| 单词 | searchlight |
| 例句 | In fact, she’d seen the plane as it got caught in the searchlights and was hit. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Nina saw the pale searchlights sweeping across the sky, hunting for the German aircraft. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z A searchlight revealed a boy halfway up the anchor chain of a batdeship. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A door opened in the building a few yards away, and an anbaric light came on overhead, swiveling to find them, like a searchlight. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They landed at the Matsika estate, with searchlights trained on them from all sides. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z On that same night the searchlights went on in the guard towers and swept across their single window. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Every so often the green searchlight shot upward. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “The burning plane crashed while the searchlights continued to hold it in their lights.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Giant searchlights—the largest ever made and said to be visible sixty miles away—had been mounted on the Manufactures’ roof and swept the grounds and surrounding neighborhoods. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She was ready to throw her plane into a sideslip if a searchlight caught her, a flight maneuver that allows you to dive very fast and steeply without spinning. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z But he was calm and his mind cut its intention through time like the sharp beam of a searchlight through a dark room. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I was like, “Okay, huh?” but the guy came back and he had another searchlight. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a helicopter, hovering, shining its searchlight down on them. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z It is so dark that even with a searchlight nothing would be visible. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z This time when Malcolm turned round, he saw the beam of a searchlight, brilliant against the gloomy sky, sweeping from left to right. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The German night fighter plane was picking off the line of Po-2s as they lumbered slowly into the waiting beams of the searchlights. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Bright searchlights shone down from the guard towers. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z For a microsecond when he saw Percy, the boy seemed shocked—panicked even, like he’d been caught in a searchlight. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The passengers in the boat with remaining strength waved their arms to be seen by the searchlight scanning the water. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Because there was no electricity in our home or around us, the searchlight was astounding. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Like all the others, this one was surrounded with electrified barbed wire and had towers where guards with searchlights, binoculars, and machine guns kept watch on the prisoners. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z He went over to some rack, and he took these big searchlights off the rack. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There is only the brilliance of the wandering searchlights, and I don’t plan on getting caught in their beams. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z His plane wasn’t equipped with radar, which at that time was too bulky and expensive to fit in any aircraft, so he’d relied on the searchlights to locate the doomed planes that were his targets. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the boat with the searchlight was getting closer. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The boat came nearer, the searchlight sweeping to left and right, almost on course to hit the island, but at the last minute it turned a little to starboard and moved past. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z But I had to tell the truth about it—Uncle Edisto always said, “The truth shines like a searchlight in the midst of the fog.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z When it began to get dark, the helicopters switched on powerful searchlights and trained them on to the galloping giant so as to keep him in sight. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The German antiaircraft searchlights, which completely ruined your night vision, were a horror to the bomber pilots. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The searchlights begin to sweep the dark sky. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z In the evenings, a police chopper with searchlights flew over the Essex community, where Wes had lived a few years earlier. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z With the help of the girls’ drawings and a finger- beam searchlight, we went straight to the things we wanted. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z There are the red bricks, there are the searchlights, there’s the barbed wire, there are the hooks. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The ground was unnaturally bright under the moonless sky—partly from the dream, partly from the searchlights that switched on as the pitch of the alarm changed from a trill to a warning siren. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z A searchlight swept quickly across the bottoms of the thick clouds. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z With full power roaring, it was Nadya’s turn to caper around in the searchlights while Marina climbed out of view, then idled her own engine to glide silently back to the target. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z And so it might have been, if a certain cliff-ghast, busy feasting on a half-dead warrior, had not looked up just as a random searchlight caught the side of the crystal litter. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The searchlights blinded Thalia, and the manticore swatted her away with its tail. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Magdalys glanced at the frightened faces of her friends, then looked up to the back of the wagon, where the magistrate stood staring at her with his searchlight eyes. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Within seconds, the other searchlights caught it in a web of light. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I hold my breath and wait for the searchlight to pass, then run across to the garden. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The searchlights were combing the sky and the antiaircraft guns were firing as usual as the Po-2s approached the enemy lines. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z At night, the helicopters trained searchlights on houses. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He hurries me through the camp, dodging the searchlights, weaving in and out of the trailer homes to avoid unwanted attention. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z From the entryway, I watch as the cars start up, their different lights aimed in all directions, like searchlights going crazy. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The only working searchlights seem to be at the back of the camp. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Company gunmen harassed strikers, shot at them from an armored car and beamed searchlights on their tents at night. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z There’s a slight mist of light, coming through the cracks around the closed drapes, from the searchlight outside, where two men doubtless patrol, I’ve seen them, from above, from behind my curtains, dark shapes, cutouts. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z But Larisa had managed to avoid the antiaircraft searchlights, and the German pilot's aim in the dark wasn’t accurate enough to destroy their plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z At night, German searchlights glided across the black skies. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Same guard towers with searchlights where guards watched you with binoculars, their machine guns at the ready. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z At the station, in the freezing darkness lit only by antiaircraft searchlights looking for Luftwaffe planes to shoot down, one young woman was on patrol. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Bright, blinding searchlights flashed on, aimed at us and at the mound of food, so that when we tried to run away from it, we could not see where we were going. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Lighting up like a thousand fireflies under the camp searchlights. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I grabbed my searchlight and turned its spearing beam up the canyon. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “No searchlights deep in the hills. No one to see us.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The searchlights from the watchtowers sweep the grounds with swaths of light while guards patrol on foot, guns and Tasers at the ready. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z He wanted the searchlight to go away and never come back. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Around the house were a large garden and a wall studded with searchlights and alarms. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The views are dreary: a bare brown hill, a chain-link fence, searchlights stacked on a pole. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Mariya was a hardened combat pilot and knew how to avoid the antiaircraft searchlight beams. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Maybe it's the shock and anger of learning I have to leave, but something wakes up inside me, something as powerful as a searchlight, and I jump up and stamp my feet. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z In the camps there had been constant searchlights lighting the barracks through the cracks in the wood, day and night. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I flatten myself against the aluminum siding of a Mercury Home when a searchlight passes. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z He could only see it because it had a searchlight on the bow, and it was getting very slightly closer every minute. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Some of the faces stopped to peer at us, their eyes rushing like searchlights. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I turned and saw a light in the distance, a searchlight over the sea. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Another plane was crabbing in as low as it could safely fly, two broad searchlight beams stretching and leaping toward the ground before and behind it. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The old woman was terrified of the glaring searchlights and the guns firing at the English planes overhead. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I stick close to the Mercury Homes, avoiding the searchlights. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z He took two steps forward, then froze as a searchlight directed from a tower he hadn’t even seen rolled past, inches away. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The searchlight followed, its beam clearly outlined in the sulphur cloud that trailed the balloon. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z After he went out we saw a searchlight come on and watched the beam move across the sky and then go off and it was dark again. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z It made sense because Dad and the others had radar and searchlights on their boats. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z The searchlight was turning towards the shore, and then shining straight up into the trees. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The moss and leaves are hard like cement beneath my feet, the moon hanging big and low, beams streaming down like searchlights. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The two waited all day in the Rusty Ruins, patches of sunlight crawling across the floor through the crumbling roof, like slow searchlights marking the hours. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Malcolm turned to look and saw the searchlight on a boat that was either the same CCD vessel that nearly caught them before or a similar one. