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Sentences starting with lights

Lights gleamed in the houses; voices and laughter, and once the tinkle of a guitar came to us from court-yard and gallery. [9]
Lights sparkled on the crescent shore of Beauport, and the torches of fishermen flared upon the St. Charles. [11]
Lights were placed on antique candelabra, or, wanting these at suppers, there were living candleholders. [4]
Lights twinkled from many a cottage window and from boats in the bay, and strains of music saluted the travelers. [4]
Lights were burning in every window. [11]
Lights were gleaming from the windows of the Tuileries, lights blazed along the Rue de Rivoli, dotted the great Square, and glowed for miles up the Champs Elysees. [4]
Lights were gleaming from the saloons along the street. [4]
Lights flickered here and there in the houses and by the roadside. [11]

Sentences ending with lights

He was a wise and humane judge, and he clearly did his honest best and fairest,--according to his lights. [5]
I cannot remember the words of this letter broadside, but there was about a page used up in turning this idea round and round and exposing it in different lights. [5]
Mr. Parr led the way up the wide staircase to the corridor above, traversing chamber after chamber, turning on the lights. [9]
She was in the soft flare of the lights. [11]
For there lay the sea, and the plain of Sorrento, with its darkening groves and hundreds of twinkling lights. [4]
Despite the heat, the place was ablaze with lights. [9]
Looking out on the court, and sustaining this classic illusion, is a marble-paved dining room, with hangings of Pompeiian red, and frescoes of nymphs and satyrs and piping shepherds, framed between fluted pilasters, dimly discernible in the soft lights. [9]
He had found the antidote to his great temptation, to the lurking, relentless habit which had almost killed him the night John Brown had sung Champagne Charlie from behind the flaring lights. [11]
So she stood still and held her breath as she watched the advancing lights. [10]
And just then shots were fired, and we saw the coast-guards' lights. [11]

Short sentences using lights

The electric lights were blazing. [4]
Put out the lights. [5]
The lights were burning low. [5]
Lights, I said. [10]

Sentences containing lights two or more times

As I did so, I could see the lights of our fleet in the Basin, and the camp-fires of our army on the Levis shore, on Isle Orleans, and even at Montmorenci, and the myriad lights in the French encampment at Beauport. [11]
In the middle of the Stanley Street bridge she stopped to lean against the wet rail; the mill lights were scattered, dancing points of fire over the invisible swift waters, and she raised her eyes presently to the lights themselves, seeking one unconsciously--Ditmar's! [9]
We saw many lights in the valley, and so judged it well to make a station, for that where so many lights be needs must they indicate a town of goodly size. [5]

