Word: firelight
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...Lola was what the Victorians called "a superb piece." She had skin like a Dresden shepherdess, hair like a black velvet shawl, eyes that flashed and flickered like sapphires in firelight. When a man got her Irish up, she cut him across the face with a riding whip. She once fired a pistol at a disappointing lover. What Lola wanted, Lola...
...experimenters around an early air pump, the drama that the glaring light of a forge gives to blacksmith and bystanders. Light was an apt symbol for an age of enlightenment. Painter James Northcote, a contemporary, called Wright "the most famous painter now living for candlelights"-not to mention firelight and moonlight, which Wright often played off in the same picture, as he did in The Blacksmith's Shop...
...Soft firelight, beautiful girl in an at-home long poodle skirt, vest, and shirt. We also have our own holiday dresses, cuddly Icelandic Sheepskins, Indian mirror-encrusted vests, bronze vases, Mexican paper flowers, puzzles, beautiful jewelry, Tang horses, Sari scarves and lots, lots more. Happy Holidays...
...rhymes, off-rhymes, and sight rhymes, and some extremely forceful language, is loosely constructed and lacks the clarity of the other pieces. The police in the last stanza of "The Opposite House, the lion and the kitten in "Central Park," the end of "Fourth of July" set in the firelight in the dead of winter--these are all memorable moments in this collection,and by no means all of them. The short poem "For Theodore Roethke" is a moving testimonial, in which the sea is used in one more imaginative way by Lowell, while the sonnet "1958," an impressionistic series...
...power failed and the train ground to a halt about a mile north of Yonkers. He walked the mile, managed to get a cab home, and watched his children toasting marshmallows in the fireplace and 13-year-old Michelle, after the manner of another century, doing her homework by firelight. Writer Ron Kriss surveyed the situation-and spent the night in his office. Ed Shook, stalled in a commuter train in Grand Central, finally made it home to Larchmont in a rented car at 4 a.m. Bruce Henderson arrived at his home in Glen Ridge, N.J., shortly after the lights...