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firelight

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the light of a fire (especially in a fireplace)

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Still, as I mused, the naked room, The alien firelight died away; And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright, unclouded day. Emily Brontë

Safe were those evenings of the pre-war world When firelight shone on green linoleum, I heard the church bells hollowing out the sky, Deep beyond deep, like never-ending stars. John Betjeman

She thought to herself, "This is now." She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago. Laura Ingalls Wilder

...and the lamp having at last resigned itself to death. There was nothing now but firelight in the room, And every time a flame uttered a gasp for breath It flushed her amber skin with the blood of its bloom. Charles Baudelaire

Firelight will not let you read fine stories, but it's warm and won't let you see the dust on the floor. Irish Proverb

What is true by firelight is not always true by daylight. French Proverb

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