Glowing

Examples

• Seest thou, Isaac, said Front-de-Boeuf, the range of iron bars above the glowing charcoal? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• We stopped under the lee of the lobster-outhouse to exchange an innocent kiss, and went in to breakfast glowing with health and pleasure. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She sat like a strange queen, almost supernatural in her glowing smiling richness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• His blue, keen eyes were lit up with laughter, his ruddy face, with its sharp fair hair, was full of satisfaction, and glowing with life. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Who feels injustice; who shrinks before a slight; who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• They saw the golden lights of the hotel glowing out in the night of snow-silence, small in the hollow, like a cluster of yellow berries. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He drew a glowing picture of its present situation. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It was moonless, but the reflex from the many glowing windows lit the court brightly, and even the alleys--dimly. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Taking the weed from his lips, he threw the remnant amongst the shrubswhere, for a moment, it lay glowing in the gloom. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• And Mrs. Trenor, glowing with her sex's eagerness to smooth the course of true love, enveloped Lily in a long embrace. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• In the glowing splendor it looked so frail and ethereal, that, even as they gazed, it melted away before their eyes like a fairy vision. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Welsbach made use of this fact to secure a burner in which the illumination depends upon the glowing of an incandescent, solid mantle, rather than upon the blazing of a burning gas. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Night was setting in, and its bleakness was enhanced by the contrast of the pictured fire glowing and gleaming in the window-pane. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• If he were to be in love, what a bright glowing countenance he possesses for expressing that or indeed any other passion! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

Checker: Marsha