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Taxing obstacles and thwarting dead-ends lurk around every ill-lighted corner.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2020

As every U.S. commuter knows, a railroad station should not be drafty, ill-lighted, noisy, depressing; but many are.

From Time Magazine Archive

To the plain reader it is a tortuous chore which pays off only in random flashes of greatness, some of it so illuminating as to make the ill-lighted drudgery seem worthwhile.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Cluj, the capital of the medieval kingdom of Transylvania in Romania, three decades of Ceausescu misrule have emptied shops and condemned people to a dreary life in ill-lighted, poorly heated apartments.

From Time Magazine Archive

Saxon walked a few steps further, turned into an open street-door, passed the concierge without a word, and toilsomely, but with a purposeful tread, mounted the narrow, ill-lighted stairs.

From The Key to Yesterday by Charles Neville Buck


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