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light and supper
Traditionally, this dessert will be served with milk perfumed with orange flower water, or it can be served plain with buttermilk in a bowl as a cold light soup for supper.
It is common for social interest and hobby clubs that meet in the evening after normal dinner hours to announce that " a light supper " will be served after the main business of the meeting.
In parts of the rural American South and northern England, the word " dinner " traditionally has been used for the midday meal even if it was a light snack taken to school or work ( and not for supper ).
This now though may be eaten as a snack or a light lunch or supper.
* Night dinner or supper, ¹ the jantar: For most Brazilians, jantar is a light affair, while others dine at night.
* Late supper, ² the ceia: Brazilians eat soups, salads, pasta and what would be eaten at the elevenses if their jantar was a light one early at the evening and it is late at night or dawn.
The vesperna, a light supper in the evening, was abandoned, and a second breakfast was introduced around noon, the prandium.
The Thames Foyer serves breakfast, morning coffee, light lunch and supper, as well as afternoon tea, accompanied by the hotel ’ s resident pianist.
Cucumber sandwiches are most often served for a light snack or at afternoon tea, a formal light meal served at four in the afternoon or early evening before the main supper.
* The Compline, the last of the day's worship was held after 7 p. m. followed by a light supper and then bed.

light and over
The wan light spread over the ground and the valley revealed in the first glimmer the contours of trees and fences and palely shadowed gullies.
The clouds parted and hard gashes of sunlight swooped down to stain the earth with streaks of white and gold light so that the shadows of the running horses flowed like dark streams over the dazzling snow.
Hamilton was bent over his desk, drafting a legal paper by the light of a candle.
Lunch was over, and we walked back to the hotel with the light and dark of Paris screaming at us.
The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern, I rather think, for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity.
Somewhere over there another patrol had need of light.
These cases in which light is already visible at the other end of the tunnel are ones which over the next few years will absorb the bulk of our capital assistance.
We put a light mulch over the seedlings ; ;
Without further discussion he appeared the next morning with a pile of boards sticking over the end of his light truck and proceeded with the paneling, which he then stained and waxed according to his taste.
In series 1, the relative light intensity was varied by varying the distance of the lamp from the reaction cell over the range from 14.7 to 29.2 cm..
`` You and Barney get her over to Rose's before it gets too light.
he'd hung another half of a blanket over the boarded window so no light would show through.
`` Git over by the window while there's light, an' I'll put th' candle out.
he could only see the light coming over the horizon.
Out of the church and into his big car, it tooling over the road with him driving and the headlights sweeping the pike ahead and after he hit college, his expansiveness, the quaint little pine board tourist courts, cabins really, with a cute naked light bulb in the ceiling ( unfrosted and naked as a streetlight, like the one on the corner where you used to play when you were a kid, where you watched the bats swooping in after the bugs, watching in between your bouts at hopscotch ), a room complete with moths pinging the light and the few casual cockroaches cruising the walls, an insect Highway Patrol with feelers waving.
This time B'dikkat smiled pleasantly at the little head which had grown out of Mercer's thigh -- a sleeping child's head, covered with light hair on top and with dainty eyebrows over the resting eyes.
The concept being measured over the circuit, whether sound, light, pressure, temperature, or an exceeded limit, remains from end to end.
The intervening elements react differently at different frequencies of light as they whip in and out of view, causing Alioth to have very strange spectral lines that fluctuate over a period of 5. 1 days.
In the summer of 1993, Dick Zimmerman, a 44-year-old retired broadcasting executive from Larkspur, California, happened to see the episode in which Butt-head joked, “ Hey, Beavis, let ’ s go over to Stewart ’ s house and light firecracker in his cat ’ s butt .” Five days later, a cat was found killed by a firecracker in nearby Santa Cruz.
There is also a fountain ( şadırvan ) where worshipers can perform ritual ablutions before prayer ; the dome over the şadırvan is capped by a skylight which creates a soft, serene light below ; thus playing an important role in the illumination of the large building.
Although the mechanics of ballpoint pens remain relatively unchanged, ink composition has evolved to solve certain problems over the years, resulting in unpredictable sensitivity to light and some extent of fading.
Between a pure black and a very light mulatto over a dozen racial categories would be recognized in conformity with the combinations of hair color, hair texture, eye color, and skin color.
One can solve this problem by granting some degree of moral relativism and accepting that norms may evolve over time and, therefore, one can criticize the continued enforcement of old laws in the light of the current norms.

