LIGHT in Classic Quotes

Simple words can express big ideas - learn how great writers to make beautiful sentences with common words.
Quotes from Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf
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1  She gave him a light pat on the arm.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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2  It was drained of light, severe, stone cold.
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3  Giles crumpled the newspaper and turned out the light.
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4  A shaft of light like a yellow banner sloped from roof to floor.
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5  Grant us to be thy servants on earth; grant us to spread the light of thy.
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6  She waved her hand at the trees standing bare in the clear light of January.
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7  Darts of red and green light flashed from the rings on Mrs. Manresa's fingers.
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8  All that inner darkness became a hall, leaf smelling, earth smelling of yellow light.
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9  Pointz Hall was seen in the light of an early summer morning to be a middle-sized house.
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10  But alas, sunset light was unsympathetic to her make-up; plated it looked, not deeply interfused.
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11  It blazed a soft yellow, a lambent light under a film of velvet; it filled the caverns behind the eyes with light.
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12  The light but variable breeze, foretold by the weather expert, flapped the yellow curtain, tossing light, then shadow.
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13  All these eyes, expanding and narrowing, some adapted to light, others to darkness, looked from different angles and edges.
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14  Hirsute, handsome, virile, the young man in blue jacket and brass buttons, standing in a beam of dusty light, was her husband.
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15  She came in like a swan swimming its way; then was checked and stopped; was surprised to find people there; and lights burning.
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16  They were bringing up nets full of fish from the sea; but Isa was seeing--the garden, variable as the forecast said, in the light breeze.
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17  For she turned, and Giles stepped forward; and the light breeze which the meteorologist had foretold fluttered her skirts; and she went, like a goddess, buoyant, abundant, with flower-chained captives following in her wake.
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