Luminous

Examples

• A genius usually becomes the luminous center of a nation's crisis,--men see better by the light of him. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It was new and oh, so delicate in its luminous wonder and fear. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Presently, the chateau began to make itself strangely visible by some light of its own, as though it were growing luminous. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• His face shone with a certain luminous pleasure. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She had found one of the sons of God from the Beginning, and he had found one of the first most luminous daughters of men. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• They are full of light, but the light to them has become only a sort of luminous mist or blindness. Plato. The Republic.
• A rough diamond is a hard-looking, luminous object, somewhat like a piece of alum, with a dull skin, called the nyf, over a brilliant body. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He looked at her and wondered at the luminous delicacy of her beauty, and the wide shining of her eyes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The air of the night was very still, but dim with a peculiar mistwhich changed the moonlight into a luminous haze. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Learned men tell us that all hot bodies and all luminous bodies are composed of tiny particles, called molecules, which move unceasingly back and forth with great speed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Oh, and the beauty of the subjection of his loins, white and dimly luminous as he climbed over the side of the boat, made her want to die, to die. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Hot coals, red-hot stoves, gas flames, and candles shine by their own light, and are self-luminous. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• After some cogitation, accompanied with an intent look at his patron, Mr. Cruncher conceived the luminous idea of replying, Agicultooral character. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Then he incorporated with it another material of a non-conducting nature, with the result that when the electric current was turned on one material became incandescent and the other luminous. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• If her forehead shone luminous with the reflex of a halo, I knew in the fire of whose irids that circlet of holy flame had generation. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Another method of giving illuminating power to water gas was to surround the flame with platinum gauze, which was rendered incandescent by the heat, and became highly luminous. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• An English paper, commenting on the matter, said, The weak point of the lamp is this, that in order to be luminous, platinum must be heated almost to the point of melting. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• When light from any luminous object falls upon books, desks, or dishes, it meets rough surfaces, and hence undergoes diffuse reflection, and is scattered irregularly in all directions. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He suggests that this serves not to form an image, but only to concentrate the luminous rays and render their perception more easy. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• They reported also that the Brush arc lighting machine produces in the luminous arc useful work equivalent to 31 per cent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The beauty of his dim and luminous loins as he climbed into the boat, his back rounded and soft--ah, this was too much for her, too final a vision. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• A luminous image of any object placed in front of the lens is thrown in an inverted position upon the screen, which is of ground glass, to permit the image to be seen in focusing. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• His face was strange and luminous. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Make a blind struggle luminous, drag an unconscious impulse into the open day, see that men are aware of their necessities, and the future is in a measure controlled. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It seemed to shoot out arms of fire like a cuttle-fish, like a luminous polyp, palpitating strongly before her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Some composition must be discovered which will be luminous when charged with electricity and that will not wear away. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• This man's mind moved in a luminous fog. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Purple twigs were darkly luminous in the grey air, high hedges glowed like living shadows, hovering nearer, coming into creation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Indeed, he is inclined to identify with the latter systems the small luminous elliptical areas in the heavens reported by Maupert uis in 1742. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Though her eyes were closed, one could easily imagine the light necessarily shining in them as the culmination of the luminous workmanship around. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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