light and Claire
However, it has since come to light that both H and Claire left the group on the last night of the Steps " Gold: Greatest Hits " tour because of their ongoing unhappiness within the band, although Steps ' official statement stated that the split was caused by their belief that they should end on a high, while they were at their best and could be remembered for being the best of their kind.
Working at a perimeter building, Kapp is horrified to see the light strike the area around his home – rushing home he finds it has killed Claire, his dog and his children.
* Heroes: In episode 3x03, " One of Us, One of Them ," Claire Bennet's biological mother, Meredith, tries to light a Morley in the Bennet home before Sandra Bennet asks her not to smoke in the house.
However, it has since come to light that both H and Claire left the group on the last night of the Steps " Gold: Greatest Hits " tour because of their ongoing unhappiness within the band, although Steps ' official statement stated that the split was caused by their belief that they should end on a high, while they were at their best and could be remembered for being the best of their kind.

light and went
In the dim underwater light they dressed and straightened up the room, and then they went across the hall to the kitchen.
She went into the living room and turned on three lamps, then back into the kitchen where she turned on the ceiling light and the switch that lit the floods on the barn, illuminating the driveway.
He went to a closet to get a light jacket, and took his hat from beside the door.
When the light went their way, they went on across the street.
Hence, those with less pigmented skin survived and had children at higher rates because their skin allowed more UV light for the production of vitamin D. Thus, the skin of those in the group that left the African continent and went far north gradually developed adaptations for relatively greater translucence compared to equatorial hues.
As he went through the tractates, the Mishnah was set forth, but throughout his life some parts were updated as new information came to light.
***" Flashing thunderbolt went down to the halls of slender-ankled Phersephona to bring up into the light of Hades.
According to this view, Saul is only a weak branch ( Gen. Rashi 25: 3 ), owing his kingship not to his own merits, but rather to his grandfather, who had been accustomed to light the streets for those who went to the bet ha-midrash, and had received as his reward the promise that one of his grandsons should sit upon the throne ( Lev.
A Time Traveler who went back 1 year in time would also be displaced by 1 light year.
Engine failures were common, such as Ayrton Senna's huge crash during the 1985 French Grand Prix after the Renault engine in his Lotus failed and he went off backwards at Signes and crashed heavily, fortunately with only light bruising to the driver.
It had one red light on top, but the minute the wheels left the runway, the light went off and that was the last I saw of it.
He dubbed this radiation " calorific rays ", and went on to show that it could be reflected, transmitted, and absorbed just like visible light.
" In November 1851 Bache went to live with Mellon, who was then living in London, and in 1852 was given a contract by Addison, Hollier and Lucas to write light piano pieces ; he turned out these works in considerable numbers.
When the Blue Cloud and the Yellow Cloud rose high in the sky, First Woman saw the light of First Man's fire, and she went out to find it.
In 2006, Witherspoon was among a group of actresses who went to New Orleans, Louisiana in a CDF project to bring to light the needs of Hurricane Katrina victims.
Poplar today is looked at in the light of the past, the importance of the labour movement in the beginning of the century, highlighted by the great strikes and events of 1921 when the Poplar Council went to prison.
Czyz went up in weight, put another string of wins together, and in September 1986, he finally found himself in a ring with an undefeated world champion, IBF light heavyweight champion Slobodan Kacar ( Olympic Gold medallist of 1980 ).
The design of the PORV indicator light was fundamentally flawed, because it implied that the PORV was shut when it went dark.
Thus, all the tickets went to nonresidents without the police having to be selective since no locals would be at the light.
Of course, the real story was not as fantastic as the fictional radio drama – all that had occurred was that the Superior Portland cement company's electrical sub-station suffered a short-circuit with a flash of brilliant light, and all the town's lights went dark.
Residents who were in St. Nazianz as the storm hit said that it went from noon light to midnight darkness in a matter of seconds.
Poulenc went on composing light music like the Quatre chansons pour enfants ( 1934 ) on texts by ( 1934 ), but some of his works were more sombre and austere.

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