1 At one end of the big barn, on a sort of raised platform, Major was already ensconced on his bed of straw, under a lantern which hung from a beam.
2 Hirsute, handsome, virile, the young man in blue jacket and brass buttons, standing in a beam of dusty light, was her husband.
3 Streatfield; a piece of traditional church furniture; a corner cupboard; or the top beam of a gate, fashioned by generations of village carpenters after some lost-in-the-mists-of-antiquity model.
4 The sun through the low window sent in a beam that lit up his thighs and slim belly and the erect phallos rising darkish and hot-looking from the little cloud of vivid gold-red hair.
5 Mr. Venn is so tall that he knocked his head against the beam in gieing a skip as he passed under.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His 6 On the table stood a dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND 7 Then he passed through the same door as before, and the light of the candle framed it in the darkness and shot one single yellow beam across the gloom of the corridor.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ... 8 In the centre of this room there was an upright beam, which had been placed at some period as a support for the old worm-eaten baulk of timber which spanned the roof.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles 9 This colossal beam is a yard; that great column of wood which stretches out on the earth as far as the eye can reach is the main-mast.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN... 10 The first has the whole heavens in his eyes; the last, enigmatical though he may be, has still, beneath his eyelids, the pale beam of the infinite.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS 11 This ruin can be recognized by two large square windows which are still to be seen there; the middle one, that nearest the right gable, is barred with a worm-eaten beam adjusted like a prop.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT 12 They were thrust under this beam, where each one found his fetters swinging in the darkness and waiting for him.
13 In the future no one will kill any one else, the earth will beam with radiance, the human race will love.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A C... 14 Don't economize on the nuptials, do not prune them of their splendors; don't scrimp on the day when you beam.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ... 15 And so he had leisure to muse on all its exquisite details, as a hard worker, on a holiday morning, might lie still and watch the beam of light travel gradually across his room.