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FIRELIGHT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The light of a fire (especially in a fireplace)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("firelight" is a kind of...):
light; visible light; visible radiation ((physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation)
Context examples:
Opposite was a large bookcase, with a marble bust of Athene on the top. In the corner, between the bookcase and the wall, there stood a tall, green safe, the firelight flashing back from the polished brass knobs upon its face.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
What the knitting was, I don't know, not being learned in that art; but it looked like a net; and as she worked away with those Chinese chopsticks of knitting-needles, she showed in the firelight like an ill-looking enchantress, baulked as yet by the radiant goodness opposite, but getting ready for a cast of her net by and by.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The firelight played over her features, and Alleyne thought that he had never seen such queenly power, such dignity and strength, upon a woman's face.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Along upon our left the neighboring caves each threw out its ruddy cheery firelight into the gloom.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Full into the firelight, with a stealthy, sidelong movement, glided a doglike animal.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The four young faces on which the firelight shone brightened at the cheerful words, but darkened again as Jo said sadly, "We haven't got Father, and shall not have him for a long time."
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
If he were insane, however, his was a very cool and collected insanity: I had never seen that handsome-featured face of his look more like chiselled marble than it did just now, as he put aside his snow-wet hair from his forehead and let the firelight shine free on his pale brow and cheek as pale, where it grieved me to discover the hollow trace of care or sorrow now so plainly graved.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
But tonight there was a shudder in his blood; the face of Hyde sat heavy on his memory; he felt (what was rare with him) a nausea and distaste of life; and in the gloom of his spirits, he seemed to read a menace in the flickering of the firelight on the polished cabinets and the uneasy starting of the shadow on the roof.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He came cringing and crawling into the firelight.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
They were all about him and the fire, in a narrow circle, and he could see them plainly in the firelight lying down, sitting up, crawling forward on their bellies, or slinking back and forth.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
