, in which the rays of many side-lights are concentrated in some single phrase.

Voltaire 2007

Their separate functions emerged by means of their activities, their epithets, the psychological sense of the legends connected with them, the indications of the Upanishads and Puranas, the occasional side-lights from Greek myth.

The spiritual intention of the legends Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

Tor, not unless he side-lights in the funerary profession.

What? No Politics? « Whatever 2006

He wore a black-rimmed double eyeglass with blue side-lights at his temples, and his hat, from the shape of his forehead, hung back; he had narrow white wiry whiskers, and a Roman nose, and most prominent chin, and keen gray eyes with gingery brows, which contracted, like sharp little gables over them, whenever any thing displeased him.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004