Do we say light or lite

light 43747 occurrences

That's no way to run, not showing a masthead light or even blowing a whistle.

The light streamed out and showed the face of the man.

Bob had never looked at it in just that light, and he was pretty well ashamed of himself when he was allowed to go home, with an admonition that he must mend his ways or be liable to expulsion.

The captain, he knew, would make light of the prank.

That the sale of parliamentary seatsso shocking to our reformed eyeswas not regarded in the same light at the date of the Irish Union is certain, and in questions of ethics contemporary judgment is the first and most important point to be considered.

Although Catholics were excluded from sitting in Parliament the law which forbade their doing so did not preclude their being returned as members, and it had long been thought that policy required the election of some Catholic, if only that the whole anomaly of the situation might be brought into the full light of day.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS THE ANSWER WAS A BLINDING FLASH OF LIGHT AND A SHOT.

His tone was light; but the woman, who seemed to labour under strong emotion, either failed to notice this or was content to put up with it.

His jaw fell at that, and had there been light by which to see him he would have looked foolish.

'Butmy charmer, let us parley,' he remonstrated, striving to maintain a light tone.

The lines of her head and figure too, half guessed and half revealed, and wholly light and graceful, had caught his fancy and created a desire to subjugate her.

Sir George could see so much by the light which shone from a window and fell on a group of five or six persons, who stood about the nearest door and talked in low, excited voices.

I would kill him!' Sir George tried to free his mind from the influence of her passion and her eyes, from the nightmare of the room and the body, and to see things in a sane light.

'Now perhaps you will walk into the next room, where there is a light, and we can be free from that scum.'

Eventually they presented themselves in that light to the person most nearly concernedby name Mr. Peter Fishwick; and moving him to grasp at the forlorn hope presented by a vacant stewardship at one of the colleges, brought him by coach to Oxford.

But she had neither smile nor blush for him; on the contrary, when the dim light that entered the dingy staircase disclosed who awaited her, she drew back a pace with a look of dislike and embarrassment.

Or the next knight-errant you light upon may prove something ruder thanCaptain Berkeley!'

She was the handsomest piece they had seen, they muttered, for many a dayas alien, from the other two as light from darkness; and it is not in man's nature to see beauty humiliated, and feel no unpleasant emotion.

Raising his half-filled glass to the light, and rolling the last mouthful on his tongue, 'I am afraid,' he said, 'that what I heard in town was true?' 'What was it?'

He rose and began to pace the room, choosing a part where his face evaded the light of the candles that stood in heavy silver sconces on the dark mahogany.

For a man who had descended the stairs an hour before, hipped to the last degree, with his mind on a pistol, it must be confessed that he went up with a light step; albeit, in a mighty obfuscation, as Dr. Johnson might have put it.

The yard was covered with a thin coating of light snow, which made the appearance of it very different from what it had been when they had left it.

But what the new apprentice heard about the mill and his predecessors was not encouraging; so the first night when it was his duty to watch in the mill he took care to provide himself with an axe and a prayer-book, and while he kept one eye on the whirring, humming wheels he kept the other on the good book, which he read by the flickering light of a candle set on a table.

Often they went by the name of the Judas Light or the Judas Candle; and sometimes small waxen figures of Judas were hung on them.

With the last yeeres brand Light the neiv block" And, again, in his verses, "Ceremonies for Candlemasse Day": "Kindle the Christmas brand, and then Till sunne-set let it burne; Which quencht, then lay it up agen, Till Christmas next returne.

lite 26 occurrences

You cannot succeed as a writer of "lite comidy" if you continue to weave such tragic spells.

"If a sertin lite complexion man wouldn't run his hands down into sugar barrels so often, when visitin' grosery stores, it would be money in the pocket of the Skeensboro merchants" "Query.

" Ewers, lite as a fether, HIRAM GREEN, Esq., Lait Gustise of the Peece.

If a red-headed woman was alowed to shed her lite, the proffessors would be throwed into the shades rite lively.

" Various plants are associated with Whitsuntide, and according to Chaucer, in his "Romaunt of the Rose": "Have hatte of floures fresh as May, Chapelett of roses of Whitsunday, For sich array be costeth but lite.

"Your Honor, this is a motion for an order to show cause why an injunction pendente lite should not issue restraining the sale of the assets, of this corporation to another in fraud of its minority stockholdersand for a receiver.

"If this complainant is going to be defrauded I will enjoin this contract pendente lite and appoint a receiver.

"Mister Lanyard sed as 'ow 'e might be quite lite, but 'e'd 'urry all 'e could, ma'am, and would the lidy please wite.

A creature hopelessly commonplace, resigned, and unemotional, to her enquiry for Monsieur Lanyard he returned the discounted response: Mister Lanyard was hout, 'e might not be 'ome till quite lite, but 'ad left word that if a lidy called she was to be awsked to wite.

Adv. pendente lite [Lat.]; sub spe rati [Lat.].

Adv. pendente lite [Lat.].

But he ne left nought for no rain ne thonder, In sikenesse and in mischief to visite The ferrest in his parish, moche and lite, Upon his fete, and in his hand a staf.

" [3770] "Si dat oluscula Mensa minuscula pace referta," "Ne pete grandia, Lautaque prandia lite repleta.

Eris dea is settled in our tents, Omnia de lite, opposing wit to wit, wealth to wealth, strength to strength, fortunes to fortunes, friends to friends, as at a sea-fight, we turn our broadsides, or two millstones with continual attrition, we fire ourselves, or break another's backs, and both are ruined and consumed in the end.

Catus cum mure, duo galli simul in aede, Et glotes binae nunquam vivunt sine lite.

This is an 'argumentum in circulo', and 'petitio rei sub lite'.

* * 64 Mars so' lar (ler) Ve' nus plan' ets Mer' cu ry di am' e ter com' pass es sat' el lite tel' e scope grad' u al ly in' ter est ing cir cum' fer ence THE SUN'S FAMILY "Please tell me a story, Frank" said Philip, as the two boys sat in the shade of a large tree.

"And though I stood abasit for a lite, No wonder was; for why?

We're kind of po-lite to these little efforts of the Governmentkind of want to encourage 'em.

She looked so full of life, and her interest in all things was so keen and eager that I never for a moment thought her old or linked to her lite the imagination of death.

I should be Glad I coold Com Rite home with my slaves, for my vesiel will not Last to proceed farr we can see Day Lite al Roond her bow under Deck....

There was a regular tariff on the lives of free Romans, free Goths, guests, and trusted men of the King; and if the deceased were merely a LITE, or freeman of the lowest rank, it was just possible that the gold collar might purchase its master's life, provided he were not too proud to part with the ancestral badge.

A genuine Cracker appeared, and seeing our dripping forms in the electric flash, he quietly said, "Lite strangers, lite, jest in time, plenty of hog and hominy."

A genuine Cracker appeared, and seeing our dripping forms in the electric flash, he quietly said, "Lite strangers, lite, jest in time, plenty of hog and hominy."

EDWARD JESOPThe roast pig"The place of Scripture"The bewitched "cannoe"The old cart horseOptical illusions "Edward Jesop aged about 29 years testifieth that being at The: Disburrows house at Compoh sometime in ye beginning of last winter in ye evening he asked me to tarry & sup with him, & their I saw a pigg roasting that looked verry well, but when it came to ye table (where we had a very good lite)

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