More example sentences with the word lights in them

Society is inspecting you, and it finds undisguised surfaces and strong lights a convenience in the process. [6]
It had been written just after Georg's return the day before, and ran as follows: "Joyously they march along, Lights are flashing through the panes, In the streets a busy throng Curiosity enchains. [10]
To do so would be to discard all the lights of current experience to reject all progress, all improvement. [7]
The city reeked with smoke and acrid, stale gas, the electric lights were turned on to dispel the November gloom. [9]
He was covered with dust and debris, his lights went out, but he calmly stepped through the window. [9]
How could the wind have set one torch in the place of another, and moved lights or lanterns in a direction opposite to its violent course? [10]
What it held will, perhaps, never be known, until they are dead and gone, and same curious eye lights on an old yellow letter with the fossil footprints of the extinct passion trodden thick all over it. [6]
In the Caesareum, where the Empress dwelt, the lights were extinguished one after another; but in the palace of Lochias they grew more numerous and brighter. [10]
But she sat where she was until the maid came in to pull the curtains and turn on the lights, reminding her that guests were expected. [9]
It was midnight when we saw the lights of Temple Bow through the trees. [9]
Night fell, and when they reached the Silliston road the lights of Hampton shone below them in the darkness. [9]
Do you know what an impudent thing the managers did the other night in protesting against the raising of the lights by which the house was made brilliant and the cheap illusions of the stage were destroyed? [4]
When the lights were up again the room was empty, save for Theophile Charlemagne, Jake Hough, and Suzon, who lay in a faint on the floor with a nasty bruise on her forehead. [11]
All the lights were turned low, so low that the congregation sat in a deep and solemn gloom. [5]
Ahead of her were the lights of the Chippering Mill, in her ears was the rhythmic sound of the looms working of nights on the Bradlaugh order. [9]
Even now lights were still shining from the Alexandrian's tent through the sultry, veiled night. [10]
The innumerable lights were so near and yet so far: it was a kink of the brain, but she seemed withdrawn from them, not they from her. [11]
The street lights were reflected in perpendicular, wavy-yellow ribbons on the wet asphalt, and I stood staring with foolish intentness at this phenomenon, wondering how a painter would get the effect in oils. [9]
At length we were in sight of the lights of Fanning Hall. [9]
By-and-by the procession went filing down the steep descent of the main avenue, the flickering rank of lights dimly revealing the lofty walls of rock almost to their point of junction sixty feet overhead. [5]
Dinner at Weathersfield we youngsters had usually found rather an oppressive ceremony, with its shaded lights and precise ritual over which Mr. Kyme presided like a high priest; conversation had been restrained. [9]
The next moment we were walking along in our village; and down toward the river I saw the twinkling lights of the Golden Stag. [5]
You remember how we saw the coast-guards flash their lights here and there, as they searched the sands for me? [11]
Albeit the sun was not yet set, it was presently so dark that lights had been brought in and fifty tapers in the silver candlesticks added to the heat. [10]
The immense house was brilliant with lights shining through its lofty windows. [2]
Besides, her talk was always an education in the fine lights and shadows of this social life. [11]
She hurried along Warren Street without once looking over her shoulder; her feet seemed scarcely to touch the ground, the sound of music was in her ears, the lights sparkled. [9]
The only lights visible were in the low houses lining the banks of the river. [11]
I had a very sweet emotion of self-pity, which took the sting out of my painful discovery that the orchestra of my pleasing life-entertainment was unstringing its instruments, and the lights were being extinguished,--that the show was almost over. [6]
Under the roof vast knots of bats had packed themselves together, thousands in a bunch; the lights disturbed the creatures and they came flocking down by hundreds, squeaking and darting furiously at the candles. [5]
Huck was already upon his watch when the ferryboat's lights went glinting past the wharf. [5]
The incident lights up the Indian situation electrically, and gives one a vivid sense of the strides which the English had made and the mastership they had acquired in the land since the date of Clive's great victory. [5]
As we climbed up and stepped out on this eminence, the Gold Hill lights dropped out of sight at our backs, and the night closed down gloomy and dismal. [5]
Between the trees twinkled lights of cottage candles, and far down flared bright windows of the village stores. [13]
He stepped across to where the old man sat, with his bald head shining like ivory under the gas-jet, and his fine patriarchal length of bearded mask taking picturesque lights and shadows, and put out his hand to him. [8]
They lived according to their lights, they had acted righteously as by their code, they had used him well--well always. [11]
My eyes shifted to the lights of the 'Porcupine' in the distance, and from them again to the figures passing and repassing me on the deck. [11]
An instant, then to me, your low good-bye-- Good-night, good-bye; and then the social reign, The lights, the songs, the flowers--and the pain. [11]
It was forlorn to have to turn out in a strange place at such a time, and the blinking lights in the station made it seem night still. [5]
Strange lights were to be seen about this rock, and though wise men guessed them mortal glimmerings, easily explained, they sufficed to give the headland immunity from invasion. [11]
In the village through which they passed there were red lights and a cheerful smell of smoke. [2]
The stems stood three or four feet apart all over a great hill-slope that was a mile long, and make one think of what the Place de la Concorde would be if its myriad lights were red instead of white and yellow. [5]
I have since thought it a peculiarly amusing trick of fate that the palace of the Russian embassy--the property of the autocrat Nicholas--was obliged to celebrate with a brilliant display of lights the movement for liberty in a sister country. [10]
You could imagine those lights the width of a continent away--and that hidden under the intervening darkness were hills, and winding rivers, and weary wastes of plain and desert--and even then the tremendous vista stretched on, and on, and on!--to the fires and far beyond! [5]
For this hour, this night is among its fellows what a hallowed temple is among other buildings--what the fervent sun is among the other lights of heaven. [10]
In St. Petersburg they used to say there was twenty or thirty thousand people in St. Louis, but I never believed it till I see that wonderful spread of lights at two o'clock that still night. [5]
The effect of these ribbons of alternate sand and water, of the lights and the ocean (or Great Bay) beyond, was exquisite. [4]
Bucklaw was not there: he had other fish to fry, and the ship's lights were gone. [11]
