A lamp consisting of a flame directed at a cylinder of lime with a lens to concentrate the light; formerly used for stage lighting.
1 Far better bring them near and turn on the calcium light .
2 The pitiless sunshine seemed to single him out and stream upon him like a calcium light .
3 If they could only have a calcium light !
4 The calcium light ceased to sputter.
5 It was like a mammoth, well-cut cameo, or a gigantic magic lantern effect, with the sun as a calcium light .
6 They were much more interesting to Brown, however, than anything he had ever seen in the set and artificial radiance of the calcium light .
7 His stories are full of adventure and dramatic situations, and his melodrama is of the lurid kind on which the calcium light is thrown.
8 At that instant, like bitter fate, shot up a rocket, or a star-flare of calcium light , bursting to expose all underneath in pitiless radiance.
9 Pennsylvania Avenue was brilliant with electric and calcium lights and myriads of paper lanterns.
10 It was a dark night, but astern the crew of the lifeboat could observe the calcium lights burning.
11 "Give me some more calcium light , " he called to the guide.
12 Calcium lights added to the brilliancy of the scene, and many private houses and stores were illuminated with gas or candles.
13 "If he would abuse the other side a little more, and stick in a little tinsel and calcium light he would be great."
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