Firelight

Definitions

The light of a fire, such as from a campfire or fireplace.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“He sat on by the cheerful firelight thrown from a bundle of green ash-sticks laid across the dogs; the sticks snapped pleasantly, and hissed out bubbles of sap from their ends.”

“He glanced continually at the diamond-panes of the casement, gleaming dimly in the firelight, and cocked his ear toward the door, as if half expecting to hear⟳ the pad of furtive feet in the corridor without.”

“Dane was startled out of the contemplation of his misery to see⟳ the medic on his knees before their row of canteens, the vial of water purifier held to the firelight for a closer inspection.”

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