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A billowed sea of light upon the
I can recall the flood of morning light, A billowed sea of light upon the wall.
— from Virginia: A Tragedy, and Other Poems by Marion Forster Gilmore

a broad space of light upon the
The other burned steadily by itself, and made a broad space of light upon the frosted ground.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 12 by Robert Louis Stevenson

a bright sheaf of light upon the
On Sundays, when the windows of the stores and shops ceased to illuminate the street, those of the hair-dresser's till late at night cast a bright sheaf of light upon the pavement, and the passer-by might observe a little thin figure huddled upon his seat in the corner, and immersed in something between thought and a heavy slumber.
— from The Little Angel, and Other Stories by Leonid Andreyev

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