Penlight

"They would zip you up, put your cotton tail on and then you'd put on the collar and cuffs with the cufflinks facing a certain direction—don't ask me which—with your penlight hooked on the right so you could flash it to see the customer's club card," said Michele Dawn, now a licensed private investigator in California, who began her Bunny career when she turned 21 in 1965. ❋ Thomas Vinciguerra (2011)

At that moment, the “bodyguards” each clicked on a tiny but powerful penlight. ❋ Annia Ciezadlo (2011)

Then one of them began to wander down toward the bayou, pointing the beam of a penlight ahead of him. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

They put a penlight in his one eye, flicking it back and forth. ❋ Chuck Hogan (2010)

The cameraman shone a penlight into the camera to check for dust on the film. ❋ Portia De Rossi (2010)

He pulled the hooded man deeper into the trees and dropped him in the leaves, then retrieved the penlight and the silenced semiautomatic the man had been carrying. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

The doctor, a third-year resident, flashes his penlight; her lids flutter in response. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He held it open and shined a penlight inside to look around. ❋ Matt Myklusch (2010)

Michael lifted his small penlight, flicked it on, and shone it into the cell. ❋ Richard Doetsch (2010)

About the time I was realizing this, the doctor removed a penlight from his shirt pocket, and began scanning the panel with it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He played the beam of a penlight on blue irises gone slack. ❋ Martin Cruz Smith (2010)

Cullen shines the penlight on the face of a fellow marine. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I shined the penlight at the airspeed indicator, 75mph, then at the artificial horizon to make sure my wings were level, and that I was not climbing or descending, then at the GPS for my course line. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He flicked on the penlight he kept on his keychain and the bluish beam illuminated the name “Lady” and “3463 Belmont Street” and below that, a phone number. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She had a small penlight that she clicked on and held it in front of my face. ❋ Marta Acosta (2010)

Her pupils still had their shape, not collapsed, and when he shined a penlight at them, they drew tight. ❋ Martin Cruz Smith (2010)

I woke him to get his penlight, because in the three or four seconds I'd been Pilot in Command, I'd realized three or four very unsettling situations that I'd not previously been fully cognizant of. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Gracie held it fast to her shoulder, spitting orders as she bit down on a penlight in her teeth. ❋ Bryan Gruley (2010)

It's not the [size] of your [penlight], it's [how you] use it. ❋ Flipmatthew (2015)