Into the uninviting little alley immediately opposite we plunged, and where the faint yellow luminanceshowed upon the muddy path before us, Fletcher paused a moment, whispering to me warningly.
The room looked yellow and dismal, illuminated as it was by a cold light of dawn which crept through the window and with which competed the luminance of the electric lamps.
The Queen stood on the low sill and though her head and figure were only sketched in shade against the tempered luminance at her back her exclamation told them that she had heard.
From the window, through which he had come, a broad shaft of tempered luminance fell across the fountain and laid a zone of soft light athwart the low stone benches surrounding it.
Edith's enlightenment was of the same order, no noonday blaze, but only a diffused luminance that came veiled through those clouds, not dispersing them.
A streak of dwindling orange lingered in the west; above, in the fathomless blue, stars that five minutes before had been but minute pinpricks of luminance were grown to yellow lamps and globes of light.
The pale December sunlight glittered through a stained-glass window above him, and cast deep violet rays about his chair,--Gherardi stood where the same luminance touched his pale face with a crimson glow as of fire.
Still standing at the window of her cabin she looked down on the shining city, a broad stretch of splendid gold luminance under the canopy of the dark sky with its millions of stars.
The light around me now changed to waves of intense luminance which swept upon me like waves of the sea--and I allowed myself to be borne along with them, I knew not whither.
We all examined the beautiful ornament, and as I held it in my hand a moment it seemed to emit tiny sparks of luminance like a flash of moonlight on rippling waves.
A light followed me like a meteoric shaft of luminance piercing the blackness--I retained sufficient consciousness to wonder at its brilliancy, and for a time I was borne along in my descent as though on wings.
There was no altar in this chapel,--but at its eastern end where the altar might have been, was a dark purple curtain against which blazed in brilliant luminance a Cross and Seven-pointed Star.
Lucio's face and the luminance of his flashing eyes made him the conspicuous object and chief centre of attraction, .
With all my remaining strength I strove to watch the vanishing upward of that sublime Luminance that now filled the visible universe,--the demon-ship was still sinking steadily, .
His white haik floated round limbs fit for a Colossus: and under the snowy folds of his turban the olive-bronze of his bold forehead, the sweep of his jet-black beard, and the piercing luminance of his eyes had a grand and kingly majesty.
He felt that pitiless luminanceglistening bright about him everywhere; shining over all the summer world, and leaving scarce a shadow to fall athwart his way.
Once more the wavering ghostly light gave luminance to the splendor of the tomb, and showed where, fallen sideways among the golden treasures and mementoes of the past, lay the dead body of Armand Gervase.
The whole forest rustled with mystery in the strange pulsing luminance that was neither sunset nor moonrise, but the memory of one, and a hope of the other--the kind of light that a blind man might see in dreams.
Into it there stole a joyous luminance which made saints' haloes for the reflected heads of mountains.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "luminance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