She stood by the window, awaiting his pleasure, watching the white mist as it rolled over the floor of the river, catching glimpses in vivid, saffron blurs of the lights of the Arundel Mill on the farther shore. [9]
The lights of the village twinkled at our feet, and now and then a voice from below was caught and borne upward to us. [9]
And back of the town, far around and abroad over the miles of level campagna, were scattered rows, and circles, and clusters of lights, all glowing like so many gems, and marking where a score of villages were sleeping. [5]
The lights in the streets and shops made them feel yet more desolate, for with their help, night and darkness seemed to come on faster. [12]
But gradually as the street lights burned brighter and familiar sights began to appear, she grew more controlled and became capable of reflection. [9]
The lamps of the station were being lighted five minutes before the express arrived, and as the lights flared up, Orlando entered the waiting-room of the station, with a lady on his arm, and presently showed at the platform doorway, smiling and cheerful. [11]
What wonder that the sordid lights of work-day prudence should pale before the glory of a hope like theirs in the full splendor of its fruition? [5]
The lights in the sky come out and shine through a thin mist-- there is nothing like that mist, it is so fine and soft. [11]
He glances about the room, and then lights a cigarette. [9]
Yes, it was the Rigi-Kulm hotel--the one that occupies the extreme summit, and whose remote little sparkle of lights we had often seen glinting high aloft among the stars from our balcony away down yonder in Lucerne. [5]
All at once the music swelled up voices and laughter were wafted faintly from the pleasure world of lights beyond. [9]
The lights in the little farmhouses near by had long been extinguished. [9]
By ten o'clock the lights were out in the tannery house, but Cynthia was not asleep. [9]
All at once the lights seemed to grow larger, and from the garden of Brinkwort's house came the sharp voice of a soldier saying: "Halt! [11]
He looked at the lights of the village again. [11]
He passed before the lights of Martin's restaurant, the most aristocratic in the city, and stopped. [5]
He was watching the lights of a ship that slowly made its way down the river among the canoes, and his eyes never left it till it had passed beyond the island of Orleans and was lost in the night. [11]
Sometimes I turned the lights low: this gave perspective, you see; and the imagination could play; always, the dim receding ranks of the dead inspired one with weird and fascinating fancies. [5]
And Pierre saw the lights go out. [11]
No--we'll wait till the lights are out--there's no hurry. [5]
And every time the lightning come, there was that bar'l with the blue lights winking around it. [5]
He could sweep the horizon in a wide general outlook, and manage his perspective and his lights and shadows so as to place and accent his special subject with its due relief and just relations. [6]
The weltering river, the fishers and their labour and their songs, the tall dark hills, the deep gloomy pastures, the flaring lights, were then in a dream before me; but I was thinking, planning. [11]
Soon one heard the deep tones of the organ and of chanting men; then one saw a long file of lights approaching through the dim church. [5]
I've come to the conclusion that I am a moth myself, and some of the lights I used to think stars have fallen. [4]
They had made the circle of the hills, and the sparkling lights of the city lay under them like blue diamond points in the twilight of the valley. [9]
The worldlings and the camp-meeting gatherings vie with each other in the display of colored lights and fireworks. [4]
Every lynching-account unsettles the brains of another set of excitable white men, and lights another pyre--115 lynchings last year, 102 inside of 8 months this year; in ten years this will be habit, on these terms. [5]
In another instant the Boreas plunged into what seemed a crooked creek, and the Amaranth's approaching lights were shut out in a moment. [5]
Behind him was the back curtain in which the lights of Orion twinkled aggressively. [11]
That night about ten we hove in sight of the lights of a town away down in a left-hand bend. [5]
Bright lights appeared suddenly in front of her, and she heard the voice of her Corporal saying: "We're here, ma'am, where old Brinkwort built a hospital for one, and that one's yours, Mrs. [11]
This picture brought such an agony of pleasurable suffering that he worked it over and over again in his mind and set it up in new and varied lights, till he wore it threadbare. [5]
And if you stood in a dark room and your neighbors in the next had lights, the shadows on your canvas told queer secrets sometimes! [5]
He chats with stage lights in their dressing-rooms, and attends a ball in the Bowery or a supper at Sherry's with a ready versatility. [9]
The electric arcs, splotches in the veil, revealed on the Common phantom trees; and in the distance, against the blurred lights from the Warren Street stores skirting the park could be seen phantom vehicles, phantom people moving to and fro. [9]
As the train slowed down, she leaned a little out of the window and looked at the shabby houses and shabby streets revealed by the flickering lights in the lamp-posts. [9]
It was half-past six, and the sun had set, before they saw the lights twinkling all yellow on the heights of Fort George. [9]
The tents lay silent in the moonshine, but wayward lights flickered in the sumptuous dusk, and the quiet of the hills hung like a canopy over the bivouac of the little army. [11]
At a given signal thousands of lights appeared round the tiers of seats, and, if the splendor of the entertainment answered at all to that of the Alexandrian spectators, something fine indeed was to be expected. [10]
We come in sight of the little bunch of lights by and by--that was the town, you know--and slid by, about a half a mile out, all right. [5]
All round the side of the room were set coloured lights, shaded and dim. [11]
She suddenly stopped short; at the same time as herself, lights faint and bright were coming along from the south, from the entrance of the street that led to Rhakotis, and down to the water. [10]
Some electric lamps shining through the trees made high lights on the crests of the rapids, while the others near were in shadow and dark. [4]
A new Number Seven,--with electric lights and a bathroom and a brass bed. [9]
More jabber, more servants bearing lights. [4]
Yet I have seen hanging in those plains cities all blue and red with millions of lights showing, and voices, voices everywhere, like the singing of soft masses. [11]
My gran'fadder he say he not need any lights on his cariole when Mathurin ride with him in de night. [11]
Just then I saw the lights of a vessel far off. [11]
They were unremarkable, save in the case of two tall silver candlesticks, which, with their candles at an angle from the musician, gave his face strange lights and shadows. [11]
Had not Dietel run away from the monks' school at Fulda he, too, might have enjoyed the witticisms of these sages, or even been permitted to sit at the same table with the great lights of the Church from Cologne. [10]
In an evening round the fire, when couples begin, to whisper or talk low to each other, it is time to put out the lights. [4]

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