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/ʃæft əv laɪt/ Listen

Shaft of light

noun

A column of light (as from a beacon). Synonyms: beam, beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft.

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... this place?" I asked, clinging to the others and shrinking back in alarm from its sheer edge and bottomless depth, for that this was enormous we could see by the shaft of light which flowed downwards farther ...

— When the World Shook - Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot • H. Rider Haggard

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... trees, trees and trees—great trees rising as high as an arrow shot to the sky, lifting their crowns intertwining their branches, pressing and crowding one against the other, until neither the sunbeam nor shaft of light can penetrate it. ...

— "In Darkest England and The Way Out" • General William Booth

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... winter's morning when the nursery door is shut that even an adventuring sunlight, if it chanced to clamber through the window, would blink and falter in the hazard of these turns. But the sun has sent a substitute better than himself: for is there not a shaft of light along the floor? It can hardly fall from the window or anywhere from ...

— Chimney-Pot Papers • Charles S. Brooks

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... drew away the heavy green curtain that hung across the window. A very pale shaft of light stole in and ...

— Flames • Robert Smythe Hichens

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... that sent down the bucket and reeled up an irate and vociferous Webb. Words abounded without explanations, and blows seemed possible, when Cleghorn, as it were apologetically raised a pitcher and a bowl into the shaft of light that came through the oubliette. "They're all like that, Dick," he protested. "It's your lucky day. I congratulate you." It was a silenced and mollified Webb that clutched at the pots, and noted wisely that every one had ...

— The Collectors • Frank Jewett Mather

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