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Definition of Starlights
1. starlight [n] - See also: starlight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Starlights
Literary usage of Starlights
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by John Timbs (1872)
"The upper half of the shell has seven signal starlights within it, placed upright
upon the tops of those below. Their ingredients are nitre, sulphur, ..."
2. Technical School and College Building: Being a Treatise on the Design and by Edward Cookworthy Robins (1887)
"This room is fitted with desks for sixty-four students, and is lit with two
starlights of fifteen lights each. Physical laboratory, first floor. ..."
3. The Red Horizon by Patrick MacGill (1916)
"In the darkness he was a nebulous dark bulk that sprang into bold relief when
the starlights flared in front. When the flare died out we stumbled forward ..."
4. The Lady of Dardale and Other Poems by Horace Eaton Walker (1886)
"Thou the wife, his cherished bride, Fet-1 not death has taken all, Tender children
crowd thy side, starlights in the darkened pall. ..."
5. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"Lo, as she speaks, a thousand starlights gleam, - Lighted for Heaven's Christmas
day they seem. Sighing, he swears the oath,— the die is cast; ..."
6. Campaigns of a Non-combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend (1866)
"A jaunt after supper often took me far into the country, and the starlights were
softer than one's peaceful thoughts. To be a civilian was a distinguished ..."
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