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  • noun The light reflected by snow

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Examples

  • I reached the brow of the hill and saw warriors riding in orderly splendor down the other side, their caparisons bright in the dim snowlight.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • I reached the brow of the hill and saw warriors riding in orderly splendor down the other side, their caparisons bright in the dim snowlight.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • The sedums were growing in reflected Swiss mountain snowlight.

    THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

  • The sedums were growing in reflected Swiss mountain snowlight.

    THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

  • I reached the brow of the hill and saw warriors riding in orderly splendor down the other side, their caparisons bright in the dim snowlight.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • In the first dim, reflected snowlight before dawn Brother Haluin opened his eyes, onyx black in their blue hollows, and moved his lips to emit a hair-fine thread of a voice that Rhun had to stoop his young, sharp ear to catch and interpret.

    The Confession of Brother Haluin Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1988

  • In the first dim, reflected snowlight before dawn Brother Haluin opened his eyes, onyx black in their blue hollows, and moved his lips to emit a hair-fine thread of a voice that Rhun had to stoop his young, sharp ear to catch and interpret.

    The Confession of Brother Haluin Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1988

  • But I saw in my mind the white slopes of Etna, the titan lava-rocks black on fields of snow, and the snowlight on those blue eyes, enrapt and listening.

    The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966

  • Maggie, stirring saw her aunt's slender figure and delicate face standing in the snowlight as though she had been truly a saint from heaven.

    The Captives Hugh Walpole 1912

  • By pressing her face against the extreme corner of the pane she could just discern in the snowlight part of a man's figure, wrapped in a long cloak.

    The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy Mary Cholmondeley 1892

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