The reflector had found favor where the choices of artificial light provided poor illumination compared to modern electric lighting.

It could allow one to see very great distances, but it was of far less help in poor illumination.

As his eyes adjusted to the poor illumination, he saw that the cube was crawling across a broad bare floor.

Later devices such as the Mueseler lamp were better protected, but all such lamps gave poor illumination.

It was slow work: he was out of practice, not having had to operate a field radio in Paris, and the poor illumination made things still more difficult.

He wore a bronze-brown burnous, a weave of heavyweight silk and linen that shone oddly metallic, even in poor illumination.

Either the baron's servants were expected to get along with poor illumination, or else most of them had gone to bed, leaving only night lights behind them.

His thighs ached where his attackers had sought to make pulp of his crotch, failing only for the poor illumination.

A major problem that existed on the motorway was that of poor illumination.

It was hard to tell the color in the poor illumination, but it had to be silk from the way it reflected light.