Lombroso has demonstrated--to his own satisfaction--that Dante's mystic illumination was due to some brand of mental disorder.
With a flash of illumination Sam Bolton saw how valuable in allaying suspicion this evidence of a peaceful errand might prove to be.
It threw a momentary illumination into the angles of the shelter, discovering Dick, asleep in heavy exhaustion, his right forearm across his eyes.
The ether, saturated with luminous matter, developed an intensity of blazing brightness unequalled by the lime light, the magnesium light, the electric light, or any other dazzling source of illumination with which we are acquainted on earth.
In less than a second theillumination had come to an end, involving everything in the Moon's direction once more in pitchy darkness.
This extraordinary illumination lasted altogether only a few seconds; every one of its details was of a most singular and exciting nature--but one of its greatest wonders was yet to come.
Earth-shine,” in astronomy, is the name given to the faint light visible on the part of the moon not illuminated by the sun, due to the illumination of that portion by the light which the earth reflects on her.
The illumination of the latter was held to be a truly momentous achievement owing to its great size.
Nothing can be more beautiful of the kind than such an illumination seen from the ship.
By her dresser mirror burned bayberry candles and in their faintly wavering illumination she caught an occasional glimpse of herself.
Inasmuch as two members of this party are more or less gauzily appareled," she suggested, "it doesn't seem to be necessary to make an illumination of it.
My gratitude increases continually for the illumination Comte has contributed to my life.
To be constantly, lovingly grateful for the gift of a perfect love is the best illumination of one's mind to all the possible good there may be in store for man on this troublous little planet.
Calligraphy andillumination are to-day, if not lost arts, at best but faint echoes of their former greatness.
They soon overtook him and threw a flood of illumination about him with their search-lights, which they had picked up in the dark almost as instinctively as a grandmother picks up her glasses in the morning.
His searchlight he had switched off after finishing the work on his catapult, and the only illumination in the open area came from the moon over the tree tops.
The faint illumination came into the hall from a big broad open door upon the right, giving entrance to what had been the great room.
Enough illumination came through the door into the bed-chamber for their purpose--more than enough for the Emperor.
Luella, as we followed the winding passage in the dimillumination that came from an occasional gas-jet or oil lamp.
The light of a small kerosene lamp gave a gloomy illumination to the place.
He had noted, also, the swiftillumination of her face whenever Annys returned to them.
There was also some illuminationfrom the glowing logs which burned in the centre of the floor, sending a slender pillar of smoke up to the hole in the roof which served as a vent.
The road between its rows of fernlike pepper trees was a wet gleam before us, all black and silver; the arc lights made big misty blurs without much illumination as we came to the Thornhill place.
Barbara went with me out into the flare of carnival illumination that paled the afterglow of a gorgeous sunset.
A sort of illumination appeared on his countenance.
Illumination as brilliant as the daylight is the necessary seasoning of a great joy.
In the illumination he had seen a cabin only a few feet in front of him, and toward it he made frantically, with an animal's instinctive desire for shelter.
He walked amid such an illumination as he had never dreamed of, and paused half blinded in the glare of a broad sheet of electric light that filled a pillared entrance into which many people passed.
Possibly a trace of it may be found in an illumination in one of the MS.
The lamps were lighted; and Mrs. Read conferred the further illumination of her presence.
A faint illumination at length overspread the sky, and with this promise of the coming day we quitted our bivouac at 3-1/2 A.
I looked towards the eastern heaven, but could discover no illumination which hinted at the approach of day.
I know nothing which can compare in point of glory with these winter palaces of the mountaineer, under the opening illumination of the morning.
Enough illumination came through the transom for them dimly to discern each other.
The gas light in the apartment showed the man in gray wrapped in the fainter illumination of the hall around and behind him.
As they drove by, a storm began to gather, the lightning flickered and the thunder growled; the heavens grew dark and lent a doleful illumination to the spectacle of which we were the witnesses.
The woman and her two companions bade me good night, snuffed the candles in the candelabrum, and left me for light a single alabaster lamp, which threw a pale illumination over the spacious room.
At ten o'clock that evening, when the illumination of the lamps had long replaced the light of day, the National Assembly, having been in continuous session since the night of August 9, took a recess of an hour.
