Speaking conjecturally, but with certain sidelights to encourage, this seems a case of the insensible degradation of rite into custom.
Homer by sidelights indicates that the Trojans were nice in their domestic arrangements, took fastidious care of their attire, and were confirmed lovers of fresh air.
The account which the model husband, Ischomachus, gives in his dialogue with Socrates of his experience in wife training throws many sidelights on the marriage relations of the Athenians and the philosophy of their system.
One must always remember in planning the position of the lights for a room that the eye naturally seeks the brightest spot, and badly placed lamps and sidelights will upset the balance of a room.
Dining-rooms are far more beautiful and also better lighted if sidelights are used, with candles on the table, rather than a drop light.
In this connection see Mr. Bertram Dobell's Sidelightson Charles Lamb, 1903.
These and other essays are printed in Mr. Bertram Dobell's Sidelights on Charles Lamb, 1903, with interesting comments.
A yet more familiar instance of continuity between the single figures in the lights of a window occurs where the central light contains the Christ upon the cross, and in the sidelights stand the Virgin and S.
These or the smaller pictures may be continued in the sidelights of a broad window, flanking, and in a way framing, a large central picture.
Sidelights on the Russian Retreat and German Advance 240 XXIX.
It seems fairly reasonable to suppose that after the lapse of one hundred years any further research, although it may throw valuable sidelights on the battle, will not solve the problem.
From slave advertisements of the eighteenth century[1] we may gain many sidelights not only on the education of Negroes in the colonial era, but on their environment and suffering as well.
Footnote 1: On the whole subject of the actual life of the Negro soldier unusual interest attaches to the forthcoming and authoritative "Sidelights on Negro Soldiers," by Charles H.
During that time I have to put out the sidelights and binnacles, and stow the sidelights in the bos'ns locker, then call Jack.
The Unveiled Glory; or, Sidelights on the Higher Evolution.
For an apparently haphazard collection of essays Sidelights on New London and Newer York, published on his return to England from the second visit, has a surprising unity.
The year of the Congress two other books were published: Sidelights on New London and Newer York, already discussed, and Chaucer.
It may really be said that on the States he wrote two books, for in the volume of essays Sidelights on New London and Newer York which followed his second visit he showed a much greater understanding than in What I Saw in America.
We may also gather from Hoccleve's account of his own youth many glimpses which tend to throw interesting sidelights on that of Chaucer (Hoccleve's Works, E.
From other chroniclers, and from dry official documents, we may throw interesting sidelights on these more living memorials.
By a wise provision of the rules for the government of pilots, adopted since I left the river, no one is permitted in the pilot house except the pilot on watch, or his partner, after the sidelights have been put up.
For this reason it was necessary to cover every light on the boat while running on a very dark night, save the red and green sidelights at the chimney-tops.
Macgowan in his work Sidelights on Chinese Life (pp.
Macgowan writes very strongly on the subject in his Sidelights on Chinese Life, pp.
The sidelights showed fainter and fainter in the water; the light on the mast shed no rays on the deck, but twinkled uselessly behind its glass.
We must therefore look round for sidelights which may clear up the obscurities in the history of this church.
Nobody knew the full history of the change except Neil, but others could have thrown sidelights upon it, among them Mrs. Randall's second maid, Mollie.
These sketches throw many sidelights on his early years, but, except the one named "Idolatry" they are not up to the level of his usual work.
He cast sidelights on the probable reasons for delay in the answer to Mrs. Atkinson's letter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sidelights" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
