In the dark a veiled and luminousfemale figure walked solemnly about the room, and profoundly impressed the sitters.
Herne was one night tracing a pious message in luminous characters (with a damp match) when there was a crackle and flash; the match had "struck.
It is those luminous intuitions that light along the path of discovery that give the eye and animus to generalization.
Now, we could not by the force of continued looking bring into view an object too feebly luminous to be seen at the first and keenest moment of vision.
Could we suppose that each luminous point had no relation to the others near it than the accidental neighborship of grains of sand upon the shore, or of particles of the wind-blown dust of the desert?
While the five hundred are talking together, the air grows luminous with his presence.
If but half is true that this strange Man is reputed to have said, no priest of Jupiter has ever uttered at Rome so luminous a word.
But she heard the click as he alighted on a branch overhead, and seeing his eyes, catlike and luminous in the gloom, she hid under a bush.
The grass was soaked with dew, and the moon, red and luminous in the haze, looked at him like a friendly eye.
I saw a little tiny luminous disk just for an instant, and then again for an instant a few minutes later.
And again I feel the clear beam of his wonderful eye, cold and luminous as a star, shining into my brain--sifting the very secrets of my heart.
Of course I knew what it was, for I have my own watch-dial daubed with luminous paint; it makes a lantern of sorts when you can get no better.
He fixed hisluminous eyes upon his daughter, crossed his arms on his breast, and repeated the word "Madness!
The many confused thoughts that surged in Marguerite's mind grew calm and lay like a limpid ocean traversed by a luminous ray when Emmanuel murmured a few farewell words to Madame Claes.
In some cases changes of intensity take place round the auroral zenith, simulating the effect that would be produced by a cyclonic rotation of luminous matter.
At several stations in Greenland auroral curtains have been observed when passing right overhead to narrow to a thin luminous streak, exactly as a vertical sheet of light would seem to do to one passing underneath it.
Frequently an arc or band is visibly composed of innumerable short rays separated by distinctly less luminous intervals.
Luminous discharges from masts, lightning conductors, and other pointed objects are not very infrequent, especially during thunderstorms.
So Euripides describes the inhabitants as "ever walking gracefully through the most luminous ether" (Med.
Combinations of rays sometimes resemble a luminous fan, or a series of fans, or part of a hollow luminous cylinder.
When it is merely a luminous disk round the head, it is called specifically a nimbus, while the combination of nimbus and aureole is called a glory.
It stood in the centre of a luminous circle, a tall, dark figure in the folds of an enormous veil of mist.
In one romantic open, where the stream flows thinly over a long stretch of sand, the bed is of an almost luminous amber, as if its particles had imprisoned a little of the sunlight that had fallen on them through the unnumbered years.
Lincoln Steffens, beating his luminous wings in the void, beamed with joy.
This book discusses, in Mr. Fiske's large and luminous way, the important subjects indicated in the contents.
One of the greatest contributions ever made to scientific knowledge is Herbert Spencer's profound and luminous exposition of Life as the continuous adjustment of inner relations to outer relations.
After throwing out this luminous suggestion Mr. Wallace never followed it up as it admitted and deserved.
He stretched a huge black arm across the luminous picture, and showed the room whence Graham had escaped, and across the chasm of ruins the course of his flight.
She was dressed in a faintly luminous grey, her dark hair about her brows was like a cloud, and as he saw her the cold light from the circular opening into the ways fell upon her downcast face.
In Les Troyens à Carthage, the fragrance of the Aeneid is shed over the night of love, and we see the luminous sky and hear the murmur of the sea.
And this double ideal is the alternation between the gentle sunlight and the faint mist that veils the soft, luminous sky of the Isle of France.
A ship plunging through these phosphorescent fields seems to advance through a sheet of white flame, a field of luminous silver, scattering a spray of sparks in all directions.
She gave him a strange look, luminous yet mysterious, a curtain withdrawn only to show a shining mist with something undefined but dazzling beyond.
He was on that track of analogy which, when cleared, will be, perhaps, theluminous highway to universal truth.
There is no voice like that which breaks the silence--of the stagnant hours of the night with its sudden suggestions and luminous counsels.
I want diffused light and no single luminous centre to fix my eye, and so distract my mind from its one object of contemplation.
It was done, and that one luminous point redeemed the sombre apartment as the evening star glorifies the dusky firmament.
The meek teacher's blue eyes met the luminous glance that came with the question.
Master Byles Gridley found himself suddenly possessed by a large and luminous idea of the state of things, and made up his mind in a moment as to what he must do.
This history is luminous with intelligence, radiant with benevolence, but all its wisdom and all its virtue have had to struggle with the ever-rising mists of delusion.
But, as I was saying, phosphorus fires this train of associations in an instant; its luminous vapors with their penetrating odor throw me into a trance; it comes to me in a double sense "trailing clouds of glory.
These soiled and musty books are luminous and electric within.
Master Gridley paused as he asked this question of himself, for a luminous idea had struck him.
Whatever purely literary talent existed was as yet in the nebular condition, a diffused luminous spot here and there, waiting to form centres of condensation.
In the courtyard at home the children were playing with their lighted animals, drawing their gaudy paper ducks, luminous with candle-light, to and fro on little standards set on four wheels.
Before her, the light streamed into the little chapel through one luminous window of coloured glass above the altar.
And then it was the feet of marching men, massive, dark, grave men with luminous eyes, and the stamp on their faces of an imperishable youth.
Kirby, jarred that his luminous explanations had still left Najib more or less where it found him, so far as any lucid idea was concerned.
Amidst a luminous shower of spray and foam I discovered Rafael.
A viscous substance that oozes from porous holes around the monster's mouth diffuses itself over the surface of the skin, rendering them as luminous as fire-flies, and this particularly during a thunderstorm.
This luminous appearance is the more visible in proportion to the darkness of the night.
His luminous sincere intellect laid bare to him in all its abject incoherency the thing that was untrue, which thenceforth became for him a thing that was not tenable, that it was perilous and scandalous to attempt maintaining.
What he did, and what he said, came from him as light from a luminous body, and had thus always in it a high and rare merit, which any of the more discerning could appreciate fully.
But now the nether shade Grew luminous with white ascending wings, And radiant arms of angels, who upbore With tender hands another soul new-born, Fairer than that last star whose bearing flings Another beauty on the brow of morn.
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