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Though he haddetected with a critical eye more than one failure of perfect symmetryin her form, he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light andpleasing; and in spite of his asserting that her manners were not thoseof the fashionable world, he was caught by their easy playfulness.<>
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And I do not think it of light importancethat he should have attentive and conciliatory manners towards everybody,especially towards those to whom he owes his preferment.<>
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Let me take it inthe best light, in the light in which it may be understood.<>
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She seems perfectly happy, however, and in aprudential light it is certainly a very good match for her.<>
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Your profusionmakes me saving; and if you lament over him much longer, my heart willbe as light as a feather.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "In what an amiable light does this place him!" thought Elizabeth.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) Jane, who was not so light nor so much in the habit of running asElizabeth, soon lagged behind, while her sister, panting for breath,came up with him, and eagerly cried out:"Oh, papa, what news--what news? Have you heard from my uncle?""Yes I have had a letter from him by express.<>
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THE PICKWICKIANS The first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into adazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the earlier history of thepublic career of the immortal Pickwick would appear to be involved, isderived from the perusal of the following entry in the Transactions ofthe Pickwick Club, which the editor of these papers feels the highestpleasure in laying before his readers, as a proof of the carefulattention, indefatigable assiduity, and nice discrimination, with whichhis search among the multifarious documents confided to him has beenconducted.<>
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THE FIRST DAY'S JOURNEY, AND THE FIRST EVENING'S ADVENTURES;WITH THEIR CONSEQUENCESThat punctual servant of all work, the sun, had just risen, and begunto strike a light on the morning of the thirteenth of May, one thousandeight hundred and twenty-seven, when Mr. Samuel Pickwick burst likeanother sun from his slumbers, threw open his chamber window, and lookedout upon the world beneath.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Would anybody believe,' continued the cab-driver, appealing to thecrowd, 'would anybody believe as an informer'ud go about in a man'scab, not only takin' down his number, but ev'ry word he says into thebargain' (a light flashed upon Mr. Pickwick--it was the note-book).<>
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Who's that little boy with the light hair and pink eyes, in a fancydress?'inquired Mr. Tupman.<>
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Itis indeed a noble and a brilliant sight,' said Mr. Snodgrass, in whosebosom a blaze of poetry was rapidly bursting forth, 'to see the gallantdefenders of their country drawn up in brilliant array before itspeaceful citizens; their faces beaming--not with warlike ferocity, butwith civilised gentleness; their eyes flashing--not with the rudefire of rapine or revenge, but with the soft light of humanity andintelligence.<>
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Mr. Pickwick fully entered into the spirit of this eulogium, but hecould not exactly re-echo its terms; for the soft light of intelligenceburned rather feebly in the eyes of the warriors, inasmuch as thecommand 'eyes front' had been given, and all the spectator saw beforehim was several thousand pair of optics, staring straight forward,wholly divested of any expression whatever.<>
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On either side, the banks of the Medway,covered with cornfields and pastures, with here and there a windmill, ora distant church, stretched away as far as the eye could see, presentinga rich and varied landscape, rendered more beautiful by the changingshadows which passed swiftly across it as the thin and half-formedclouds skimmed away in the light of the morning sun.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'The last soft light of the setting sun had fallen on the earth, castinga rich glow on the yellow corn sheaves, and lengthening the shadows ofthe orchard trees, as he stood before the old house--the home of hisinfancy--to which his heart had yearned with an intensity of affectionnot to be described, through long and weary years of captivity andsorrow.<>
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The day was just breaking, andthe whole scene was rendered perfectly visible by the grey light of themorning.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Hollo!' shouted the shameless Jingle, 'anybody damaged?--elderlygentlemen--no light weights--dangerous work--very.<>
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If he would light upon any of these old places, he must directhis steps to the obscurer quarters of the town, and there in somesecluded nooks he will find several, still standing with a kind ofgloomy sturdiness, amidst the modern innovations which surround them.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) A delightful walk it was; for it was a pleasant afternoon in June, andtheir way lay through a deep and shady wood, cooled by the light windwhich gently rustled the thick foliage, and enlivened by the songs ofthe birds that perched upon the boughs.<>
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Long vistas of stately oaks and elm trees appearedon every side; large herds of deer were cropping the fresh grass; andoccasionally a startled hare scoured along the ground, with the speedof the shadows thrown by the light clouds which swept across a sunnylandscape like a passing breath of summer.<>