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The others flashed their searchlights down just to make sure. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z When he went into the back to get another, cheaper searchlight, 1 said to Violet, “What next?” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z As the flaming Po-2 touched the ground, the searchlights came back on and caught a second plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The searchlight sweeps across the water, lighting up its own circle of vision. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Pinpricks of light speared up from the ground like miniature searchlights guiding us in for a landing. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Seeing how I was right up front, the candles went searchlight on me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z It was a searchlight—and it was coming from the water close to shore. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The searchlights below the craft made it look as if it were standing on several legs of light and gradually lowering itself to lie down. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z High walls topped with searchlights enclosed his cell block; guards with machine guns patrolled the perimeter. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Here, there was a strongly fortified line of German troops, airfields, tanks, searchlights, headquarters, and machine gun and antiaircraft batteries. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z But Larisa kept mistaking the antiaircraft searchlights on the ground for the headlights of enemy fighter planes. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I would hurry across the few feet of illuminated lawn — the searchlights were back on again, expecting at any moment to feel the bullets rip through me even in advance of their sound. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Every boat I saw, every noise I heard, every helicopter that spanked through the air, every searchlight that spun its bright eye toward us made me jump. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z But Violet was like, “Sure. Do you have those big searchlights? I mean, the really strong ones?” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s opening night, and it feels like an opening because even though it’s still not completely dark, those Hollywood-premiere searchlights are sweeping across the sky. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z A black and white police car was parked in front, with a red glass searchlight on its roof and a radio antenna, like a buggy whip, fastened to the windshield. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Some man with a searchlight looking up between her legs, where she’s been shaved, a mere beardless girl, a trayful of bright sterilized knives, everyone with masks on. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z In the dark, the searchlights and watchtowers are a menacing reminder that we’re locked away. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z It cheered when the big searchlights atop the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building began sweeping the crowd, and when colorful plumes of water—“peacock feathers,” the Tribune called them—began erupting from the MacMonnies Fountain. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z There’s no breeze, my white curtains are like gauze bandages, hanging limp, glimmering in the aura cast by the searchlight that illuminates this house at night, or is there a moon? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The searchlights are off, which is not usual. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The searchlight shone directly at them for seconds that felt like minutes, but then it swung away and the engine noise changed as the steersman opened the throttle and moved off along the flood. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I could barely keep my head above the cold water, but I was alert enough to see the searchlights from above dancing over the lake’s surface. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Dialectical materialism seemed to offer both a searchlight illuminating the dark night of racial oppression and a tool that could be used to end it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the searchlights found it and revealed it to be a large manned balloon. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The gas-powered ship, labeled André on one side and Georges on the other, is detailed with portholes, cannons, deck guns, “two searchlights, six ventilators and an anchor,” according to the catalog. Antiques: Exploring the Art of Louisiana Furniture 2010-12-10T00:01:00Z Every decade or so, movie studios update their animated logo — Universal’s revolving globe, for example, and Fox’s searchlights. Lionsgate Updates Its Animated Logo 2013-04-18T23:14:41Z I’d watch it in the driving rain, and at midnight, when searchlights spun around the Eiffel Tower. Lost in Paris 2011-10-07T18:55:00Z "It was the birthplace of the movie premiere with searchlights crossing the sky, a red carpet from the street to the theater entrance and celebrities being introduced over the loudspeaker." Hollywood on parade in two new exhibits 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z He looked as though a searchlight was inside his face and shining through every pore. Blood vows: Joseph Smith, Mormonism and the invention of American polygamy 2014-04-20T17:00:00Z Through the dense fog, the Germans were flooding them with searchlights—a new intimidation tactic they called “artificial moonlight.” Kurt Vonnegut’s POW nightmare: Inside the World War II battle that shaped “Slaughterhouse Five” 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z In one of Eich’s photographs, a helicopter hovers overhead, partly obscured by the glare of its probing searchlight. “We’re Systematically Being Broken”: Seven Years in a Poor Black Neighborhood in Mississippi 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z As the light pattern activates, its originator gets a heads-up on their phone and the canopy of roving searchlights briefly form a dome in the air above the person's location. Artwork records words, beams them to Philly skies 2012-09-16T18:16:04Z When Alma opened in April, an event punctuated by giant swirling searchlights on the sidewalk, some New York blogs turned up their noses. Brooklyn Bars Celebrate Latin Roots 2010-07-14T19:48:00Z Corregidor’s searchlights had gone dark, and diversionary fire from the island’s guns would soon draw the enemy’s attention, allowing MacArthur to escape. “Keep the flag flying”: Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s escape from the Philippines, 1942 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z Spielberg has often used the sight of a flashlights or searchlights to induce goosebumps in the audience, which fears whatever forces are behind that beam. A guide to Spielberg shout-outs in "Super 8" 2011-06-11T18:01:00Z Maggie Cloud knelt on the floor of St. Mark’s Church, scanning the space in front of her with an outstretched arm, like a searchlight. Gillian Walsh, Taking Dance to a Still Place 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Or getting caught in the searchlight sweep of a magnetar or gamma-ray burst, or a titanic explosion in the galactic center. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z The entrance to the exhibit is marked by a rotating neon searchlight that splashes “Total Art!” on the gallery walls. ‘Total Art’: A new vision of videos at National Museum of Women in the Arts exhibition Inside, a steel IV pole sits in a corner and a surgical lamp the size of a searchlight hangs from the ceiling. Tourists make time for a Philadelphia museum where felons did theirs 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z At every turn, the developers evoke the cages and high walls of the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay; the rain-speckled searchlights; the United States military guards in billowing green ponchos. Video Games: Reviews: Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, FarmVille 2: Country Escape and Monument Valley 2014-04-22T20:57:56Z He spoke with vigor about the “fantastic spectacle” created by the German occupiers when, while the air was filled with echoes of whistling bullets and explosions, enormous military searchlights lit up the night. With a Sound Forged in War, Iannis Xenakis Embraced Chaos 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z I moved to be closer to what seemed to be a mother and her young daughter, impulsively shielding the little girl when the searchlights moved over her. Perspective | An Oscar-winning director goes virtual reality, and it’s utterly thrilling. But is it cinema? 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Marketing Manager, Digital Development searchlight. advise the marketing team on all aspects of digita…. Doves: live at Jodrell Bank 2010-04-01T11:04:00Z Davern said Wagner would not allow the captain to use a searchlight to scan the waters or make a radio call. Review of Natalie Wood's death ignites curiosity 2011-11-19T05:26:17Z A lone, ominous whistle; a searchlight raking the darkness; a throng of tense-bodied men and women looking furtive — such gratifyingly classic notes of noir are sounded before a single word is sung. Review: ‘The Wrong Man’ Sets a Universal Nightmare to Music 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z The Harlem theater was dressed up in searchlights and a red carpet for the event. McCartney performs radio concert at Apollo 2010-12-14T13:01:04Z UK USA UK Jobs in media Head of Business Development searchlight. *based in london *. Channel 4 launches comedy roast shows 2010-04-05T06:00:00Z Lozano-Hemmer is mindful of light's power to intimidate as well as illuminate and the relationship of searchlights with both celebration and entrapment. Artwork records words, beams them to Philly skies 2012-09-16T18:16:04Z That night, he said, Guantánamo Bay was filled with helicopters and ships with their searchlights on, looking for the dream submarine. Bringing Guantánamo to Park Avenue 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z “They are hatched in dark recesses, amid whispers and code words and verbal signals. The footprints of guilt must often be traced with the searchlight of probability.” How an impeachment unfolds: Inside the 1974 Nixon hearings, day by day 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Michael recalled the sensation of "powerful searchlights beamed on me" as he played in one rehearsal in 1957. Michael Tillett obituary 2010-03-17T18:32:00Z She was one of the founders of the International Federation of University Women and of the National Union of Scientific Workers, as well as the inventor of patented anti-aircraft searchlights. What have Ada Lovelace, Caroline Herschel, Rosalind Franklin and Mary Somerville got in common? 2013-03-07T11:00:00Z The hip-hop duet with Bobby Jesus, a street kid who is her talented young studio apprentice, unfurls on a vast chessboard landscape scanned by celebrity klieg lights crossed with police searchlights. 'UH-OH: Frances Stark, 1991-2015' at Hammer Museum is an enthralling midcareer survey 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Under the image of the Fox monolith, illuminated by roving searchlights, a martial battery of snares and bass drum percussion introduces Newman’s brassy, regal fanfare. 'Solo' hits the big screen minus one classic 'Star Wars' moment: the Fox Fanfare 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z I was desperate to hide, as if a searchlight had found me. Modern Love: What Lou Reed Taught Me About Love 2014-03-06T20:37:16Z As building work goes on, razor wire appears atop the wall, and the tower is fitted with a searchlight. New world disorder at Artes Mundi 2010-03-22T22:30:00Z Stoppard has long been a tabloid fixture in England; the spotlight on his relationships sometimes became a searchlight. ‘Tom Stoppard’ Tells of an Enormous Life Spent in Constant Motion 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Its 10 full-scale buildings, surrounded by guard towers and barbed wire, were outfitted with latrines, searchlights and military vehicles. ‘The Terror’ Summons the Ghosts of a Real-Life Horror Story 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z A streak of bright tahini whirred with roasted sweet and hot peppers cuts through the tofu like a searchlight. Restaurant Review: Superiority Burger in the East Village 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Flashlights or searchlights as harbingers of impending doom. A guide to Spielberg shout-outs in "Super 8" 2011-06-11T18:01:00Z Uncertainty is an existential searchlight that Mr. Vo, and many of his peers, hold high on a hunt for new ideas and procedures. Art Review: ?The Ungovernables: 2012 New Museum Triennial? 