The glow which is lambent upon the faces of the sons and daughters of this section of sunny Italy, is something that I never saw elsewhere, and that cannot be described.
This is St. Elmo's fire, a brush of lambent light, which plays around the masts of ships and the tops of trees, when clouds are low and tension great.
He pointed an accusing forefinger at Bismarck, whose lambent eyes of terror glowed from beneath the valance of the sofa.
Refresh me with a cooling breeze, And cheer me with a lambent light.
Away to their right the golden disc of the sun was sinking royally westward, bathing the mountains in a flood of lambent light, and piercing the darkening blue of the sky with quivering shafts of scarlet and orange and saffron.
Old Maria, whose eyesight was still quite keen enough to distinguish love, even from the further side of a room lit only by the lambent firelight, retired to her own quarters, chuckling to herself.
They noticed that the candles stuck along the wall were burning a lambent green.
The top of the furnace now slowly settles, and cracks in long, irregular fissures, sending out a pungent gas which, when lighted, burns lambent blue.
At first it was so dull and lambent that it suggested thoughts of the will-o'-the-wisp.
Tom whispered these words, and pointed in the opposite direction, to a lambent light which seemed to be moving slowly over the marshy edge of the mere.
Then, growing weary, he sat down again, and after a time he must have dropped asleep, for he rose feeling quite startled, and stood staring as a peculiarly soft lambent light shone here and there before him.
When it is procured from animal or vegetable substances, it is of a heavier kind, and burns with a lambent flame, of various colours, according to the circumstances.
Pure inflammable air seems to consist of phlogiston and water, and the lambent kinds to be the same thing, with the addition of some oily vapour diffused through it.
This substance burns with a lambent flame in the common temperature of our atmosphere, but with a strong and vivid flame if it be exposed to the open air when moderately warm.
There she sat, her great bulging abdomen distended with eggs, her lambent eyes shining with the terrible passion of anticipation.
Two tiny, fiery eyes glimmered at the base of the antennæ--two minute jewelled sparks of glowing, lambent fire.
They threw off their clothes, and he gathered her to him, and found her, found the pure lambent reality of her forever invisible flesh.
There was something in his presence, Ursula thought, lambent and alive.
She did not take any notice of the wavering, indistinct, lambent Birkin, who stood at his side.
A lambent intelligence played secondarily above his pure Egyptian concentration in darkness.
The eye beamed fitfully upon them, occasionally a wave of lambent tremulousness passed across it; its weirdness was an excuse for their drawing nearer each other in playful terror.
A sudden tremor seemed to shake the lambent flame that had lured him on.
The three companions had seen many strange and fearful things during the past years, but perhaps they had never before been quite so near to a battery spouting out its leaden rain in great broad flashes of lambent flame.
More roses, more narcissus lambent as lilies, more sweetness, and still more rest!
In her eye could be perceived the lambentflame of genius and soul.
During the silence that succeeded, he sat with a quiet expectation beaming in his full, lambent eye.
But God's redemptive acts are like the guiding pillar of fire, in that they have a side that reveals wrath and evokes terror, and a side that radiates lambent love and kindles happy trust.
It does us good to have this vision of the eternal realities blazing in upon us, even if it seems to glare at us, rather than to shine with lambent light.
And his courtesy and his agreement might be all her mother's, but the lambent flicker of his body was for herself.
Notwithstanding, she was proud of him as he lounged in his lambent fashion in her home, he was so attentive and courteous to her mother and to herself all the time.
After dinner, in thelambent twilight, we set out with the gig; and there was much preparation of elaborate contrivances for the entrapping of fish.
Even as we idled away the beautiful and lambent night, we had a vague consciousness that our enemy was stealthily drawing near.
Our attention was not wholly given to the fishing or the boat on this lambent evening; perhaps that was the reason we ran on a rock, and with difficulty got off again.
Everywhere the false and the true, the good and the evil, the lambent light of heaven and the sulphurous shadows of hell meet and blend.
I found this out later, when I attempted other German authors without the glitter of his wit or the lambent glow of his fancy to light me on my hard way.
