This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.

They whirled and saw him, standing there dim in the slatted light from the boarded freight wall.

A second scene flashed before his mind, the interior of the garage at the new house and the young Bartlett girl turning startled to meet him, the dim dark and the sudden confusion and fear and then the brightness as Mae had clicked on the light.

I walked around breathing the cold wine of the air until I found a park, and I sat down on a snowy bench where the light was dim and came from the sky.

Food is mostly selected by sight, even in conditions of dim light.

This prompts Grimm to assume a tripartite division of light elves, dark elves and black elves, of which only the latter are identical with dwarves, while the dark elves are an intermediate class, " not so much downright black, as dim, dingy ".

) Douglass described the spirit of those awaiting the proclamation: " We were waiting and listening as for a bolt from the sky ... we were watching ... by the dim light of the stars for the dawn of a new day ... we were longing for the answer to the agonizing prayers of centuries.

The retina of felids also contains a relatively high proportion of rod cells, adapted for perfectly distinguishing moving objects in conditions of dim light, which are complemented by the presence of cone cells for sensing color during the day.

: One-way mirrors work by overwhelming dim transmitted light with bright reflected light.

Most researchers of the subject at the time used the perceived light of a dim phosphorescent surface as " detectors ", although work in the period clearly showed the change in brightness to be a physiological phenomenon rather than some actual change in the level of illumination.

Also, if light poles and firepots are shot, they will dim the area.

In a vision, David's wish was granted and told that from then on, people who lived in the land of Dewi Sant ( Saint David ) " would be forewarned by the dim light of mysterious tapers when and where the death might be expected.

However, using the case of potassium as an example, it was also observed that while a dim blue light was enough to cause a current, even the strongest, brightest red light available with the technology of the time caused no current at all.

Rods function mainly in dim light and provide black-and-white vision, while cones support daytime vision and the perception of color.

However, rods do respond to dim light and mediate lower-resolution, monochromatic vision under very low levels of illumination ( called scotopic vision ).

Night blindness — the inability to see well in dim light — is associated with a deficiency of vitamin A.

Its onset in dim light, dim-light melatonin onset ( DLMO ), at about 21: 00 ( 9 p. m .) can be measured in the blood or the saliva.

If the ambient light is dim enough, flashes of white light from the cracking ice can be observed.

It prefers calcareous soils, in bright light or dim light.

The hairs were black to dark brown in colour in dim light, and fox red in sunlight.

`` Tact '', by its very derivation, implies that its possessor keeps in touch with other people, but the author of Clericis Laicos and Unam Sanctam, the wielder of the two swords, the papal sun of which the imperial moon was but a dim reflection, the peer of Caesar and vice-regent of Christ, was so high above other human beings that he had forgotten what they were like.

The stairway on the right was dark, but there was a wall-switch at the bottom which lighted another dim bulb at the top, and they went up.

Although imitation pearls look the part, they do not have the same weight or smoothness as real pearls, and their luster will also dim greatly.

Many non-dessert dishes are usually considered snacks, not entrees ; that is, they have a similar status to Cantonese dim sum or Spanish tapas.

Women's prospects in employment were dim: they could expect only to gain a very few service-related jobs, and were paid about half of what men were paid for the same work.

In the dim light they mistook the officiating priest for the Emperor and the confusion allowed Leo to snatch a heavy cross from the altar and defend himself.

After " returning from divine contemplations to human evils ", a man " is graceless and looks quite ridiculous when — with his sight still dim and before he has gotten sufficiently accustomed to the surrounding darkness — he is compelled in courtrooms or elsewhere to contend about the shadows of justice or the representations of which they are the shadows, and to dispute about the way these things are understood by men who have never seen justice itself?

Note that although potstickers are sometimes served in dim sum restaurants, they are not considered traditional Cantonese dim sum.

These dumplings are originally Shanghainese so they are not considered traditional Cantonese dim sum.

Because they must be able to see the glowing color of the metal, some blacksmiths work in dim, low-light conditions.

RCA was included in this group ; on 5 February 1940 they demonstrated a system using three conventional tubes combined to form a single image on a plate of glass, but the image was too dim to be useful.

During the circumnavigation of the Earth by Ferdinand Magellan in 1519 – 22, they were described by Antonio Pigafetta as dim clusters of stars.

Thompson's prospects were dim in 1772 but in that year they changed abruptly.

BL Lacertae is the prototype of the BL Lacertae objects, which appear to be dim variable stars but are actually the variable nuclei of elliptical galaxies ; they are similar to quasars.

Because of their shape they are generally dim inside, so many have internal lights with vapor-proof covers.

The second night of their journey, they replaced the side lanterns, having discovered on the first night that they were too dim, with a large spotlight mounted on the front of the Vermont.

Due to their remote and dim habitat, gnateaters are a little-studied and poorly known family of birds, though they are often sought after by birdwatchers.

Because of this location along the line of our galaxy, many clusters and nebulae are found within its borders, but they are dim and there are few galaxies.

This is what the miners, I think, in a dim, subconscious way, have already perceived, for they retain in their minds much of the primitive mentality of pre-civilization days.

Although the orbits of some long-period comets extend farther than that of Sedna, they are too dim to be discovered except when approaching perihelion in the inner Solar System.

* The Dodgy Brothers ( Blackburn and Brooks ), two badly dressed and dim businessmen who appeared in the low-budget and badly-produced television advertisements selling their dodgy products.