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Ray of light

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  1. 1
    A path that a photon or a group of photons takes through space, visible as a column of light.
  2. 2
    a column of light (as from a beacon) wordnet
  3. 3
    An inspiring or enlightening person or thing. idiomatic

    "I think he was somewhat lost for a political position - a simple conservatism did not attract him - and I make the guess that Arnold had been a spar that he got hold of as he struggled to find a political position. I was certainly in that position, having been persuaded by Anderson, especially at the lunch-hour meetings of his Free-thought Society, of the bankruptcy of the Left. Arnold came to me as a most welcome ray of light."

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