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magic lantern: see stereopticon stereopticon (stĕrēŏp`tĭkən), optical projection instrument making multiple use of the magic lantern. ..... Click the link for more information. . magic lantern an early type of slide projector How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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However, this thought, like all others, came and went in a flash, for the whole morning was like a series of magic lantern pictures, crossing and recrossing her field of vision. It is a magic lantern, of which the eye of man every year changes the aspects. During many hours of the short winter days, however, when it was dusk there early in the afternoon, changing distortions of herself in her wheeled chair, of Mr Flintwinch with his wry neck, of Mistress Affery coming and going, would be thrown upon the house wall that was over the gateway, and would hover there like shadows from a great magic lantern. |
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