Even the great searchlights on the vessels failed to penetrate the gloom.

The searchlights of both fleets played full upon the Glasgow as she settled lower in the water.

It was a searchlight from Kephez Point at the southern angle of Sari Siglar Bay.

"They'll pick us up with their searchlight in a minute or two," he cried.

And they'll get it too, because everybody in town is out these nights looking at the searchlights down the Hudson.

In using the searchlight without shutter throw the beam in a vertical position and move it through an arc of 180° in a plane at right angles to the line connecting the two stations until acknowledged.

I looked back to the shore, with its winking lights and looming cliffs, and wished I could see by some kind of searchlight into the soul of England on this night of fate.

He said that he could see the Zeppelin balanced on its searchlights like 'a sausage on stilts,' and when it was directly above them, the top of his 'bus was suddenly cleared of people as if by magic, except for one man who put up an umbrella and 'sat tight.'

He saw the room lighted fitfully by the play of searchlights over the city; the sinister entrance from a little balcony through the French widow, of the officer in uniform, his shadow flung ahead of him by the beam of the searchlight.

With mocking eyes he watched the futile searchlight at the Hook.