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shaft of light

n. a column of light (as from a beacon) [syn: beam, beam of light, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, irradiation]

Usage examples of "shaft of light".

She watched the sharply defined arc of a blood-red sun swell up from the edge of the earth and cast a lurid shaft of light into the valley.

As her eyes adjusted to the gloom, she made out several shadowy helmeted figures crouching over weapons in the darker recesses and behind makeshift parapets of smashed machines and crumpled wreckage A couple of the helmets turned toward her as the shaft of light stabbed briefly from the doorway, but apart from that the figures remained motionless.

Cashel wasn't sure whether the wand was solid or simply a brief shaft of light.

His scream as he disappeared into the shaft of light was drowned by a hum of vibrance as the sun of Krynn reached zenith above the central light-shaft of Thorin, and fireflash occurred-the fireflash of Balladine.

His scream as he disappeared into the shaft of light was drowned by a hum of vibrance as the sun of Krynn reached zenith above the central light-shaft of Thorin, and fireflash occurred—.

For when I set hand on the wall inside there was an answering shaft of light in the interior of the cylinder.

Beyond that shaft of light was utter blackness, and panic assailed the Cimmerian as he saw he would be swept on past that spot of light, and into the unknown blackness again.

Some fifty paces ahead he saw a shaft of light shining down through a crack in the ceiling.

A shaft of light stained the flagstones of the Court as the Hold door opened.

He sloshed off the dirt in a puddle, then rubbed off the rest of the lime crust with his thumb before holding the ring up to a shaft of light.

A pinhole in the upper part of the ring let a tiny shaft of light through to illumine the hours marked on the inner side of the lower half of the ring.

A shaft of light descended in front of Elmara's nose, and within it hung an open book, a book of circular pages, open at one.

Whistling, Briar took it and walked right into a shaft of light that nearly blinded him.