1 It blazed a soft yellow, a lambent light under a film of velvet; it filled the caverns behind the eyes with light.
2 A film fell over her eyes, shutting off the present.
3 I was always saying: go to a good instructive film, but do for goodness sake keep away from these melodramas and love films.
4 The groundwork of the face was hopefulness; but over it now I ay like a foreign substance a film of anxiety and grief.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road 5 A thin film of recent mud was left upon his skin.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL 6 His eye became a degree less opaque: it was as though an incipient film had been removed from it, and she felt the pride of a skilful operator.
7 The feature film portrayed a brave young Yankee who conquered a South American republic.
8 The film was a highly advertised and abysmal thing smacking of simpering hair-dressers, cheap perfume, red-plush suites on the back streets of tenderloins, and complacent fat women chewing gum.
9 Awfully exciting film, said Ethel Clark.
10 A film still veiled his eyes but they burned no longer.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 11 He had not died but he had faded out like a film in the sun.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 12 But I know that as I worked at it, every flake and film of colour seemed to me to reveal my secret.
13 A thin film of ice bordered the flat, reed-grown lake.
14 Soot had perched on a low branch and drawn up one leg and dropped the gray film drowsily over his eyes.
15 Soot had pushed away a squirrel and huddled close to him on his shoulder, the gray film dropped over his eyes.