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Example sentences for "faint light"

  • The last quarter of the moon above the trees in the park shed a faint light on the landscape.

  • The keeper, advancing cautiously, soon saw a faint light on the side of the Avenue Malenvers, and stealing in among the graves, he came upon a horrible act of profanation.

  • My fire was nearly out, and the few glowing embers threw a faint light on the floor by the chair, where I fancied I saw the man sitting again.

  • A place of tears and death," answered the Israelite; and he kept on ascending through the darkness, for the little lamp threw but a faint light around.

  • But, towards the Straits, a faint light appears.

  • Stopping in the midst of a corridor, he pointed with the hand in which he held the lamp to a large door from which streamed a faint light.

  • The grated window, with closed shutters, only admitted a faint light to this apartment.

  • It's the room up there,' said the Marchioness, pointing to one where there was a faint light.

  • There was a faint light in a chamber window not far off, and Kit ran towards that house to ask their way.

  • The flame flickered and cast a faint light on the ikon-stand and the big portrait of Uncle Klavdy that hung facing his bed.

  • I opened the door and walked into a little dark room with a solitary window, through which there came a faint light from a street lamp outside.

  • A gloomy dark blue dawn was peeping in at the door, at the windows, and through the crevices in the hut walls, and casting a faint light on my bed, on the table with the papers, and on Ananyev.

  • There was a faint light coming up from the centre of the great hall, and by its aid I discovered that there was some one in the extreme end of the balcony.

  • There was but a faint light at the entrance, and I watched to see when one of our pursuers should force his entrance to our retreat.

  • Along the very top there were some small openings, or natural embrasures, and through these a faint light percolated.

  • It seemed the train ran by degrees out of the darkness into a faint light, then beat after beat into the day.

  • He recovered, turned round, saw the door ajar, a faint light revealed.

  • There was a faint light, it seemed to her, in the room.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    border ruffians; considerable fortune; everywhere else; faint blush; faint flush; faint light; faint sigh; faint smile; faint sound; faint twinkle; faint voice; ground cloves; having died; heart would; heavenly life; injury done; intimate acquaintance; moderate breeze; move them; much business; narrow channel; out for; pale brownish; peel them; slave laws; while his