Transmitted light:
He talked on,
raising and lowering his glass
to admire the light through it ..
-- James Gould Cozzens, Ask Me Tomorrow (1940), ch.5
light
sliced
through thinning trees.
--- Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex (2001)
The sun was beaming through the window
in bright squares
-- Zona Gale, “Bill’s Little Girl”
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Probing light:
The sun was pouring in,
creeping in stealthily-lengthening squares
across his desk.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The I.O.U.” (1920)
The cell door opened and
blinding bars of light
burst in …
-- David McCloskey, Damascus Station (2021)
Now and then a searchlight
fingered the bellies of the clouds
-- James Jones, From Here to Eternity (1951)