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Meanings of golden shafts in English

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Usage of golden shafts in English
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The afternoon sunlight made golden shafts across the rows of empty seats.
The New Boy at Hilltop, and Other Stories
2
There were distant church carillons ringing, and straight golden shafts of sunshine streaming.
Bébée; Or, Two Little Wooden Shoes
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The cool wind whistled and sunbeams like golden shafts darted through tall shady trees-
First Footsteps in East Africa
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Sunlight leant in golden shafts against the window apertures.
Surface detail
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Dust motes danced in long golden shafts of light.
From hell with love
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Patches of blossoming Bowers were here and there lit to brilliance by golden shafts of sunlight.
The Heritage of the Desert: A Novel
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Furthermore, to each of the ten that last shot I give one of these golden shafts apiece.
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
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The last golden shafts of sunlight were stealing over its memorial words, and the young eyes read in silence:-
Geordie's Tryst: A Tale of Scottish Life
9
Holy light was breaking through the palace's ceiling in golden shafts, bathing this prisoner as he was taken away.
The street philosopher
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He walked through the chasm, looking up at the golden shafts of sunlight that played on the yellow sandstone.
Brotherhood of the Wolf
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The southern moon, rising far along its levels, began to cast burnished golden shafts of light adown its unobstructed vistas.
The Crucial Moment / 1911
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Suddenly, golden shafts of azure-flecked fire lanced through the trees, and the belly of the clouds all turned flame red.
In the shadow of the cypress
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It was a day in April, showery, shot with fleeting gleams of sunshine that sent long golden shafts across the doctor's room.
The Keeper of the Door
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The golden shafts twinkled on the huge colonnade, the vast ruined arch, the crumbling walls, and the huge castled oval of Humayoon's tomb.
A Fascinating Traitor: An Anglo-Indian Story
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The morning sun, not yet above the eastern elevations, sent its rosy and golden shafts in between the towering rocks, to tip the pines.
The Light of the Western Stars
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I saw a great marble hall, golden shafts of light falling between its red-painted pillars, and a dais covered in mosaics at the far end.
Cruel Beauty
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