2012-02-16T23:45:32Z The phrase "British cinema documentary" came to mean a black and white collage of steam locomotives, slag heaps, women in grubby kitchens and men in flat caps, searchlights and bomb damage. A British fleet with no aircraft carrier. Unthinkable! 2010-10-23T06:00:00Z To do all this we need intelligent cynicism, which is not so much a blanket negativity, but a searchlight for the truly positive. In praise of cynicism 2013-07-10T17:27:31Z At regular intervals the whole scene goes dim except for the figure of Jesus, which radiates beams like a searchlight. Art Review: Adding Bells and Whistles to Leonardo 2010-12-05T22:48:00Z During World War II, he recalled, he found the tracers and searchlights that striped and dotted Germany’s night skies “hectically beautiful.” Otto Piene, German Artist of New Modes, Dies at 85 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Between 2003 and 2020, scientists from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing caught almost three million migrating insects from high-altitude searchlight traps on Beihuang Island off the coast of northeast China. Insects are vanishing worldwide – making it harder to grow food 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Marketing Manager, Theatrical & DVD searchlight. responsibility for both theatrical and dvd!. Picasso owned by Andrew Lloyd Webber sets record pre-sale estimate 2010-03-17T18:31:00Z The long walks between locations become increasingly joyless, with probing searchlights and loudspeakers blaring ultimatums at anyone falling behind. Robin Hood – review 2013-07-12T18:26:00Z Deafening dance music blared, as swirling searchlights swept the crowd. Costuming a Kid-Cool World 2011-09-28T21:11:54Z From below, walking among the 48, military-grade searchlights arranged in a perfect grid, it is like being cocooned in a weightless protective cage; a vast light sculpture that rises 15km, cleaving through the Tasmanian sky. Beam in Thine Own Eye – Dark Mofo, Hobart 2013-06-20T02:09:55Z The dust cloud was even there at night, illuminated by the searchlights at ground zero, casting a sinister backlight around the silhouette of the Woolworth building, the pupil in the Eye of Sauron. What I remember about the dust 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z They funnel all of their experimental impulses into just two multi-part songs, Love Like a Sunset and Bankrupt!, which they merge tonight into one prog-rave epic, illustrated with symmetrical searchlights and flashing strobes. Phoenix – review 2013-04-23T14:10:11Z The entire enterprise is housed in a dreary-looking factory sprawl surrounded by barbed wire and identified by the looming 20th Century Fox logo and searchlights. A sly 'Simpsons' opening by graffiti artist Banksy 2010-10-11T17:45:00Z Its famous searchlight logo has shone before some of the biggest movies in Hollywood history, including Alien, Avatar, Die Hard, Home Alone and Planet of the Apes. Disney drops Fox name from 20th Century film studios and Searchlight 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Buildings are seen in vertiginous perspective, searchlights rake the sky from impossibly high towers, bridges fly across vast spaces with gossamer lightness. Art review: ‘Architectural Image, 1920-1950’ 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Time has been passing and things have been changing, and debates have been enlarging, and searchlights have been brightening, so it all fed in. Alex Garland on birth as horror in "Men" 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z The melancholy at the core of Now Is Not the Time does battle with synth-distortion, and Science is an Ibiza-in-east-London extravaganza, with searchlights blinding the audience. Chvrches – review 2013-05-01T17:09:00Z Each song came equipped with its own staging scheme, from edgy roaming searchlights to a sequence of songs about L.A.’s link to Modernist architecture. An unforgettable trip through L.A. from its 'Ambassador' 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z The Imagine Peace Tower, consisting of searchlights reflected upward high into the sky, is located near Reykjavik in Iceland, and was unveiled in 2007 by Ono to symbolize wisdom, healing and joy. Yoko Ono says still getting over Lennon's death 2010-10-08T16:47:00Z The skies are gray by day, and pierced by ominous searchlights at night. Review: With Allied, the Old-School Wartime Melodrama Enters the Modern Age 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Music from a variety of sources and spoken documentary testimony supplemented the stark groupings and bursts of constricted action danced in either semi-darkness or searchlight glare. The struggle, the hopeless fury and the joy of life, all captured by Alvin Ailey Dance 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z They moved like a desperate parade — carrying lunch bags and borrowed tools — into the glare of searchlights, guard dogs and barricades. Essay: Israel-Hamas war: Shocking -- not surprising -- in a land of grief, hate and broken promises 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z Using sound like a searchlight, they patrol the chilly depths. Starving orcas and the fate of Alaska’s disappearing king salmon 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z He then found himself "squinting into a gigantic searchlight" of media attention, he says. Prince Harry’s ghostwriter recounts frenzy around memoir 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z Shortly after 03:00, Atkinson gave the order to open the bomb doors over the "huge furnace, with thousands of searchlights and heavy flak guns blasting away" in the defence of Essen. Their plane went down - how this WW2 Canada crew survived 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z All the camps, whether temporary like Santa Anita or permanent like Manzanar in the Owens Valley, were secured with searchlights, guard towers, barbed wire and armed guards. Forced to live in horse stalls. How one of America's worst injustices played out at Santa Anita 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Watchtowers, staffed with soldiers, have strong searchlights to break through the winter Arctic gloom. Andrey Medvedev: How Russian mercenary made an icy escape to Norway 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z A new system of searchlights, intended to spot nocturnal drones, swept Kyiv’s sky. Russian Airstrikes Leave Ukrainians Few Options but to Endure 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z But her searchlight also finds figures who are perhaps less than household names. From Amelia Earhart to Miuccia Prada, a new book collects history's 'left-handed women' 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z In one direction, encountering events and people from the past has enabled me to construct and refine historical narratives, to shine a scholarly searchlight on forgotten — or suppressed — stories. My Thanksgiving: How testifying for Native Americans made me a witness to history 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z Lonely oboes and searchlight strings plumb a darkness. Review | NSO’s ‘Wind & Wave’ celebrates the sea, but ignores the tide 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Event searchlights crisscrossed the darkened sky, swooping over the table so that bits of light glinted off the wine glass edges. 'Utopian black tie', silver sequins: Inside Orange County Museum of Art's lavish gala 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z A live stream by the state-run tabloid Chutian Metropolis Daily attracted more than 37 million viewers, as the hunting team set up searchlights and combed remaining puddles with fishing nets. ‘Monster’ fish eludes capture as Chinese city drains lake, millions watch 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z This can make colloidal mixtures appear cloudy or opaque, such as the searchlight beams shown in Figure 11.30. Chemistry 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z Streaming out like a cosmic searchlight from the center of the galaxy, M87 is one of nature’s most amazing phenomena, a huge jet of electrons and other particles traveling at nearly the speed of light. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z At night, when the pythons are most active, they drive their Jeep — decked out with searchlights and state-issued tracking equipment — into the Big Cypress Preserve and the Everglades. Everglades python hunt draws hundreds of snake wranglers competing for $24,000 in cash prizes 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z If the opening of the searchlight is 3 feet across, find the depth. Calculus, Vol 2 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z If the light source is located 1.5 feet from the base along the axis of symmetry, and the depth of the searchlight is 3 feet, what should the width of the opening be? Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z A searchlight appears down the track to the east, a looming brilliance that grows larger as it approaches. Ukraine war: A dangerous escape on the 'Rescue Express' 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z The unveiling had all the theatrics of a runway show: sweeping orchestral music, a parting curtain, searchlights beaming onto the stage. It’s been 66 years, and young men are still obsessed with the Eames lounger 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z At one point, he spotted the helicopter and its searchlights. 'Exhausted' walker lost for two nights in Cairngorms 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z We can more readily believe in the Martians making use of huge mirrors for reflecting light, or even huge searchlights, as a means of attracting our attention.” 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: September 2021 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z A searchlight is shaped like a paraboloid of revolution. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z Sheriff’s vehicles with flashing lights could be seen pursuing cattle down streets while helicopters with searchlights loomed overhead. A cattle stampede in Pico Rivera? Yes, you heard that right 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z The automated surveillance network being built on the Greek-Turkish border is aimed at detecting migrants early and deterring them from crossing, with river and land patrols using searchlights and long-range acoustic devices. In post-pandemic Europe, migrants will face digital fortress 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z Philip participated in the clash, operating a searchlight. Prince Philip, Husband of Queen Elizabeth II, Is Dead at 99 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z He was a searchlight control officer, acting in a pivotal role against Italian forces. Prince Philip's military career, World War II bravery: A look back 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z As the officer in charge of the ship's searchlights, he played a crucial role in this decisive night action. Obituary: HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z He said that when he shouted and waved, the patrol boat trained its searchlight on him. Migrant father charged with son’s death on journey to Greece 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z Again, they hoped for a rescue, but again the vessel shone its searchlights and moved on. Migrant father charged with son’s death on journey to Greece 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z The castle was also used for searchlights and guns during World War One and World War Two. Henry VIII's Hurst Castle wall collapses in Lymington 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z The searchlight is so bright that there is no such thing, any more, as obscurity. Moisés Caicedo and the Perils of Too Much Interest 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z But many others succeed, as smugglers dodge police helicopter searchlights in the desert and reach fishing towns on the coast around Dakhla. Boats emerge from Sahara sand to transport migrants to Spain 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Again, they hoped for a rescue, but again the vessel