"Shed light on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bitter, repining, spirit-haunted exile was far different from the joyous creature who shed light on Pitt. Her spasmodic nature needed his strength; her waywardness, his affectionate control. As for her tart retorts, terrifying to bores and toadies, they only amused him. In truth she brought into his life a beam of the ...
— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose
... himself, Was my pretty doll worth this terrible struggle after all? wouldn't it? Well, I pity that man, for at most he has only done a foolish thing, and he has not passed through life without being a public benefactor. He has held a reversed lamp. While he has walked in the dark himself, he has shed light on the path of others. ...
— Nature and Human Nature • Thomas Chandler Haliburton
... ("to get down from," alighted alighted "to dismount") light ("to ignite," lighted[7] lighted[70] "to shed light on") light ("to settle down as lighted or lit lighted or lit a bird from flight," or "to ...
— Practical Exercises in English • Huber Gray Buehler
... an obscure member of a nation that formerly honored and respected my opinions. The pathway to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on yours, and that you may never experience the humility that the power of the American government has reduced me to, is the wish of him, who, in his native forests, was once as ...
— Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk • Black Hawk
... was usually the private dining-room of the little hostelry. The table had been spread out and was tastefully decorated with paper chrysanthemums, made by the hotel man's daughter. A parlor-lamp and several others shed light on ...
— Dave Porter and the Runaways - Last Days at Oak Hall • Edward Stratemeyer |
