He stopped stroking the kitten and looked at her through the dim firelight.
She lay back in the firelight, her beautiful brow and eyes softly illuminated.
The dancing firelight sent shadow-blots and light-spots in a dozen directions with fantastic effect.
The firelight and candlelight did not reach so far as the walls, but left them in soft darkness.
The man stepped into the circle of the firelight, and held out his hand.
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The artist dwelling is designed to foster creativity, through spatial development and sequences reinforced by light - daylight and thefirelightemanating from fireplaces.
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Passing by these huts, one could see sticks offirelightin the gaps between the poles.
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That the fireplace's tile surround is proportional to the bedroom area proper, the area defined and lit by strip windows, establishes daylight andfirelightzones.
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One then had to go in after the event tofirelight; to try to put it on the right lines and manage it properly.
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One scene shows her leading the three to afirelightincantation.
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Wearing a lace-edged petticoat and bed-jacket, she looked particularly pale in the brightfirelight.
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As he sat, some effect of thefirelightthrew a bar of shadow across his face which gave almost the impression of a mask.
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Despite their wish for detachment, they develop a deeply passionate connection during their lovemaking byfirelight.
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In a world limited to candlelight andfirelight, the spectacles of the masques showed audiences a brilliance of illumination they saw nowhere else.
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The image of boats in peril contrasts the cold light of the moon with thefirelightglow of the fishermen's lantern.
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Her sculptural pallor gives way to warm radiance in thefirelight.
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She is the color offirelight.
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They strip and wrestle in thefirelight.
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