the on/off beam of a lighthouse

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'The only noteworthy thing about him was his eye, which flashed or dimmed at will like the on/off beam of a lighthouse.'

'Emile Gaboriau, from Monsieur Lecoq, 1869. As quoted in Optiques: the science of the eye and the birth of modern French fiction by Andrea Goulet, 2006.

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