shone its searchlights and moved on. Migrant father charged with son’s death on journey to Greece 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z He said that when he shouted and waved, the patrol boat trained its searchlight on him. Migrant father charged with son’s death on journey to Greece 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z The video released by an activist this week shows Martina Standley approach and apparently touch a searchlight affixed to the SUV in the South Shore neighborhood on Nov. 13, 2019, before she is struck. Video shows woman after being struck by Chicago police SUV 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Instead of standing "apart from reality, acting as a searchlight illuminating it," reason and rational analysis were of little help in understanding how even prosperous, well-educated people think and act in society. Whatever happens this week, our democracy and open society are in critical condition 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z If Black lives mattered, the lights shining from the shining city on the hill would be known to be concentration camp searchlights. The Trump regime defends racism: At least they're being honest for once 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z As night fell, the officers, wearing nightglow vests and armed with searchlights, expanded the search up the hills along the numerous hiking trails. ‘I’m Sorry to Everyone’: In Death, South Korean Mayor Is Tainted by Scandal 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z You could see searchlights up in the air, high up on poles. A brief history of jumping the Glastonbury fence 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z I remember that he said about scientific knowledge that in the passage of time, it was like a searchlight beam expanding and lighting up more and more of the darkness. A Master Storyteller’s Advice for Graduates: ‘Be Brave. Be Kind.’ 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z A Black Hawk helicopter, followed by a smaller medical evacuation helicopter, dropped to rooftop level with its searchlights aimed at the crowd. Former Commanders Fault Trump’s Use of Troops Against Protesters 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Finally, at midnight on Aug. 11, the sledges and tractors arrived in a blaze of searchlights and a rumble of engines. Self-Isolated at the End of the World 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Variety says the 20th Century Fox studio's well-known fanfare theme and searchlight logo will be retained. Disney culls 'Fox' from 20th Century Fox in rebrand 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z When it opened in 1942, security was heavy, with armed guards in towers with machine guns and searchlights. Skeletal remains of Japanese American incarcerated at Manzanar found in mountains 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z “It’s the school as panopticon, and the sweeping searchlight beams into homes, now, and to me, that’s just disastrous to intellectual risk-taking and creativity.” Clear backpacks, monitored emails: life for US students under constant surveillance 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Two hundred searchlights from 34 naval vessels participated in the 30-minute program. From the Archives: Navy searchlights illuminate San Pedro night 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z The camp is surrounded by a flimsy fence and lacks even basic security precautions such as searchlights. Pentagon won’t take over Islamic State prisons if U.S.-allied Kurdish forces withdraw, officials say 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z A helicopter with a searchlight circled our neighborhood for several hours. Opinion | D.C. must keep black and brown communities safe from gun violence 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Underground bunkers, tunnels, searchlight positions and gun emplacements all protected the British fleet from enemy attack. Exploring Scotland's secret wartime tunnel 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z The Loch Ness Investigation Bureau spends a decade Nessie-hunting, positioning still and movie cameras around the loch, and using other techniques including searchlights, infra-red cameras and submarines. Loch Ness monster could be a giant eel, say scientists 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z At 8 p.m., the Navy ships began their searchlight display. From the Archives: Navy searchlights illuminate San Pedro night 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Overhead, three searchlight beams met, forming a soft halo of haze, through which the rain fell in silver sheets. The Night We Landed on the Moon 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z The "paragraph eleven" signal, using semaphore and searchlights, took a while to reach all the ships because they were positioned right across the vast flow. The day the German navy sank its own ships 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z During the day the vessels sent up smoke and at night or in low visibility they fired off starburst shells and used searchlights to help guide the planes on their way. Chatham departure of first trans-Atlantic flight recalled 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z But he had read enough to grasp the dissertationʼs distinction, noting that it “peers out from odd footnotes” in the other books under review, “like a sudden searchlight.” Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and “The Making of Americans” 2005-06-06T04:00:00Z Navy searchlights, the lights were held stationary for 10 minutes to allow photographers to capture the scene. From the Archives: Navy searchlights illuminate San Pedro night 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z The intersection was brightly lighted—two searchlights played on nearby buildings—and at this hour the area was extremely noisy. The Night We Landed on the Moon 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z In 1966, the Park Service announced that it would no longer be borrowing the Army’s searchlights. Perspective | Light ’em up: Army used to train floodlights on Tidal Basin cherry trees 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z According to the Alaska Division of Parks and Recreation, Piedmont Point, a half-mile southeast of the eight-inch gun positions, housed a tactical searchlight, a second observation post, a radar tower and ancillary personnel facilities. Kodiak students step back in time at Fort Abercrombie 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Thomsonʼs association of the dissertation both with a searchlight and with an iceberg has a rightness to it. Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and “The Making of Americans” 2005-06-06T04:00:00Z The woman’s gaze swept across Kass like a searchlight, but she didn’t stop. A street performer falls for a radical privacy advocate in "Skin City" 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z “The searchlight soon revealed a pitch black mass of twisted metal, which heaved high in the air upon the massive waves and then settled back down in a frothing mass of foam,” he wrote. Andrew Fitzgerald, Who Saved Men From a Storm-Sundered Ship, Dies at 87 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z With the help of searchlights from the Israeli side, about half of the White Helmets, exhausted and fearful, eventually made it across the Israeli border by foot. The White Helmets—Syria’s Nobel Rescuers—Have to Be Rescued by Israel 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Law showed students one of the large searchlights, noting the amount of heat they generated when activated. Kodiak students step back in time at Fort Abercrombie 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Eventually, the rescue workers and their families — fragile and exhausted — crossed the Israeli border on foot as searchlights lit up the night sky. International operation evacuates White Helmets rescue workers from Syria 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z “There’s a big searchlight going on right now for the next generation of leadership in this country.” As Trump Consolidates Power, Democrats Confront a Rebellion in Their Ranks 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z Another idea holds that waves, by repeatedly moving across patches of cortex, modulate the sensitivity of neurons so as to sweep a “searchlight” of attention across, say, the brain’s visual processing area. "Traveling" Brain Waves May Be Critical for Cognition 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Investigators said damage to the helicopter included a cracked windshield, a shattered downward vision window and a broken searchlight. 2 teens charged for damaging New Mexico Vietnam War memorial 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z The military post included an artillery bunker, searchlight tower, observation tower and several support structures. Kodiak students step back in time at Fort Abercrombie 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Outside, searchlights from the air swept the streets. Immigrant families face new threat to children’s health: Uncertainty 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z “One night we were towing targets in a B-25, and they were supposed to get the target in the searchlights,” she recalled. Women pilots from WWII return to Texas to celebrate flights 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z Across the English Channel, more than 640,000 British women served in auxiliary services, performing non-combat work such as handling massive searchlights to spot enemy aircraft intent on bombing British cities. From snipers to moms: World War II exhibit focuses on women 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Japanese warships armed with searchlights picked out the Vincennes and opened fire. WWII veteran, 99, survived sinking of USS Vincennes 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z It also bans advertising searchlights, requires sports stadiums and performance areas to extinguish outdoor lights within an hour of the final event of a night ends, and prohibits most neon lighting. Group wants Bend internationally recognized for darkness 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z They didn’t like the gang violence in Lincoln Heights at the time, the gunshots at night, police helicopters with their “night sun” searchlights. Lincoln Heights used to be the neighborhood immigrants got their start. Not anymore. 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z But what is an editorial page for if not to be an occasional beacon, its searchlight aiming above the scrum and scandal of politics. This reckoning for men who abuse and harass is a watershed moment 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Describing the raid, he said: "We saw some lights - afterwards darkness. We tried to get wireless bearings from Germany but we couldn't obtain them. "Now we saw a searchlight, two searchlights - I counted twenty. The 'silent raid' that killed 32 people 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Beaten zone is an infantry term dating to World War I. Shaped like the area a searchlight casts across a flat surface, it refers to where bullets can strike. From the 32nd floor, Stephen Paddock became a killing machine, showing the power of a sniper 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z A man drags her by the arm, doubling himself over to escape the helicopter searchlights scissoring the landscape. Pacific Standard Time LA/LA: 1,100 artists from 45 countries 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z A National Guard unit turned a searchlight on the pitch-dark camp. The veterans were desperate. Gen. MacArthur ordered U.S. troops to attack them. 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z I looked out my bedroom window to see numerous searchlight beams trained on a slow-moving object in the night sky. Essential California: The Pug Queen of L.A. and a rescue dog from Iran 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Swiveling searchlights lit up the night sky a few miles away from where Coachella festivalgoers were jamming along to Lady Gaga's Saturday night performance. From Katy Perry's Easter brunch to celebs lounging poolside, we went inside some of Coachella's parties 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z In 1958 the city, proud of that heritage, banned searchlights, then an up-and-coming outdoor advertising tool. Arizona Sky Village's residents have one rule: 'Turn off your goddamned lights' 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z The press acted the way it was supposed to act: as a searchlight and a disinfectant. The Media’s Rapid Retreat 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Really, it was a prison: Armed guards looked down upon us from sentry towers; their guns pointed inward at us; searchlights lit pathways at night. George Takei: They interned my family. Don’t let them do it to Muslims. 