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He was nervous and excited; and hastily undressing himselfand placing his light in the chimney, got into bed.<>
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Reflecting on the absurdity of giving way to such feelings,however, he trimmed the light again, and read as follows:-- A MADMAN'S MANUSCRIPT'Yes!--a madman's! How that word would have struck to my heart, manyyears ago! How it would have roused the terror that used to come upon mesometimes, sending the blood hissing and tingling through my veins, tillthe cold dew of fear stood in large drops upon my skin, and my kneesknocked together with fright! I like it now though.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'I kept my eyes carefully from him at first, for I knew what he littlethought--and I gloried in the knowledge--that the light of madnessgleamed from them like fire.<>
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For from thefirst shades of dusk till the earliest light of morning, it still standsmotionless in the same place, listening to the music of my iron chain,and watching my gambols on my straw bed.<>
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The gloom which had oppressed him on theprevious night had disappeared with the dark shadows which shrouded thelandscape, and his thoughts and feelings were as light and gay as themorning itself.<>
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button, a black hat with a cockade to it, a pinkstriped waistcoat, light breeches and gaiters, and a variety of othernecessaries, too numerous to recapitulate.<>
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The beating of drums, the blowing of hornsand trumpets, the shouting of men, and tramping of horses, echoed andre--echoed through the streets from the earliest dawn of day; and anoccasional fight between the light skirmishers of either party at onceenlivened the preparations, and agreeably diversified their character.<>
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It's aspecial mercy that she did this, for if she HAD been blown over, thevixenish mare was so light, and the gig was so light, and Tom Smart sucha light weight into the bargain, that they must infallibly have allgone rolling over and over together, until they reached the confines ofearth, or until the wind fell; and in either case the probability is,that neither the vixenish mare, nor the clay-coloured gig with the redwheels, nor Tom Smart, would ever have been fit for service again.<>
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It was a comfortable-looking place though, for therewas a strong, cheerful light in the bar window, which shed a bright rayacross the road, and even lighted up the hedge on the other side; andthere was a red flickering light in the opposite window, one moment butfaintly discernible, and the next gleaming strongly through the drawncurtains, which intimated that a rousing fire was blazing within.<>
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Be this as it may, another light was obtained,and Tom was conducted through a maze of rooms, and a labyrinth ofpassages, to the apartment which had been prepared for his reception,where the girl bade him good-night and left him alone.<>
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There it was, plainly discernible by the light of the fire, looking asprovoking as ever.<>
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The light faded gently away, and TomSmart fell back on his pillow, and dropped asleep.<>
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It comes when we remember nothingbut clear skies, green fields, and sweet-smelling flowers--when therecollection of snow, and ice, and bleak winds, has faded from our mindsas completely as they have disappeared from the earth--and yet whata pleasant time it is! Orchards and cornfields ring with the hum oflabour; trees bend beneath the thick clusters of rich fruit which bowtheir branches to the ground; and the corn, piled in graceful sheaves,or waving in every light breath that sweeps above it, as if it wooedthe sickle, tinges the landscape with a golden hue.<>
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Dodson & Fogg,two of his Majesty's attorneys of the courts of King's Bench and CommonPleas at Westminster, and solicitors of the High Court of Chancery--theaforesaid clerks catching as favourable glimpses of heaven's light andheaven's sun, in the course of their daily labours, as a man mighthope to do, were he placed at the bottom of a reasonably deep well; andwithout the opportunity of perceiving the stars in the day-time, whichthe latter secluded situation affords.<>
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What do YOU know of the timewhen young men shut themselves up in those lonely rooms, and read andread, hour after hour, and night after night, till their reason wanderedbeneath their midnight studies; till their mental powers were exhausted;till morning's light brought no freshness or health to them; and theysank beneath the unnatural devotion of their youthful energies to theirdry old books? Coming down to a later time, and a very different day,what do YOU know of the gradual sinking beneath consumption, orthe quick wasting of fever--the grand results of "life" anddissipation--which men have undergone in these same rooms? How many vainpleaders for mercy, do you think, have turned away heart-sick from thelawyer's office, to find a resting-place in the Thames, or a refuge inthe jail? They are no ordinary houses, those.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Twenty years ago, that pavement was worn with the footsteps of a motherand child, who, day by day, so surely as the morning came, presentedthemselves at the prison gate; often after a night of restless miseryand anxious thoughts, were they there, a full hour too soon, and thenthe young mother turning meekly away, would lead the child to the oldbridge, and raising him in her arms to show him the glistening water,tinted with the light of the morning's sun, and stirring with all thebustling preparations for business and pleasure that the river presentedat that early hour, endeavour to interest his thoughts in the objectsbefore him.<>
