A reflection, or footlight, will enhance the beauty of the picture. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainments for Home, Church and School] Reference
Pouring though it was, and grovelling admirer of footlight favourites as. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 28, 1917] Reference
So what crosses the footlight and projects its emotion to me is what I'm listening for. From Wordnik.com. [Piano Pathways: Daniel Pollack, 50 Years Later] Reference
He whistled on a small footlight he had noticed earlier, holding the azoth low enough to keep the driver from seeing it, should he look over his shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [Nightside The Long Sun]
We took off our heavy coats while two batmen used the back of their clasp knives to scrape off the first layers of mud (hardly the most attractive footlight wear) from our boots. From Wordnik.com. [Fanny Goes to War] Reference
Then Ito took the cork back, immediately stopped the bottle and lit a sealing candle, the flame a tiny footlight to his face while he turned the bottle to catch the dropping wax. From Wordnik.com. [December 6]
The footlight effect softened her prominently-boned face and struck some of the over-strong colour from her cheeks -- she showed a faint hint of the prettiness that had attracted the old Squire. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Bread] Reference
The apron may be deep or shallow, and at its front edge is the footlight trough and a masking piece, fireproof always, to shield the eyes of the audience and reflect the footlights onto the stage. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession] Reference
"No one ever accused us of being over-rehearsed," Stephen Stills says at one point, shortly before he's shown tripping over a footlight on the stage and playing flat on his back while he rolls from side to side trying to get himself back up. From Wordnik.com. [Evan Handler: Find the Cost of Freedom (of Speech)] Reference
Delobelle had not acted for a long time; but having, as he said, no right to abandon the stage, he kept his mania alive by clinging to a number of the strolling player's habits, and the supper on returning home was one of them, as was his habit of delaying his return until the last footlight in the boulevard theatres was extinguished. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He had known its theaters when the footlight favorites were. From Wordnik.com. [Mistress Anne] Reference
Temptation in the footlight world is strong, but a woman's pride is stronger. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10] Reference
And we aren't talking about the footlight of a stage or a klieg light on a red carpet. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com News] Reference
To use the torch or hand lantern, a footlight must be employed as a point of reference to the motion. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition] Reference
Mr.. Carteret, on her knees by a refractory footlight, watched with anxiety Mr. Gunning's abrupt departure from the room. From Wordnik.com. [All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches] Reference
The Toyota Avalon's new features include slimmer projector headlights, a larger front grille, and new footlight encasings. From Wordnik.com. [The News is NowPublic.com - World: just in] Reference
"If you've put him off singing I'll never forgive you!" continued Mrs. Carteret, advancing on her knees to the next footlight. From Wordnik.com. [All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches] Reference
There's far more heroism in the attitude of men out here than in the footlight attitude that journalists paint for the public. From Wordnik.com. [Carry On Letters in War-Time] Reference
Dazed and wordless, weak from stage-fright, he permitted himself to be led forth into the terrifying glare of the footlight world. From Wordnik.com. [The Light of the Star A Novel] Reference
The standard photoplays have their exits and entrances across the imaginary footlight line, even in the most stirring mob and battle scenes. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of the Moving Picture] Reference
The staged performances in particular are marvelous to see, with the camera shifting from footlight views to spinning overhead camera angles. From Wordnik.com. [PegasusNews.com stories] Reference
And with every encore Clara Belle seems to shake off five or ten years, until you could almost see what a footlight charmer she must have been. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Torchy] Reference
The lantern is more conveniently swung out upward to the right of the footlight for a dot, to the left for a dash, and raised vertically for front. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition] Reference
As for Caroline, who had been so volatile a soubrette and so happy in the footlight glitter, she turned out to be even a greater success as a Haus-frau. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of Great Musicians]
I had given 'em a good, hot, mixed Princeton paper, -- dog, international law, society, industrial progress, footlight favorites, and the whole business; had. From Wordnik.com. [Heart's Desire] Reference
No man thoroughly in earnest, and with the fate of his country in his hands and no thought but of that, could have any place in his mind for such footlight phrases as these. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays] Reference
Things came one's way or they didn't; and meanwhile one could only look on, and make the most of small compensations, such as watching "the show" at Mrs. Murrett's, and talking over the Lady Ulricas and other footlight figures. From Wordnik.com. [The Reef] Reference
Signor Nitti, parading his bonhomie, championed the cause in a more statesmanlike fashion; he did not, like d'Annunzio, evoke the world's ridicule by his footlight attitudes and those of his faithful supporters who, when his "Admiral" Rizzo abandoned him, when. From Wordnik.com. [The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2] Reference
NEW DELHI: Honda Siel Cars India on Thursday launched its latest version of flagship sedan Accord 3.5L V6 that comes with an electric sunroof and additional luxury features such as ambient light, footlight and two sets of keyless entry for added convenience to customers. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
Degas, Rops, Louis Le Grand, Forain, Monticelli; its painters painted nakedness in footlight effects with blobs for faces and blue shadows where they were needed to conceal the defects of impudent drawing; its composers maundered with both ears spread wide for stray echoes of. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Law] Reference
Also some one threw something that broke one of the electric globes in the footlight row.). From Wordnik.com. [Speech At A Meeting Of The No-Conscription League] Reference
Soho the Dog: Let there be footlight. From Wordnik.com. [Let there be footlight] Reference
Let there be footlight. From Wordnik.com. [Let there be footlight] Reference
An Act reviving footlight club. From Wordnik.com. [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference
'footlight' view of the poet. From Wordnik.com. [Art in England Notes and Studies] Reference
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