ancient lights
Britishnoun
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My hands tremble a little as I untangle the ancient lights from one another.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
Perhaps more ancient lights have died out of human faces than modern lights have been kindled to replace them.
From A Cathedral Singer by James Lane Allen
Like spectral lamps, that burn before a tomb, The ancient lights expire; I wave a torch, that floods the lessening gloom With everlasting fire!
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
Mary reflected, but the only repartee that she could conjure at the moment was something about ancient lights which did not seem appropriate.
From Stella Fregelius by Henry Rider Haggard
The explanation of ancient lights and the overhead space wasted in London was too much to go into.
From Impressions of a War Correspondent by George Lynch
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