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The hard realities of theworld, with many of its worst privations--hunger and thirst, and coldand want--had all come home to him, from the first dawnings of reason;and though the form of childhood was there, its light heart, its merrylaugh, and sparkling eyes were wanting.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'She had fainted one evening in her husband's arms, and he had borne herto the open window, to revive her with the air, when the light of themoon falling full upon her face, showed him a change upon her features,which made him stagger beneath her weight, like a helpless infant.<>
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The bones of men, who had perished in the dreary waste, layscattered at his feet; a fearful light fell on everything around; sofar as the eye could reach, nothing but objects of dread and horrorpresented themselves.<>
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He liftedthe light to his face, set it gently down, and left the apartment.<>
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Permit me, sir--if you hold the card a littleslanting, this way, you catch the light upon the up-stroke.<>
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No matter,' said Mr.Pickwick, 'I can undress myself just as well by the light of the fire.<>
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Here Mr. Pickwick smiled again,a broader smile than before, and was about to continue the process ofundressing, in the best possible humour, when he was suddenly stoppedby a most unexpected interruption: to wit, the entrance into the room ofsome person with a candle, who, after locking the door, advanced to thedressing-table, and set down the light upon it.<>
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A GOOD-HUMOURED CHRISTMAS CHAPTER, CONTAINING AN ACCOUNTOF A WEDDING, AND SOME OTHER SPORTS BESIDE: WHICH ALTHOUGH IN THEIR WAY,EVEN AS GOOD CUSTOMS AS MARRIAGE ITSELF, ARE NOT QUITE SO RELIGIOUSLYKEPT UP, IN THESE DEGENERATE TIMESAs brisk as bees, if not altogether as light as fairies, did thefour Pickwickians assemble on the morning of the twenty-second day ofDecember, in the year of grace in which these, their faithfully-recordedadventures, were undertaken and accomplished.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'A mild harvest night, by the tranquil light Of the modest and gentle moon, Has a far sweeter sheen for me, I ween, Than the broad and unblushing noon.<>
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As he went his way, up the ancientstreet, he saw the cheerful light of the blazing fires gleam through theold casements, and heard the loud laugh and the cheerful shouts of thosewho were assembled around them; he marked the bustling preparations fornext day's cheer, and smelled the numerous savoury odours consequentthereupon, as they steamed up from the kitchen windows in clouds.<>
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But the earth was hardened with the frost, and it was no very easymatter to break it up, and shovel it out; and although there was a moon,it was a very young one, and shed little light upon the grave, which wasin the shadow of the church.<>
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The scene wasaltered to a small bedroom, where the fairest and youngest child laydying; the roses had fled from his cheek, and the light from his eye;and even as the sexton looked upon him with an interest he had neverfelt or known before, he died.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Again the light cloud passed across the picture, and again the subjectchanged.<>
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The water rippled on with a pleasant sound, the trees rustledin the light wind that murmured among their leaves, the birds sang uponthe boughs, and the lark carolled on high her welcome to the morning.<>
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Not insummer, as common pigs do now, to cool themselves, and did even inthose distant ages (which is a proof that the light of civilisation hadalready begun to dawn, though feebly), but in the cold, sharp days ofwinter.<>
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Hispeople basked in the light of his countenance--it was so red andglowing.<>
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On, on, he wandered,night and day; beneath the blazing sun, and the cold pale moon; throughthe dry heat of noon, and the damp cold of night; in the gray light ofmorn, and the red glare of eve.<>
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At this instantthere came a violent gust of wind; the light was blown out; Mr. Winklefelt himself irresistibly impelled on to the steps; and the door blewto, with a loud crash.<>
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Sam gave a nod of intelligence, and withdrawing his head from the door,set forth on his pilgrimage with a light heart.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Accordingly, next morning, Sam Weller issued forth upon his quest, inno way daunted by the very discouraging prospect before him; and awayhe walked, up one street and down another--we were going to say, up onehill and down another, only it's all uphill at Clifton--without meetingwith anything or anybody that tended to throw the faintest light on thematter in hand.<>
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Mr. Pickwick broughtout the lantern, once or twice, as they groped their way along, andthrew a very brilliant little tunnel of light before them, about afoot in diameter.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) In one of these pauses of invention, the scientific gentleman wasgazing abstractedly on the thick darkness outside, when he was very muchsurprised by observing a most brilliant light glide through the air, ata short distance above the ground, and almost instantaneously vanish.<>
