and bright though they all were, they could not possibly compete for her interest with Papa, whose mind -- although he never tried to dazzle or patronize lesser lights with it -- naturally eclipsed theirs and made them seem to her even younger than they were.

Kate had no idea what they were talking of, although she had seen the blue lights and strange fires burning and winking on the ridges at night, had heard horsemen on the River Road and hill trails through the nights till dawn.

There were lights glinting in the city, too, even though it was now dark enough for a few stars to become visible.

As the lights came up, Andy could see that a number of patrons were already on their way toward the exit.

Competing machines such as the Altair 8800 generally were programmed with front-mounted toggle switches and used indicator lights ( red LEDs, most commonly ) for output, and had to be extended with separate hardware to allow connection to a computer terminal or a teletypewriter machine.

At 19: 00 the identifying lights in the mizenmasts of the British fleet were lit.

Electric lights were in use by 1888.

Among the leading lights in comedy films of the next decade were Woody Allen and Mel Brooks.

Except in times of danger, the lights were to be placed outside one's door, on the opposite side of the Mezuza, or in the window closest to the street.

In her journal for Christmas Eve 1832, the delighted 13-year-old princess wrote, " After dinner … we then went into the drawing-room near the dining-room … There were two large round tables on which were placed two trees hung with lights and sugar ornaments.

The racks were themselves packaged into a single large mainframe case, with a hexagonal control panel containing switches and lights mounted to lay at table-top height at one end of the mainframe.

This early ninth century military leader is commemorated in this way because he is said to have ordered huge illuminated lanterns to be placed at the top of hills ; and when the curious Emishi approached these bright lights to investigate, they were captured and subdued by Tamuramaro's men.

The main sources used were modified arc lights made for street lighting.

Large mercury vapour tube lights ( Cooper-Hewitts ) were also used in racks placed in the same way.

Two days after her death, the lights of the Empire State Building were extinguished for 15 minutes in her memory.

* In 1947, arc lights were installed at Fenway Park.

The Boston Red Sox were the third-to-last team out of 16 major league teams to have lights in their home park.

Fluorescent lights were first available to the public at the 1939 New York World's Fair.

Sound, lights, and visual setups were brought along to every gig of the tour.

Before modern strobe lights, lenses were used to concentrate the light from a continuous source.

In more modern lighthouses, electric lights and motor drives were used, generally powered by diesel electric generators.

And I had hardly finished my business in the toilet on the aforementioned occasion when the lights in that place, like the hall lights controlled from the switch in the office, flicked off and on impatiently.

Her temper sparked like charcoal when it first lights up.

They are preoccupied riding herd on control panels, switches, flashing colored lights on pale green or gray consoles that look like business machines.

The clear and searching sweep of sun on the lawns was like a climax of the year's lights.

There are codes using colors, like traffic lights, the color code employed to mark the nominal value of the electrical resistors or that of the trashcans devoted to specific types of garbage ( paper, glass, biological, etc.

That was easy to shoot compared to the Manhattan Island prison sequences which had few lights, mainly torch lights, like feudal England.

Arc lights had been used to produce special lighting effects in films like the light from a lamp or firelight before 1906, but this now became more common.

The traffic lights, again from Siemens, were mounted on a five-sided 8. 5 m high tower designed by Jean Kramer, shipped over from the United States, and actually modelled on a similar one erected on Fifth Avenue in New York in 1922, although towers like this had been a feature of the city since 1918.

The indicator light is also sometimes used in certain applications, as well as Keyboard Layout Indicator in some Linux distributions ( like Ubuntu ) because doing so is less likely to cause problems than manipulating other keys / lights.

Diffraction coronas are commonly observed around light sources, like candle flames or street lights, in the fog.

Physically, embedded systems range from portable devices such as digital watches and MP3 players, to large stationary installations like traffic lights, factory controllers.

The Old English " puca " is a kind of half-tamed woodland sprite, leading folk astray with echoes and lights in nighttime woodlands ( like the German and Dutch " Weisse Frauen " and " Witte Wieven " and the French " Dames Blanches ," all " White Ladies "), or coming into the farmstead and souring milk in the churn.

Although subjects were shielded from time cues ( like clocks ) and daylight, the researchers were not aware of the phase-delaying effects of indoor electric lights.

" Oberth criticized the German system of education, saying " Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past.

Toy class vehicles are usually modeled after real cars, and often feature details that hobby class vehicles lack, like working lights, sounds, windows, opening doors and hoods, and realistic interiors at the expense of weight and durability.

Tamiya produce some of the best of this scale, these usually include realistic features like flashing lights, engine sounds, main gun recoil and-on their Leopard 2A6-an optional gyro-stabilization system for the gun.

( Route 33 eastbound also ascended the bridge approach about halfway before branching off like an exit ramp — a sign with flashing lights read " Hightstown, Shore Points " at the fork ).

Is the child bothered by external stimuli like noises, textures, or lights, or does the child seem to ignore them?

The monsoon can bring storms in the summer, like July 3, 2011, bringing floods, thunderstorms, and shutting down traffic lights.

In the summer, the monsoon can reach the area, bringing heavy rains, and thunderstorms ( like July 3, 2011, when flooding occured, shutting down traffic lights ).

Andy Warhol during the early 1960s beginning to create films and video, in the mid-60s sponsored the Velvet Underground and staged events and performances in New York, like the Exploding Plastic Inevitable ( 1966 ) that featured live Rock music, exploding lights, and film.

Rock or soil containing something piezoelectric, like quartz, silicon or arsenic, may also produce electricity, channeled up to the surface through the soil via a column of vaporized water, there somehow appearing as earth lights.