The idea is an old one that because light of intense brilliancy dazzles the human eye it is therefore the dwelling-place and the raiment of the inhabitants of heaven, pictured thus as a refulgent abode with refulgent beings.
The brilliant lights held by the statues of the twelve conquered kings grew strangely dim, and then, gliding down upon a beam of refulgent celestial light, they all beheld a dazzling vision of the Holy Grail.
A few moments, and the shining orb sinks beneath them, fringing their edges with refulgent gold, then falls into a sea of liquid fire.
With rays thou stretchest through the heaven And through the fair wide space between, O Dawn, with thy refulgent light.
The church loomed before them in the refulgent light, a mass of shining silver.
From the hill, the soldiers could look down upon the harbor and see the warships and great fleet of transports, with masts and yard-arms outlined in the refulgent light.
On it there is a golden city called Kanchanasringa, which gleams refulgent with brightness, like the palace of the Sun.
And Sumeru quickly fixed upon an auspicious moment in that same day for the marriage, and he had an altar made there, with pillars and pavement of refulgent jewels, furnished with fire that seemed, as it were, eclipsed by their rays.
Have ye not secrets, ye refulgent spheres, No sleepless listener of the starlight hears?
The sun is a chariot drawn by shining steeds and driven by a refulgent deity; the stars ascend and move by arbitrary power or command; the tree is the bower of a spirit; the fountain leaps from the urn of a naiad.
The gentle beamings of that eye Have power to soothe each sorrow, While casting hope's refulgent dye, In glances, on to-morrow.
These refulgent eyes are so set that they constitute two curved bands placed at some distance apart, running across the tail, and when this organ is expanded they impart to it a most regal appearance.
A chapter on animal beauty cannot pass over this magnificent family, though to my own taste there is something in the refulgent radiance of the Humming-birds and Pheasants which is superior to anything seen in the Paradise-birds.
And well might the refulgent day These Ocean Pilgrims chear, And make them feel as if the glades Of home itself were near.
The sun sinks beneath glowing clouds that crimson the horizon and spread refulgent shadows on the distant hills, as darkness slowly steals its way on the mellow landscape.
The sun has just sunk into a fiery cloud that hangs its crimson curtains high in the heavens, shedding refulgentbeauty over the dark jungle lining the river's banks.
Thrice had his valour shined In victory's refulgent rays, thrice heard The shouts of conquest; thrice on his lance appeared The heads of noble Rhodians, which had struck A general sorrow 'mongst the knights.
