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  • verb Present participle of heliograph.

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Examples

  • And though they had been swept from the world, in my mind they still stood, vivid and heliographing in the sun, superimposed on the current setting.

    Robert Lanza, M.D.: Why You're Alive and Can Never Die: The Larger Scientific Picture 2010

  • It was a dimensionless point of light, as if a star had been clawed from the sky by one of those cruel peaks, and I imagined that some smooth rock surface was catching the sunlight and heliographing it straight into my eyes.

    Tin 2010

  • And though they had been swept from the world, in my mind they still stood, vivid and heliographing in the sun, superimposed on the current setting.

    Robert Lanza, M.D.: Why You're Alive and Can Never Die: The Larger Scientific Picture 2010

  • It was a dimensionless point of light, as if a star had been clawed from the sky by one of those cruel peaks, and I imagined that some smooth rock surface was catching the sunlight and heliographing it straight into my eyes.

    BestScienceFictionStories.com » Post Topic » The Sentinel by Arthur C. Clarke 2008

  • It was a dimensionless point of light, as if a star had been clawed from the sky by one of those cruel peaks, and I imagined that some smooth rock surface was catching the sunlight and heliographing it straight into my eyes.

    Of Time and Stars Clarke, Arthur C. 1972

  • From this, Harry had decided, they should be able to get the view they required and so locate the second heliographing station.

    The Boy Scout Aviators George Durston

  • Our heliographing instrument did excellent service sending flashes from the cliff to the island, but we couldn't make it work very well sending messages from the island to the cliff, because we had to face almost due north, and then the sun was nearly always at our backs and couldn't shine squarely on the mirror.

    The Scientific American Boy The Camp at Willow Clump Island A. Russell Bond

  • Stelton thought for a moment that there must have been an outbreak from the near-by Wind River or Shoshone Reservation, and that the Indians were heliographing to one another.

    The Free Range Francis William Sullivan 1925

  • In his work as engineer he had had occasion to study up Morse in heliographing.

    The Cruise of the Dry Dock T. S. Stribling 1923

  • Light signals, rockets, heliographing, were of small avail through the dust -- and smoke-clouds.

    Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 1919

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