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Example sentences for "light and"

  • The almost hysterical changes of light and darkness, summer and winter, which have impressed themselves on the literature of the North, are unknown here.

  • There was sunshine overhead, but the peaks were shrouded in scudding vapours, trees bent under the force of the wind; the sea, a welter of light and shade, was dappled with silvery patches under the swiftly careering clouds.

  • Do not dare to move from this spot--do not make a sound," said Lord Elliot, taking a light and advancing to a second door.

  • No chisel could have drawn the lines more correctly or artistically, or produced a finer effect of light and shade.

  • Know that Fortune is light and inconstant; A deceiver who delights in cruel reverses; She is seen to abuse the wise man, the vulgar Insolently playing with all this weak universe.

  • The moon stood over the camp and illuminated the strange and parti-colored scene with her soft rays, and called out the most wonderful contrasts of light and shade.

  • By this time the darkness had fallen, and the flickering radiance from the few sticks blazing in the great fireplace made strange effects of light and shade in the spacious old kitchen.

  • We gave of old to Moses and Aaron the illumination,10 and a light and a warning for the God-fearing, Who dread their Lord in secret, and who tremble for "the Hour.

  • But with him came a realisation of its virtues, a perception that in its smallness and sweetness it yet held imprisoned, like the gem that sits on the smallest finger of a hand, an ocean of light and colour.

  • My application of a certain substance, known to scientists, but scarcely understood, is an attempt to solve the problem of swift aerial motion by light and heat--light and heat being the chiefest supports of life.

  • In what splendour of light and air we are sailing!

  • You must have something material for light and shade to fall on before you can take a photograph.

  • These little self-contained flats were convenient; to be sure, she had no light and no air, but she could shut it up whenever she liked and go away.

  • Soames took it in his hand, a cold foot, light and thin, white, very cold.

  • We loaded our long-boat with goods of all kinds, light and heavy, and pulled ashore.

  • Light and agile, instead of losing precious time in making a long circuit, she sprang at once upon the table, passed nimbly through the array of plates and bottles, and with one spring was by the side of the sufferer.

  • She was a tall girl of about twenty years of age, light and graceful, with regular features, and a merry, racketing air.

  • Morok, light and sinewy, could not struggle with advantage against Dagobert, who, aided by his tall stature, still displayed extraordinary vigor.

  • The ground is light and easy to dig hereabouts,' she replied.

  • The rosy wall dwindled in a flash to a point of light and disappeared!

  • I looked at the pillars of light and I tested the liquid of the Pool on which they fell.

  • For this was no rainbow, no thing born of light and mist, no Bifrost Bridge of myth--no!

  • By sight I have the ideas of light and colours, with their several degrees and variations.

  • But, if we had a new sense, we should possibly no more doubt of their existence than a blind man made to see does of the existence of light and colours.

  • His intention was solely to produce an effect of light and Shadow; everything was to be sacrificed to that intent, and the capricious composition of that picture suited very well with the style he professed.

  • The art of colouring, and the skilful management of light and shadow, are essential requisites in his confined labours.

  • Thus figures must have a ground whereon to stand; they must be clothed, there must be a background, there must be light and shadow; but none of these ought to appear to have taken up any part of the artist's attention.

  • Further favorable stimulation of the eye is given in the method of the Impressionists in treating "values," that is, comparative relations of light and shade.

  • II The simplest element of visual experience is of course found in light and color, the sensation of the eye as such.

  • Flashing through the tree-tops of the Limberlost there are birds whose colour is more brilliant than that of the gaudiest flower lifting its face to light and air.

  • Bug and worm were working to light and warmth.

  • He followed that with a rippling song of the joy and fulness of spring, in notes as light and airy as the wind-blown soul of melody, and with swaying body kept time to his rhythmic measures.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "light and" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    grey eyes; light and; light battery; light breeze; light cruisers; light from; light green; light hair; light land; light laugh; light manufacturing; light pink; light railway; light sandy; light troops; light upon; light window; light winds; lighted lamp; lighter shade; lightning rods; pounded sugar; provide for; telegram from; twelve inches; until the