guide lights
Example Sentences
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His bluer-than-blue eyes blazed like guide lights on an airfield at night.
From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson
From what Trigger could see of it in the guide lights on the approach, it did rather closely resemble a very large mountain of the craggier sort.
From Legacy by James H. Schmitz
From the officers' deck we could see the green and red guide lights, welcoming our convoy of fifteen ships into the sheltered harbor of Liverpool, England.
From History of Ambulance Company Number 139 by Various
The radio-control of torpedoes is uncertain at the best because of difficulties in following the guide lights.
From The Conquest of America A Romance of Disaster and Victory by Cleveland Moffett
Our second torpedo wandered vainly over the ocean because we could not follow her guide lights, the enemy blinding us with the concentrated glare of about twenty of their million-candle power searchlights.
From The Conquest of America A Romance of Disaster and Victory by Cleveland Moffett