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The mysterious light appeared more brilliantlythan before, dancing, to all appearance, up and down the lane, crossingfrom side to side, and moving in an orbit as eccentric as cometsthemselves.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Pruffle,' said the scientific gentleman, 'there is something veryextraordinary in the air to-night? Did you see that?' said thescientific gentleman, pointing out of the window, as the light againbecame visible.<>
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Show a light for just vun second, Sir.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) As to the scientific gentleman, he demonstrated, in a masterly treatise,that these wonderful lights were the effect of electricity; and clearlyproved the same by detailing how a flash of fire danced before his eyeswhen he put his head out of the gate, and how he received a shock whichstunned him for a quarter of an hour afterwards; which demonstrationdelighted all the scientific associations beyond measure, and caused himto be considered a light of science ever afterwards.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) These staircases received light from sundry windows placed at somelittle distance above the floor, and looking into a gravelled areabounded by a high brick wall, with iron CHEVAUX-DE-FRISE at thetop.<>
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In the adjoiningroom, some solitary tenant might be seen poring, by the light of afeeble tallow candle, over a bundle of soiled and tattered papers,yellow with dust and dropping to pieces from age, writing, for thehundredth time, some lengthened statement of his grievances, for theperusal of some great man whose eyes it would never reach, or whoseheart it would never touch.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) After groping about in the gallery for some time, attempting in thedim light to decipher the numbers on the different doors, he atlength appealed to a pot-boy, who happened to be pursuing his morningoccupation of gleaning for pewter.<>
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This action imperfectly described inwords by the very feeble term of 'over the left,' when performed by anynumber of ladies or gentlemen who are accustomed to act in unison, hasa very graceful and airy effect; its expression is one of light andplayful sarcasm.<>
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Friends to see me! My God! I have sunk,from the prime of life into old age, in this place, and there is not oneto raise his hand above my bed when I lie dead upon it, and say, "It isa blessing he is gone!"'The excitement, which had cast an unwonted light over the man's face,while he spoke, subsided as he concluded; and pressing his witheredhands together in a hasty and disordered manner, he shuffled from theroom.<>
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P'raps he might ha'throw'd a small light on that 'ere liver complaint as we wos a-speakin'on, just now.<>
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The above short dialogue took place as Mr. Weller lay extended on hismattress at one end of the room, and the cobbler on his, at the other;the apartment being illumined by the light of a rush-candle, and thecobbler's pipe, which was glowing below the table, like a red-hot coal.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'If I don't get no better light than that 'ere moonshine o' yourn, myworthy creetur,' said the elder Mr. Weller, 'it's wery likely as I shallcontiney to be a night coach till I'm took off the road altogether.<>
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From this society,little Mr. Perker detached himself, on his clerk being announced in awhisper; and repairing to the dining-room, there found Mr. Lowten andJob Trotter looking very dim and shadowy by the light of a kitchencandle, which the gentleman who condescended to appear in plush shortsand cottons for a quarterly stipend, had, with a becoming contempt forthe clerk and all things appertaining to 'the office,' placed upon thetable.<>
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Alas!how many sad and unhappy beings had he left behind!A happy evening was that for at least one party in the George andVulture; and light and cheerful were two of the hearts that emerged fromits hospitable door next morning.<>
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The fires, whose lurid,sullen light had been visible for miles, blazed fiercely up, in thegreat works and factories of the town.<>
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Why, does not the crawling creature see,that even if this be the fact, the Honourable Mr. Slumkey only appearsin a still more amiable and radiant light than before, if that bepossible? Does not even his obtuseness perceive that this amiable andtouching desire to carry out the wishes of the constituent body, mustfor ever endear him to the hearts and souls of such of his fellowtownsmen as are not worse than swine; or, in other words, who are not asdebased as our contemporary himself? But such is the wretched trickeryof hole-and-corner Buffery! These are not its only artifices.<>
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Have you got a fireanywhere?We can light one directly, Sir,' said the landlord.<>
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I view you, sir, personally and politically,in no other light than as a most unparalleled and unmitigated viper.<>
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The healthy light of a fine October morning made even the dingy oldhouses brighten up a little; some of the dusty windows actually lookingalmost cheerful as the sun's rays gleamed upon them.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Here, all the light clouds of the more solemn part of the proceedingspassed away; every face shone forth joyously; and nothing was tobe heard but congratulations and commendations.<>