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Black, gray, and silver tones predominate, accented by radar-screen green, searchlight yellow, and, for a happy moment, a multicolored, shimmering aurora borealis. A Weekend of Wagner 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z It’s compatible with the wide range of tools in Milwaukee’s M18 line, which includes everything from bandsaws to rotary hammers to searchlights. The Smartest Cordless Tools for Your Workbench 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z When the ship’s searchlight swept across the 36-foot boat, its flank glowed a dull gray and revealed dozens of legs dangling over the side, making it look a bit like an actual caterpillar. An Up-Close Look at Refugee Rescues on the Mediterranean The 9/11 memorial will once again run its “Tribute in Light,” 88 searchlights that shine as a representation of the Twin Towers, NY1 reports. This Is How The World Is Remembering 9/11 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Brooks is at her best and most persuasive when she holds this question up to her intellectual searchlight. The dangers of blurring the distinction between war and peace 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z The Matson shipping company donated the freight plus funds to help with the restoration effort in order to help the Meitles get the searchlight from their Oregon home to Kodiak. Restored WWII searchlight comes to Kodiak state park 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z There were also minefields, searchlights, high barbed wire fences, and constant patrols. Inside the Daring Mission That Thwarted a Nazi Atomic Bomb Electricity amazed visitors to the 1889 world fair in Paris, where searchlights beamed from the top of the newly constructed Eiffel Tower and colorful fountains were illuminated with electric arc lighting. The City of Lights, When It Was First Lighted 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z The newspaper reported that an undercover officer provided guns, ammunition and searchlight to a suspect and even shot a deer to encourage him to poach. Newspaper raises questions about warden investigation 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z At 0400, three miles above the Pacific seafloor, the searchlight of a power boat swept through a warm June night last year, looking for a second boat, a sailing canoe. The Secrets of the Wave Pilots 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Because of the war, searchlights were canceled above the Biltmore Hotel, where the Oscars took place. Classic Hollywood: When the Oscar show had to go on 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z The secret of success is to seek brighter fireflies wandering well away from the searchlight — that is, young planets still glowing from the heat of formation, in orbits far from their stars. The truth about exoplanets 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z The smuggler ignores the searchlight, the shouts and the warning shots fired by the Greek coast guard, deftly navigating his small white vessel onto a tiny patch of beach among rocks. Sealing the Greek Sea Border is Near Impossible 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z The smuggler ignores the searchlight, the shouts and the warning shots fired by the coast guard, deftly navigating his small white vessel onto a tiny patch of beach among rocks. Despite coast guard patrols, sealing Greek sea border is near impossible 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z There are the real-world ceremonies that seem designed to be photographed and shared online like New York’s Tribute in Light, the powerful searchlights that annually memorialize the downed twin towers. Why the World Still Cries for Paris 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z “We want Buhari to beam his searchlight into the financial activities of the Federal Medical Center.” Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian president, ‘too slow’ to deliver on lofty campaign promises 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z It was exactly as if, on a night by the ocean filled with fireflies and distant stars, the beam of a searchlight swept—narrowly, fiercely, and definitely—right across the bluff. Building Castles on Stars 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z A lone bomber was picked out by searchlights, and mock buildings on the field were blown into the air. Did you know Walt Disney designed the world’s weirdest gas mask? 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z Illuminating the scene was a searchlight mounted on a police helicopter to the delight of the surrounding camera crews from the headquarters of Brazil’s largest news channels, Globo and Record. The day I met Rio’s favela master: the drug lord who championed the poor 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z Among its unusual elements are old Staten Island Ferry searchlights and electrical insulators from the 1890s. Happy trays: A renovated Clifton's cafeteria is set to reopen after nearly four years 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z But capturing that light directly is like trying to spot a firefly close to the beam of a searchlight. Astronomers discover lowest mass exoplanet seen directly 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z While home, they spotted a bunch of searchlights in a field and convinced the elderly man who owned them to donate one to the park and the Kodiak Military History Museum. Giant searchlight given to Alaska park still sits in Oregon 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z Helicopters with searchlights circled overhead, and a group of pastors knelt and prayed across the street. Nine Are Killed in Charleston Church Shooting; Gunman Is Sought 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z “Nash would climb another mountain altogether and from a distant peak would shine a searchlight back on the first peak.” John F. Nash Jr. dies; Nobel laureate’s life story inspired ‘A Beautiful Mind’ 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z As inbound trains stacked up behind it, the Ice Patrol resumed watching for its searchlight to reflect off icy crystals. Taking Aim at Icicles to Keep Trains Moving Into and Out of New York 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z The scene: A searchlight scanning the skies guided partygoers to the packed restaurant as many of the celebrities pulled up to the curb in Audi's flagship sedan. Golden Globes: Liev Schreiber talks about 'Ray Donovan' at Audi party 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z The searchlight would be on one side and the generator that powered it would be on the other. Giant searchlight given to Alaska park still sits in Oregon 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z A new year has barely started and it's shining a harsh searchlight on an international aid system that, like a battered boat, is cracking at its seams. A broken system for a broken people 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z The sound of so many rudely-awakened animals in our wake fills me with dread that searchlights are heading our way. The people pushed out of Ethiopia's fertile farmland 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z “That first night, there was a big altercation across the street,” Shanda said: screaming, sirens, searchlights, a guy jumping the fence - just like a movie. Family in southwest Florida struggles with poverty 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z Sirens blared in the background and a helicopter's searchlight flashed on protesters chanting and standing in the intersection. LAPD orders protesters to disperse in downtown L.A. demonstrations over Ferguson decision 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z If Mecca’s new skyline is impossible to ignore, what with 48 searchlights beaming from the top of the Clock Tower, other changes to the landscape are more insidious. Saudi Arabia Bulldozes Over Its Heritage 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z As night falls, the hunters hitch a powerful searchlight to their jeep's battery. Hunting for India's deadliest man-eating tiger 2014-02-26T20:19:14Z Later, at the lavish awards ceremony, complete with searchlights and a samurai show, she is declared Japan’s best phone answerer. Japan’s Top Voice: High, Polite and on the Phone 2013-12-14T22:02:19Z She caught the eyes of an animal and held the light on it for a few seconds, the beam as steady as a military searchlight. Romesh Gunesekera: “Road Kill.” 2013-11-25T05:00:00Z As they do, energy gets pumped into the star’s atmosphere, and the candle becomes a searchlight. Flare Star Goes Wild In Minutes 2013-07-08T22:15:00.660Z The dams were defended by searchlights, guns, and things called catenary defences - which was basically a metal curtain to stop planes being able to run in and bomb them. Britain's 'explosive' beauty spots 2013-06-30T23:25:38Z She said one way was to swim to the Dutch border down the River Scheldt, although the current was very strong and he risked being picked up by German searchlights from the bank. Gathering century-old memories of wartime Belgium 2013-04-27T00:21:04Z Maciel, 26, tall and lean with searchlight eyes, spoke no Italian. Cardinal Sin 2013-03-11T08:45:00Z The tower—a cylindrical structure of opaque glass inscribed with the words imagine peace in 24 languages—contains 15 searchlights that send a column of light 4,000 m up into the night sky. Five Reasons to Visit Reykjaví 2013-02-01T08:00:00Z Then the questions start and the warm glow hardens into a remorseless searchlight on an individual who clearly does not need this massive public attention. The homeless man and the NYPD cop's boots: how a warm tale turns cold 2012-12-04T15:01:17Z It would be like trying to see a candle sitting next to a searchlight. Lost in Space: A Starless Planet Floats Alone 2012-11-14T13:35:33Z No “ghost” in the brain aims that searchlight. How the brain does "attention" is still unknown 2012-10-10T14:45:03.207Z Robotic searchlights illuminate the night sky over the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia. Day in pictures: 21 September 2012 2012-09-21T12:20:01Z The three made it up to the roof, and despite the searchlights, headed over high barbed-wire fences. Alcatraz escape remains a mystery 2012-06-12T02:42:46Z The wall was illuminated by a searchlight, but no one saw them. Anniversary of a Mystery at Alcatraz 2012-06-09T16:26:27Z The starboard one provides 'juice' for the kitchen; that on the port generates electricity for the searchlights and internal lighting. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z The searchlight of attention opened these valves when the volunteer remembered The Simpson’s. How the brain does "attention" is still unknown 2012-10-10T14:45:03.207Z Standing erect in the full glare of the searchlight, and apart from his companions, a petty officer semaphored the desired information. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z Had the Titanic the means of throwing searchlights around her? Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' 2012-04-17T02:00:14.973Z They climbed two 12-foot, barbed-wire perimeter fences and went to the northeast shoreline — a blind spot out of range of the searchlights and gun towers — where they inflated their raft with the concertina. Anniversary of a Mystery at Alcatraz 2012-06-09T16:26:27Z He had arranged by wireless to detonate three explosive rockets, and the United States Air Station was to reply with a similar signal, while searchlights, directed vertically, would enable the airship to locate the landing-ground. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z The searchlight is one of neuroscience’s great mysteries. How the brain does "attention" is still unknown 2012-10-10T14:45:03.207Z There was no searchlight on board the ship, and the sea was still so rough that, even had it been broad daylight, they would have been hidden by the waves. Submarine U93 2012-04-07T02:00:34.693Z It is fitted with Nordenfeldt and Maxim quick-firing machine guns, and provided with a phonophone and an acetylene searchlight which stands like a fiery dragon at one end of the car. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z It must have looked very much like the straight beam of an enormous searchlight, though very much brighter. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z Leaning well out of the open window, Kenyon peered along the glistening length of tautened cable until parting from the converging rays of the searchlight it vanished into space. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z Second, when there’s no cue, what aims the “searchlight of attention” that humans seem to control freely? How the brain does "attention" is still unknown 2012-10-10T14:45:03.207Z The searchlight followed its course for a few minutes; then was shut off. A Hero of Li?ge 2012-03-16T02:00:21.347Z It took him ten minutes to crawl from the summer house to the veranda, and to have detected this approach Jones, had he been watching, would have needed a searchlight. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z "There were these big searchlights that rotated all night long and they would flash through our window." Pain and redemption of WWII interned Japanese-Americans 2012-02-18T08:11:06Z Even in those moments of peril he found himself thinking he must present a ludicrous sight to the watchers in the airship in the dazzling glare of the searchlight. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z For a moment the searchlight of history falls upon him, and he stands blinking in the unaccustomed glare, and then the light shifts and oblivion swallows him up. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z "The searchlight on the cathedral steeple," shouted Kenneth to his companion. A Hero of Li?ge 2012-03-16T02:00:21.347Z The blade of a searchlight at Fort Hamilton cut great slashes in the night. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z The submarine came close, flashed her searchlight on the boat and on the men in the water, and, after jeering at them, made off. Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 2012-02-04T03:00:16.443Z Throughout the manoeuvre neither the "Golden Hind" nor the Zeebrugge made use of their searchlights, since the dazzling rays might baffle the respective helmsmen and result in a collision. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z As the ship cleared the harbour searchlights were played upon the Waikiki beach where so many enjoyable hours had been spent. Down Under With the Prince 2012-01-29T03:00:07.103Z The turrets were embedded in a solid block of concrete, and here and there were machine guns and searchlight apparatus. A Hero of Li?ge 2012-03-16T02:00:21.347Z Then Clay took out a searchlight and began making signals to those on board. The River Motor Boat Boys on the Mississippi On the Trail to the Gulf 2012-01-20T03:00:10.933Z In her hand she held a pocket electric searchlight, across the front of which had been affixed a circular bit of blue glass. The Blue Lights A Detective Story 2012-01-17T03:00:19.713Z However, everyone enjoyed the illumination of the ships, and particularly the searchlights—then somewhat of a novelty and in which the Mirror specially distinguished herself. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z I saw through its eyes, as by two searchlights illuminating the sordid room. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z They usually have their searchlights with them, and Case is always stumbling over something. The River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence The Lost Channel 2012-01-02T03:00:21.167Z But not one touched the Japanese boat, which lay dark and silent by the boom, though had an electric searchlight been used by some approaching vessel we must have been discovered at once. In the Yellow Sea 2011-12-26T03:00:10.083Z He took down the little blue basket, and quickly placed it over the end of the searchlight. The Blue Lights A Detective Story 2012-01-17T03:00:19.713Z An eccentricity of this restaurant was a searchlight stationed in the balcony. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z I decided that I owed it to myself as an expert even more than to Price and his girl, who was a "governor's daughter," to turn on the searchlight. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z Clay stepped to the door, searchlight in hand, and turned a circle of flame on the face of the newcomer. The River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence The Lost Channel 2012-01-02T03:00:21.167Z But happily scientists, who have turned the searchlight on his deeds, find that his sins have been very greatly exaggerated. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z Suddenly the detective pointed the searchlight toward him and pressed the button which threw on the current. The Blue Lights A Detective Story 2012-01-17T03:00:19.713Z Finally the searchlights of Enslee's machine turned sharp at right angles. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z On each of the four towers at the corners of the quadrangle there had been mounted an apparatus which looked something like a huge searchlight, and underneath it were two real searchlights. The World Masters 2011-11-18T03:00:31.543Z “We can’t read the words,” Clay said, flashing his searchlight over the wall, “but at least it tells us that this is somewhere near the scene of the old-time operations.” The River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence The Lost Channel 2012-01-02T03:00:21.167Z But other predators, like deep-sea dragonfish, patrol using biological searchlights that reflect off of clear flesh, like a flashlight pointed at a window. Observatory: Cloaks of Invisibility, Switched in a Flash 2011-11-14T20:30:56Z Duvall replaced the little basket in the same position in which he had found it, and laid the searchlight upon the dresser. The Blue Lights A Detective Story 2012-01-17T03:00:19.713Z Short Mr Xiao looked earnest, glaring at me intently with his searchlight eyes. Excerpt from ?Leave Me Alone: A Novel of Chengdu? 2011-11-07T00:52:17Z The huge copper tubes above the searchlights on the towers were turned above the harbour. The World Masters 2011-11-18T03:00:31.543Z A searchlight in the latter’s hand revealed Captain Joe and Teddy standing by the cabin door, looking around as if inquiring what it all meant. The River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence The Lost Channel 2012-01-02T03:00:21.167Z As it drifts across the sky it carries the cone of observation with it like the slim beam of an immense searchlight slowly probing space. A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds. Vol.3 No.2 2011-11-02T02:00:14.587Z By placing on the end of the searchlight a paper tube, the light would be invisible except in the direction in which it is pointed—and that, you will remember, is diagonally upward. The Blue Lights A Detective Story 2012-01-17T03:00:19.713Z Think of your mind as a muscle to be developed; think of it as a searchlight that is to reveal the truth to you, and don't cheat it or neglect it. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z Then, as the southern sun began to climb on its upward curve, the eight searchlights on the towers blazed out, looking ghostly white in the twilight. The World Masters 2011-11-18T03:00:31.543Z We ought to explore it in one night with the help of our searchlights.” The River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence The Lost Channel 2012-01-02T03:00:21.167Z The fort later became the maritime mine center for the Army and an important research center for searchlights and other coastal defense equipment, according to the Encyclopedia of New York City. F.Y.I.: Answers to Questions About New York 2011-10-08T02:16:37Z He found everything as he had left it,—the searchlight on the dresser, the colored glass ornaments hanging from their gay ribbons. The Blue Lights A Detective Story 2012-01-17T03:00:19.713Z Many may be, and must be, the good effects of throwing the searchlight upon dark places, but the constant glare of the searchlight bids fair to rob us of our normal vision of life. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z I dislike those searchlights much more than I fear the guns. The World Masters 2011-11-18T03:00:31.543Z Swarming in and out of the building were the natives bearing away everything of value, while others were demolishing the searchlight, which they evidently regarded as an evil spirit, whose powers were harmless by day. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z Powerful searchlights swept unceasingly the sea and sky. Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster 2011-10-02T02:00:12.020Z In another moment he had dropped the glasses, picked up his electric searchlight, and flashed a signal into the darkness. The Blue Lights A Detective Story 2012-01-17T03:00:19.713Z He kept his searchlight ahead and looked about for the source of the noises as he advanced in the darkness. Boy Scouts in the Northwest Fighting Forest Fires 2011-09-22T02:00:25.017Z You see, it is almost impossible to take an accurate aim against a searchlight, while it is perfectly easy to shoot from behind or below them. The World Masters 2011-11-18T03:00:31.543Z This much the defenders saw as the first flash of the searchlight was thrown upon the scene. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z From ambush among the trees behind the shelter searchlights began to play against the woods five hundred yards away, out of which the attack was expected to come. Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls 2011-09-17T02:00:26.183Z He groped his way to the dresser at the opposite side of the room, and felt about for the searchlight which Duvall knew lay within easy reach. The Blue Lights A Detective Story 2012-01-17T03:00:19.713Z When at last he shut off his electric searchlight and dropped from the tunnel through the old cupboard Ned seized his hand and drew him away. Boy Scouts in the Northwest Fighting Forest Fires 2011-09-22T02:00:25.017Z His copy was criticised, his viewpoint scorned, and his personality put under a searchlight that left him seared and shaken. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z Fortunately Terence had the presence of mind to stagger to the remote side of the searchlight hut, where the two lads were protected from the hailstorm of stones. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z Back and forth the searchlights plied, raking the whole sector of forest that bounded the field. Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls 2011-09-17T02:00:26.183Z Suddenly the man, by an almost instantaneous movement, clapped one of the little glass cups over the end of the tube which formed the searchlight, and directed it toward the street. The Blue Lights A Detective Story 2012-01-17T03:00:19.713Z Now, if I turn this searchlight away for an instant, he’ll jump on me, and there you are. Boy Scouts in the Northwest Fighting Forest Fires 2011-09-22T02:00:25.017Z From the direction of Briey a strong searchlight swept across the sky and hesitated near us, and began to wave its cruel arm in restless search in front of the nose of the machine. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z And I tell you what," continued Terence, waxing enthusiastic, for electrical engineering was his strong point, "we brought one of the San Martin's searchlights ashore. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z The men in the shelter, who had stood up to see what the searchlights might disclose, soon sat down again and wrapped their ponchos about themselves more snugly. Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls 2011-09-17T02:00:26.183Z In his hand he still clutched the tube of the searchlight. The Blue Lights A Detective Story 2012-01-17T03:00:19.713Z The light was white, and the boy knew it for what it was—an electric searchlight, such as Ned always carried on his aeroplane trips. Boy Scouts in the Northwest Fighting Forest Fires 2011-09-22T02:00:25.017Z No searchlights moved in the skies; no shells punctured the darkness. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z Now, listen: whatever you do, don't train the searchlight this way till I discharge my rifle. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z Without cessation the searchlights swept back and forth along the belt of woods; for only the briefest interval was any section left in darkness. Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls 2011-09-17T02:00:26.183Z His searchlight enabled him to discern it, lying on the floor to one side of the closet. The Blue Lights A Detective Story 2012-01-17T03:00:19.713Z Frank put his revolver and his searchlight into convenient pockets and set out for the scene of the disturbance, without awakening any of the sleepers. Boy Scouts in the Northwest Fighting Forest Fires 2011-09-22T02:00:25.017Z Two searchlights shoot up into the sky, and stand slim sentinels of blue-white light, undecided in the mist. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z I wish Terence would hurry up with the searchlight; we could then see who the intruders are. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z Beyond the junks lay many cruisers sweeping the starlit night with their quickly moving searchlights. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z She picked up the searchlight and examined it. The Blue Lights A Detective Story 2012-01-17T03:00:19.713Z Frank, knowing the meaning of the look he had received, went to his little tent for his revolver and his electric searchlight and was soon ready for the expedition. Boy Scouts in the Northwest Fighting Forest Fires 2011-09-22T02:00:25.017Z Looking behind, I see that the two searchlights have been extinguished. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z Terence, you had better start the dynamo and see that the searchlight is ready for use. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z At that moment a searchlight illumined the figure in question and the midshipman answering his own question, "Yes, that's him," scrambled on up the steps. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z With a brilliant electric searchlight he examined their bodies and wheels, looking always for the telltale red stains which would identify the kidnappers' car. The Blue Lights A Detective Story 2012-01-17T03:00:19.713Z From first one room to the other they went, Consul Edwards lighting the way with a pocket searchlight. The Blue Grass Seminary Girls on the Water Exciting Adventures on a Summer Cruise Through the Panama Canal 2011-09-05T02:00:21.637Z Upwards stabs a searchlight, and then another and another. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z He also succeeded in rigging up the searchlight salved from the wreck, and after many failures the apparatus worked to perfection. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z The searchlights from the war vessels arose and wavered like huge antennæ feeling for something through the night, now and again paving a golden path from the launch to the ships. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z Duvall had sprung forward, and, as he did so, swept the occupants of the car with his electric searchlight. The Blue Lights A Detective Story 2012-01-17T03:00:19.713Z Her oddly-coloured eyes flashed like a searchlight over me; but though my heart came into my throat in a suffocating way, I had my mask on and I think she could read nothing. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z Shell after shell, red, vicious, and sharp, bursts and bursts above us and around us—protesting with its storm of temper at the vain groping of the searchlight—the useless beauty of the green balls. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z But, contrary to Mr. McKay's expectations, the weather continued bad for nearly a month and, although a sharp look-out was kept by day and the searchlights flashed nightly, no vessel appeared in sight. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z Out of the zone of the searchlights the water was black and lonesome. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z One of the first objects which attracted his attention was an ordinary electric searchlight, of the pocket variety, lying on the man's dresser. The Blue Lights A Detective Story 2012-01-17T03:00:19.713Z The moon was still falling precipitously through the broken sky, and areas of the great seas, where the sweeping searchlight of the moon showed monsters shaping and slowly vanishing, were frightful. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z On the left of Dunkerque a few pale searchlights move slowly across the sky. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z In his natural anxiety and haste, Terence fumbled over his task, but at length the carbons fused and the giant beam of the searchlight threw its dazzling rays seaward. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z On the Tower the searchlight still burned steadily. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z "The searchlight, first of all," replied the detective, "with which you signaled." The Blue Lights A Detective Story 2012-01-17T03:00:19.713Z A searchlight was one of Carver's contributions to the defenses. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z I can picture the lean-nosed shells in their numbered racks—the great glass lenses of the searchlights, the "green-ball" machines loaded with long belts of cartridges. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z When she sees our searchlight she will send some up. The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune 2011-08-27T02:00:19.473Z It goes about with a searchlight, raking over the gutters of the past, and making discoveries. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z Trembling with haste, he fixed it to the searchlight which he took from the bed, and, with a hopeless feeling, approached the window, and began to wave the light frantically in the direction of Passy. The Blue Lights A Detective Story 2012-01-17T03:00:19.713Z The side lights and riding light were filled, trimmed, and put in place, the searchlight tank recharged, and the ice box filled. Four Afloat Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Water 2011-08-11T02:00:15.547Z Well, if a German searchlight holds us, open fire on it at once. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z While Frank and Harry hastened on their errand, Dr. Perkins got the searchlight out of its locker. The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune 2011-08-27T02:00:19.473Z In the searchlight of the frigid dawn I noticed that our advance was blocked by a large glacier, which tumbled barriers of ice boulders into the only available line for a path. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Duvall dropped the searchlight to the floor with a harsh laugh. The Blue Lights A Detective Story 2012-01-17T03:00:19.713Z So they hoped, and with reason, for an electric searchlight, worked by the Naval Brigade under Colonel Ernest Rhodes, was signalling to Kimberley, whose searchlights were plainly visible to the advancing army. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 2011-07-29T02:00:27.053Z Here and there I could see the faint, almost invisible, arm of a searchlight waving evilly across the sky. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z The searchlight was put in place and its wires connected to the storage battery. The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune 2011-08-27T02:00:19.473Z She turned her searchlight right on to the vessel lying awash, and never left it. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z But I do not 144 believe a submarine would show anything less than a searchlight in traveling on the surface at night.” Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z A motor whirred past, its lamps sending a brief glare that was like a searchlight. Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z At Ostend I can see a vague cluster of searchlights moving restlessly and rather undecidedly across the sky, dredging the sky with their slim white arms in an evil and terrifying manner. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z There was a jarring shock, and then a downward rush through the night, the searchlight cutting a blazing white path through the blackness. The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune 2011-08-27T02:00:19.473Z But the terrible glare of the searchlight remained full upon the long, narrow deck upon which the officer stood. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z Then Dewey had to turn the searchlights on them and keep their vessels covered, to prevent any boat leaving at night without his knowledge. Lest We Forget World War Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:28.183Z French astronomer Pierre Jules César Janssen used the searchlight at the top of the Eiffel Tower to demonstrate that the spectral lines of oxygen found in the sun's rays were purely of terrestrial origin. Paris: City of Light and Cosmic Rays 2011-07-04T14:15:00.943Z Ahead of us now we can see the tall powerful searchlights of Zeebrugge moving in slow sweeps over the sky. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z All this was seen by the searchlight, which Dr. Perkins had kept concentrated on the yacht while the last act of this ocean drama was being consummated. The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune 2011-08-27T02:00:19.473Z When darkness closed she just ran up closer and played about with a searchlight. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z The searchlights were thrown upon them, and the guns of the Belgian regiments fired upon them. Lest We Forget World War Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:28.183Z It's a way of turning the searchlights away from the political difficulties of tuition fees and budget cuts and training them on universities instead. Student choice 2011-06-28T20:01:44Z In front of us lies the waving line of searchlights. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z As he finished this speech, Dr. Perkins extinguished the searchlight, which had still been playing on the oil-streaked waters which marked the burial spot of the ill-fated Wanderer. The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune 2011-08-27T02:00:19.473Z A searchlight was playing over the water, moving at intervals, then it would become stationary. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z Observe, the curtains are not quite closed, and this is about the time when they turn on the searchlight at the barracks. All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z The searchlights had been unmasked and were directed towards the narrow gap in the coral reef. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z In addition to the "Lucas Cranwell" lights are five or six other powerful searchlights standing in a circle round the town, moving to and fro in a languid and sensuous way. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z As the searchlight was extinguished Harry peered out into the darkness with straining eyes. The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune 2011-08-27T02:00:19.473Z Finally a larger light, something in the nature of a small searchlight, detached itself from the others, and came directly towards the opening. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z Beyond the turf of the glacis, where almost every blade of grass stood up under the sweeping rays of the searchlights as if made of gleaming silver, were dense masses of grey-coated, spike-helmeted Germans. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z In the lagoon the Eureka and the Simplicita directed their searchlights upon the shore. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z There is something strangely alive about these searchlights. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z As he flew his craft in the direction of the feeble beacon of distress, Dr. Perkins once more switched on the searchlight. The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune 2011-08-27T02:00:19.473Z There were many actions in his life that would not bear the searchlight. The Sweep Winner 2011-06-24T02:00:21.067Z The blackness of the night was pierced by the dazzling rays of powerful searchlights and punctuated by the rapid flashes from the heavy ordnance. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z In half an hour they were high and dry, lying directly in the rays of the larger monitor's searchlight. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z The cunning searchlights haunt the midnight skies, Where chains of emerald balls of fire rise, To mingle with the spark of bursting shells— High in the darkness where the bomber dwells! 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z Ben had also invested in a new device, a submarine searchlight. The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune 2011-08-27T02:00:19.473Z Outside the searchlights pointed, and now and again the sky showed the alien star of a shrapnel-burst. