Lexicographical Neighbors of Limelighted
Literary usage of Limelighted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Short-ballot Principles by Richard Spencer Childs (1911)
"Another solution — a good one — is to let the legislature — our improved limelighted
legislature — elect the governor and control him, ..."
2. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (1884)
"On the conclusion of these formal proceedings, the field at the back of the
hospital became the scene of further operations, and being limelighted, ..."
3. The Awakening of Woman: Suggestions from the Psychic Side of Feminism by Florence Guertin Tuttle (1915)
"Such women, sensationally limelighted, are in a minority. We do not hear of those
heavy-hearted women whose passionate wish for motherhood is ungranted. ..."
4. Journal of the British Dental Association by British Dental Association (1884)
"The secluded rays of a dark lantern afforded the necessary light to the reader,
while a limelighted magic lantern threw in grand relief on a white screen ..."
5. Our Presidents and Their Office: Including Parallel Lives of the Presidents by William Estabrook Chancellor (1912)
"Live near and east of the limelighted center of population in order to be known
in time. 1880, McKinley in 1896, and Taft in 1908; while New York named Van ..."
6. George Alexander Macfarren: His Life, Works, and Influence by Henry Charles Banister (1891)
"An important feature was to have been the limelighted tableau shown in the course
of this overture, illustrating the progress of the story. ..."
7. Peculiar People in a Pleasant Land: A South African Narrative by Reginald Fenton (1905)
"... shimmered in the indistinctness of the blue and purple heat-mists raised by
the afternoon sun, like limelighted unrealities of a theatrical background. ..."
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