shaft of light
collocation in Englishmeaningsofshaftandlight
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shaft
noun[C]
uk/ʃɑːft/us/ʃæft/
a pole or rod that forms the handle of a tool ...
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light
noun
uk/laɪt/us/laɪt/
the brightness that comes from the sun, fire, etc. and from electrical devices, and that allows things to ...
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(Definition ofshaftandlightfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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There is ashaftoflight—he was acquitted.
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That was not perhaps a blindingshaftoflight.
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What ashaftoflightis such a booklet!
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They were afraid to let theshaftoflightinto their own party.
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It is what he would describe as a gentleshaftoflight.
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Sometimes ashaftoflightstrikes where it is least expected.
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There was a tinyshaftoflightin my noble friend's reply.
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I am ashaftoflightsplit through a prism.
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It is right that ashaftoflight, albeit somewhat dim, should shine again on the subject.
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In all this gloom and misery, there is in the world oneshaftoflightand peace.
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He talked about "ashaftoflight", and was referring to the immediate conversion of a persecutor of the church.
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Those reports cast ashaftoflightthrough the fog of misconception, which so often surrounds this subject.
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My decimal knowledge is not sufficient to transfer that into simple measure, but it throws a littleshaftoflight, at least, on this matter.
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For obvious reasons, a short debate of this character can throw only a mereshaftoflightupon the financial problems that confront local government.
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Ashaftoflightilluminates the floor in front of him.
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The result is an intenseshaftoflightthat can not be easily controlled or modified.
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A skylight in the ceiling allowed a naturalshaftoflightto fall on the mosaic.
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One reads this rather pedestrian and solemn language, but every now and then ashaftoflightis thrown upon the reality of what our prisons are.
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Each pixel on the image plane therefore corresponds to ashaftoflightfrom the original scene.
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With a light spectrum, coming out of the prism, one sees ashaftoflightsurrounded by dark.
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Her body is illuminated and given sculptural form by a strongshaftoflightcoming from the left.
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The scene below was illuminated by a paleshaftoflightand, in numbed silence, the officer watched the chaplain as he signalled to a small party of frightened men.
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Often, the most glittering insight into an age can come almost accidentally from a sideshaftoflighton a work of art or from books or pieces of music.
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Legend holds a miraculousshaftoflightilluminated the spot where her daughter was, and allowed her to be rescued by neighbors.
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