| Dazed and wordless, weak from stage-fright, he permitted himself to be led forth into the terrifying glare of the footlight world. |
| A footlight is placed within this tent-like cover to illuminate it. |
| Henry James is a famous example of a brilliant writer whose dreams of footlight glory were not meant to be. |
| Jefferson had really fallen asleep, and his snores, it is said, were quite audible beyond the footlight. |
| No living creature excites such general curiosity, interest, and perhaps admiration and envy, as this footlight queen. |
| To use the torch or hand lantern, a footlight must be employed as a point of reference to the motion. |
