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Glow below the mantel
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firelight
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The light of a fire, such as from a campfire or fireplace.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Firelight is a 2012 made for television film drama, which first aired on ABC . The film was directed by Darnell Martin and starred Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Q'orianka Kilcher . It told the story of a group of inmates at a facility for female juvenile delinquents ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
firelight \firelight\ n. the light of a fire (especially in a fireplace); as, lovers sitting together in the firelight.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The room glowed cozy and warm in the firelight . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A man tall and princely-looking was sitting by the hearth where the firelight fell full on him. ▪ Horse brasses had been tacked along the length of ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also fire-light , "light emitted by an open fire," Old English fyrleoht ; see fire (n.) + light (n.).
Usage examples of firelight.
Firelight shone on the dull white bone, revealing the jagged crown where the braincase had been sawed away.
Only when men came into the firelight, towards the breaches, did the muzzles spout flame and the grapeshot crease the ditch floor.
Its dipping, crescent browpiece gleamed, flashing in the darting firelight.
Shouts and cries echoed through the darkness, and shadowy clots of revelers filed along the unbounded edges of their firelight.
The animals strained against the leashed collars, trying to creep forward, their eyes blazing, saliva loose and dripping from their jaws, the wet fangs shining in the firelight.
She studied him against the brightening firelight, crushingly aware of how quickly she had come to desire him.
So musing, presently the firelight died down, and bulky forms of hide-wrapped woodmen sleeping on the floor slowly disappeared in obscurity like ranges of mountains disappearing in the darkness of night.
I ran my hands up into the warm fiery mass as it unraveled from its plait, and the loosened waves of it spilled cinnamon and gold and silver in the firelight as I rubbed the pads of my fingers gently into his scalp.
It was a single large firelit room, almost empty of furniture and so dusty and hung with cobwebs that no one could have lived there for a long long time.
The rafters crept off through the shadows, pushing along toward the firelit window to have a look within.
Her brother turned his head away abruptly and scratched with a stick in the firelit dust.
The cloying darkness sometimes seemed inside her head and sometimes outside in the firelit room.
She sprang off the two steps of the dais into the firelit body of the hall.
It was not a question, and the firelit air was suddenly tight with all those unseen things, with the awareness of all that had passed between them in the realm that surrounded this one.
So he came in the wet dusk past Roke Knoll, and saw bright werelights playing in the rain over the roofs of the Great House, and he entered there and was welcomed by his Masters and companions in the firelit hall.