The ceiling is shoulder height, and you are trying to repair a piece of heavy machinery by the light of a small torch.

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Several years ago, at age 60, my older cousin Torch (born at home by the light of a flashlight, or torch) had a seizure.

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The carriage was piled with luggage and tied bundles, and as she stood some silver fell to the ground, knives and forks and a silver candelabra, catching in the clatter the few gleams of light from the torch that Roscoe held.

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Few in that country can forget the impressive sight of Li Ning, himself in a track suit of his own design, being hoisted up at the Bird Nest stadium to light the torch during the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

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