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I don't deny thedry light may sometimes do good; though in one sense it's the veryreverse of science.<>
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The former, a big,dark, good-humoured man with a strip of black moustache, was aprofessional police detective; the latter, a sharp-faced, sensitive-looking gentleman with light hair, was an amateur interested indetection.<>
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As they advanced they were able tolocate it as the light of several coloured lamps, entangled in the treeslike the jewel fruits of Aladdin, and especially as the light from asmall, round lake or pond, which gleamed, with pale colours as if a lampwere kindled under it.<>
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A faint, grey light was beginning to outline its radiation uponthe darkness, like some dismal and discoloured sunrise; but what lightthere was in the hall came from a single, shaded lamp, also of anantiquated sort, that stood on a bracket in a corner.<>
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By the light ofthis Bagshaw could distinguish the debris of which Brown had spoken.<>
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(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) As the man stood with his back turned--a small man in light greyclothes--the one outstanding feature about him was a wonderful head ofhair, as yellow and radiant as the head of a huge dandelion.<>
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May I come in and see where ithappened?"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) When she returned to the room with the visitor, however, other membersof the family had assembled, and those of a less psychic habit hadthought it convenient to light the lamps.<>
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" Therather ghostly grey twilight which begins to define and yet to discoloureverything when the light in the east has ceased to be localized, liftedslowly like a veil of grey gauze and showed him a figure wrapped inoutlandish raiment.<>
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"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) "Do you really mean, doctor," asked Smart in some excitement, "that youcan throw any scientific light on this mystery?"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) "I can throw light on what the Count calls a mystery," said the doctor,"because it is not a mystery at all.<>
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A figure at once light and sturdystrode very rapidly across the green lawn between the gay flowerbeds,and John Dalmon appeared among them, holding a paper in his hand.<>
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"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) "Docs it suggest, for instance," observed Father Brown, "the onlyconditions in which a vigorous and rather violent gentleman might besmiling pleasantly when his throat was cut?"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) The next moment they had passed through a dark passage or two at theback of the house, and came into the back room of the shop, dimly lit byfiltered light from beyond and a dingy and cracked looking-glass.<>
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You steppedoutside for a moment, as shopmen often do, to make sure of what hemeant; and in that moment of time he perceived in the inner room therazor you had just laid down, and the yellow-white head of Sir Arthurin the barber's chair; probably both glimmering in the light of thatlittle window beyond.<>
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Between the pillars hung thin curtains, or rather veils,made of beads or light canes, in a continental or southern manner; andon these again could be traced the lines and colours of Asiatic dragonsor idols, that contrasted with the grey Gothic framework in which theywere suspended.<>
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But this, while it further troubled the dying light ofthe place, was the least of the incongruities of which the company, withvery varying feelings, became aware.<>
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And in this, at least,the light had something in it of revelation.<>
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(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) The light also clothed for an instant, in the same silver splendour, atleast one human figure that stood up as motionless as one of the towers.<>
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"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) "I hear and obey," replied the actor; "but am I, like the Light Brigade,forbidden even to reason why?"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) "The reason," she replied, "is that he isn't the Nobleman Nobody Knows.<>
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I shut down and darkened all the skylights throughwhich comes the good daylight out of heaven; I imagined a mind lit onlyby a red light from below; a fire rending rocks and cleaving abyssesupwards.<>
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But some thingshelped; and they threw a lot of light on the mystery, too.<>
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Begin by thinking of being a greedy child; of howyou might have stolen a sweet in a shop; of how there was one particularsweet you wanted … then you must subtract the childish poetry; shut offthe fairy light that shone on the sweet-stuff shop; imagine you reallythink you know the world and the market value of sweets … you contractyour mind like the camera focus … the thing shapes and then sharpens .<>
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