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z A push of a button and the small but powerful searchlight, mounted amidships on the cabin roof, gleamed out. The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise The Cave in the Mountains 2011-06-16T02:00:18.377Z Without any apparent attempt at concealment two searchlights had been set in position. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z There is a visible menace in searchlights, and we avoid them like poison unless it is essential to go near. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z He thought his name would be forgotten, but posterity in an excess of remembrance has suffered no corner of his soul to escape the searchlight. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z The searchlight fellows down below were dazzling away to beat the band. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z You need a harbor pilot and a searchlight, to say nothing of a chart and an automobile road map. The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise The Cave in the Mountains 2011-06-16T02:00:18.377Z Almost simultaneously the searchlights on the Paradox went out. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z There was a strong searchlight barrier by the sea; there was none behind the German front lines. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z In the future, man will turn the searchlight of investigation upon electricity as the universal operating cause of all physical phenomena. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z Away to the west the spoke of a single searchlight could be seen creeping this way and that like a snail's horn. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z “Switch on the searchlight and see if we can discover where we are,” suggested Belle. The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise The Cave in the Mountains 2011-06-16T02:00:18.377Z Deceived by the position of the searchlight on shore both boats headed towards the glare like moths to a lighted candle. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z The Ostend searchlights are vainly looking for us; our engines have been heard. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z The sentry in charge of the searchlight said he had also heard the commotion in the water, and that was why he switched on the light. Two Boys of the Battleship or For the Honor of Uncle Sam 2011-06-07T02:00:13.313Z Furthermore, photometric measurements on the different portions of the beam as seen from a position near the searchlight show that the beam is actually brighter at its outer termination than near its origin. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z Just then, into the radiance of the searchlight stepped a man clad in yellow oilskins, rubber boots and with a sou’wester on his head. The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise The Cave in the Mountains 2011-06-16T02:00:18.377Z Lights flashed upon the scene, revealing the presence of two searchlight projectors set up on platforms almost above the heads of the British fugitives. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z If you went by the overland route you had only the searchlights at your objective to tackle. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z Great searchlights from the battleship illuminated a scene that was one of great activity. Two Boys of the Battleship or For the Honor of Uncle Sam 2011-06-07T02:00:13.313Z It appears that the great enemy of night raiders is the searchlight. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z The searchlight of memory struck full upon my thought at that time: And they said my mother was like this! A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z Moving as rapidly as their sense of caution would permit, they again skirted the searchlight station and picked up the telephone wire trail in the woods beyond. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z There's one of their patrol machines with a searchlight! 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z It was not very dark, though it was about midnight, for the moon shone brightly, and now the battleship had brought to bear on the scene all her powerful searchlights. Two Boys of the Battleship or For the Honor of Uncle Sam 2011-06-07T02:00:13.313Z These conditions obtain ideally in the case of the searchlight beam. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z There was a balloon section accompanying this, and searchlights, wireless instruments, and cables for field-telegraphy were carried in the waggons. The Invasion 2011-05-20T02:00:29.260Z Our fellows will go for the searchlight, thinking that they are being worked from the Pelikan. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z While far far away to the east over remote Ghent ghostly searchlights dance in a goblin measure. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z Over the mainland a black cloud billowed, and as she looked lightning whipped out of it and flashed for a moment like a searchlight. The Campfire Girls on Station Island or, The Wireless from the Steam Yacht 2011-05-19T02:00:07.110Z The angle at which the beam must diverge to appear parallel to an observer depends upon the distance of the observer from the searchlight. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z The electric searchlights had increased to at least half a dozen. The Invasion 2011-05-20T02:00:29.260Z Consequently the searchlights had been temporarily shut off and a signalling lamp brought into play to frame a fitting reply to the Englishmen's single-worded challenge. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z Again the searchlights will swing over to us and will blind us. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z Gerald propelled the little craft carefully to a stump that stood up distinct against the gloom under the searchlight in the bow, and reaching it took out his pocket compass. Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z To summarize, the apparent abrupt ending of a searchlight beam is purely an optical illusion. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z There was a searchlight on the knoll, but at the first sweep of its ray it was absolutely demolished by a blizzard of shrapnel. The Invasion 2011-05-20T02:00:29.260Z At a distance of a quarter of a mile from the searchlight position the path bent obliquely towards the lagoon. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z To the right lies the dimly seen line of the coast, fringed, as far as we can see, with a line of searchlights waving outwards over the sea. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z Bacteriology, the great searchlight of medicine, as we have it today, was then practically unknown. Little Pills, An Army Story Being Some Experiences of a United States Army Medical Officer on the Frontier Nearly a Half Century Ago 2011-04-28T02:00:13.453Z Experiments indicate that it is more difficult to pick up a black craft than a gray or white one and also it is more difficult to hold it in the beam of the searchlight. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z Men had guns without ammunition; cavalry and artillery were without horses; engineers only half equipped; volunteers with no transport whatever; balloon sections without balloons, and searchlight units vainly trying to obtain the necessary instruments. The Invasion 2011-05-20T02:00:29.260Z Masked battery 400 yards to northward of searchlights. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z We are almost 8000 feet up, and with the fringe of searchlights as a barrier I am not easy in my mind. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z Gradually the firing ceased; but the more distant forts were using their searchlights, too. The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade 2011-04-23T02:00:05.477Z Portable electric searchlights are most valuable, especially for detecting the enemy’s movements at some distance; but their use Illumination. will naturally always be restricted. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z An electric searchlight being switched on, the 'Van Gysen' was discovered steaming up the river at a considerable speed. The Invasion 2011-05-20T02:00:29.260Z On the high ground at the back of the torpedo station searchlights were mounted. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z The searchlights, running from the earth to our level and past us, join us to the ground and give us a measure of distance and an opportunity of contrast. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z With a gasp of apprehension, Stewart swung the box around so that it screened them from the searchlight, and kept on swimming with all his strength. The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade 2011-04-23T02:00:05.477Z At night the successful co-operation of the searchlight is also in many cases necessary. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z None of the dockyard and naval craft present were equipped with searchlights. The Invasion 2011-05-20T02:00:29.260Z Sweeping round a bend in the river into the glare of the searchlights was the Pelikan. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z Now are we towering high over the black edge of the coast in the pinnacles of the slim searchlights which challenge us in front, and move to the right and left of us. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z Low as the whistle was, it reached the boat—or perhaps it was mere chance that brought the searchlight sweeping round just as the girl rose in the water and started toward the shore. The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade 2011-04-23T02:00:05.477Z But wherever it is possible the defender will provide for a space of 1000 yds. or so, swept by fire and illuminated by searchlights, in front of his lines. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z As it was reached, the police boat came into view, its searchlight trying to pick up the quarry. The Black Star A Detective Story 2011-04-14T02:01:01.883Z Lights, too, began to glimmer through the hatchways, while with admirable promptness the electrical staff set to work to renew the carbons of the searchlights and to test the circuits of the internal lighting system. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z The most noteworthy feature is a vicious-looking row of four searchlights, near together and spaced at even intervals, like a line of footlights at a theatre. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z Then he was up again and after her, across the cruel stones of the shore, toward the darkness of the wood and safety—one yard—two yards—— And always the searchlight beat upon them mercilessly. The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade 2011-04-23T02:00:05.477Z The lantern higher up is supplied with powerful electric searchlights, and on the very summit is a small area utilized chiefly for scientific observations. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z Its searchlight flashed upon the bridge, and its siren bellowed. The Black Star A Detective Story 2011-04-14T02:01:01.883Z For oh, to hear the mad guns go, And watch the starry night aglow With radiance of crackling fires And the white searchlight's quivering spires! Two Fishers, and Other Poems 2011-04-08T02:00:09.700Z Again the searchlight stabs the sky four times and goes out. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z The boat was at the bank; its occupants were leaping out, rifles in hand; the searchlight swept up and down. The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade 2011-04-23T02:00:05.477Z They required self-aggrandizement and profit, and beneath the cloak of Principle they hid their unworthy desires from the searchlight of publicity. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z For a moment the searchlight rested on the launch, which continued on its course. The Black Star A Detective Story 2011-04-14T02:01:01.883Z While that dazzling glow from the acetylene searchlight shone in their faces, none of the boys could make out anything with certainty. Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence 2011-04-01T02:00:41.017Z The searchlights do not go out, and, assisted by our green light, sweep on to the machine. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z Again the big guns in the armored turrets were bellowing forth their wrath; and then the searchlights stabbed suddenly up into the sky, sweeping this way and that. 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