magnesium light
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of magnesium light
First recorded in 1855–60
Example Sentences
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The white sun blazed like a magnesium light on blue water, black lava, and fiery soil, roasting, blinding, scintillating, and flushed the red rocks of Maui into glory.
From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
He looked like a ball of magnesium light, white and scintillating, in the unclouded sky.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
And lo and behold, when he turned the magnesium light upon it, the said abyss was just about eight feet deep.
From Madam How and Lady Why by Kingsley, Charles
The dazzling magnesium light enables us all to verify the reality of the phenomenon.
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille
The hill had gone steeper, the chalky road blazed like a magnesium light, and his front wheel began an apparently incurable squeaking.
From The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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