magnesium light
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of magnesium light
First recorded in 1855–60
Example Sentences
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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 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
These photographs, taken rapidly by magnesium light, are not perfect, but they are records.
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion
It was simply a magnesium light, which had been fired by the mechanism within the box and carried up to the kite.
From Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker
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 Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
It was the sudden flash of the photographer's magnesium light, plainly felt by him through his closed lids, that somehow instantly inspired Edward Henry to a definite and ruthless line of action.
From The Regent by Arnold Bennett
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