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Beam of light

noun

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

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"Beam of light" Quotes from Famous Books

... a prey to many swift emotions, but chief of these joy and a thrilling, hopeful expectancy, for amid the deep gloom before me I espied a faint beam of light, and I was praying within myself as, my gaze upon this blessed light, I descended into the deeper shadows. Of necessity I went very slowly and cautiously until, the trees thinning out somewhat, enabled me to make out a black looming shape that gradually resolved itself into a barn; and ...

— Peregrine's Progress • Jeffery Farnol

... in common-sense, otherwise you will not be struck by the contrasts the Comic Spirit perceives, or have it to look to for your consolation. You will, in fact, be standing in that peculiar oblique beam of light, yourself illuminated to the general eye as the very object of chase and doomed quarry of the thing obscure to you. But to feel its presence and to see it is your assurance that many sane and solid minds are with you in what you are experiencing: and this of itself ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

Words linked to "Beam of light" : light, sunray, moonbeam, low beam, moon-ray, sunbeam, shaft of light, laser beam, ray of light, irradiation, heat ray, high beam, visible radiation, moon ray, visible light