• sealight
• sealights

sealight (suomeksi)

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• (alt form, sea-light, lang=en)
• Light from the sea.
• * (quote-book, year=1834, title=The History of Arabia, author=Andrew Crichton , page=67, passage=Those '''sealights''' have been explained by a diversity of causes ; but the singular brilliancy of the Red Sea seems owing to fish-spawn and animalculae, a conjecture which receives some corroboration from the circumstance that travellers who mention it visited the gulf during the spawning period, — that is, between the latter end of December and the end of February.)
• * (quote-book, year=1892, title=A Princess of Fiji , author=William Churchill, page=210, passage=Twixt starlight and '''sealight''' swiftly we go.)
• * (quote-book, year=2004, title=The Daydreaming Boy, author=Micheline Aharonian Marcom , page=171, passage=I am sure the Lebanon tried to save me with her geography the mountains and cypress and twice-bloomed jasmine and wisteria and red brick roofs and the sweets the delicacies which make the mouth water — with all of her bodied earth and perhaps she did and perhaps I have not died in the sea after a long swim, Juliana at the shore yelling at me to not do it; and the '''sealight''' as always is the most beautiful.)
• A light on the seacoast to warn or guide boats.
• * (quote-book, year=1860, title=All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal - Volume 3, author=(w, Charles Dickens), page=78, passage=When we had crossed from Gaul, guided by the lofty '''sealight''' of Dubræ (Dover, if you will), our mariners cast anchor under the massive walls of the citadel of Rutupiæ, chief port in our remote province of Britain, which is, in your tongue, Richborough, near Sanwich.)
• * (quote-book, year=1890, title=Gleanings After Harvest, Or, Idylls of the Home: Studies and Sketches, author=John Richard Vernon, passage=But reappearing with calm, steadfast ray, A '''sealight''' cleaves the murky, sullen dark. )
• * (quote-book, year=1993, title=History of Mayo - Volume 2, author=J. F. Quinn, page=138, passage=A lighthouse crowns a lofty cliff on the north-east extremity, and though of doubtful value as a '''sealight''' forms a good mark for entering Clew Bay.)