Example Sentences

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She turned, and preceded him down the narrow, shaftlike stairway.

From The Red Cross Barge by Lowndes, Marie Belloc

The lurid sun still shown down, shaftlike through the clouds, and showed her white figure in vivid distinctness.

From What a Man Wills by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

Access was had to these dwellings by a slanting, shaftlike entrance.

From Women of England by James, Bartlett Burleigh

The shaftlike light from the open cabin companion grew pale, then was blotted out by a descending figure.

From The Ice Pilot by Leverage, Henry

By so doing he placed himself high on my list of benefactors; for that little shaftlike implement, magnified by my lively appreciation, became as the very axis of the earth.

From A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography by Beers, Clifford Whittingham