| 单词 | coruscation |
| 例句 | Two tears slid down her fallen cheeks, in and out of the myriad coruscations of immolation and abnegation and time. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z In the early decades of the 20th century modernity was frequently summarised as a sort of disorienting coruscation. Light fantastic 2013-01-26T09:00:44Z Captain Bonnycastle caused a bucket of this fiery water to be drawn up: it was one mass of light when stirred by the hand, and not in sparks, as usual, but in actual coruscations. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z His coruscations were not only glittering, but they often dazzled and confounded less ornate minds. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z Mr Disraeli, always pre-eminently happy on these occasions, delighted host, hostess, and guests by a coruscation of glittering antitheses, and flashing epigrams in affectionate honour of the bride and bridegroom. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z Acting on the impulse, Shane, with maudlin tears, swore his dear friend to solemn secrecy, and amidst a coruscation of cries and curses, blurted out the story which we wot of. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z —H. A. B. asks at the end of his Note, "Why a coruscation of joy, upon a wedding day, should forebode evil?" and "Whether any other instances are on record of its so doing?" Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 95, August 23, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-12-24T03:07:54.103Z Incessant coruscations of enthusiasm, which culminated when a black sister moved the fourteenth resolution, demanding the total, immediate, and unconditional transfer of all menial labour from Woman to Man. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Jan 27, 1872 2011-11-19T03:00:22.947Z Now he folds his arms upon his breast, utters some beautiful sentiment, relaxes them, recedes a step, and gives wing to the coruscations of his fancy, while a winning smile plays over his countenance. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z The name “Corisco” was given by Spaniards to an island in the Bay of Benga because of the brilliant coruscations of lightning so persistent in that locality. Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z Illustrations of this great fact, like coruscations of light, sparkle along the darkened track of the ages, and abound in the living present. Nature and Culture 2011-11-17T03:00:34.107Z Is not the warning, "Sing before noon, and you'll sigh before night," also a proof of the dread with which "coruscations of joy" were looked upon by our forefathers? Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 95, August 23, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-12-24T03:07:54.103Z His eye beaming with intelligence and flashing with coruscations of genius. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z The jewel was supported on a delicate spring which vibrated with each step upon the floor, so that there was a constant coruscation of light around it. Stories about Famous Precious Stones 2011-08-31T02:01:42.217Z He was wont to declare, and no one was inclined to contradict him, that whenever she appeared, something like a bright coruscation seemed to flash upon the eye. The Vicar of Wrexhill 2011-07-13T02:00:20.177Z Under such a sky the sea seems to emulate the starry vault above, for in its darkling depths there is a marvellous display of gleaming coruscations. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z The chimes ring in the ear, and the thoughts are flung about like coruscations. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z They reached in a continuous line of coruscations from Boreham Hall, opposite my right hand, to the knoll by Little Waltham, a distance of three or four miles, I should say. The Invasion 2011-05-20T02:00:29.260Z Gleams of lightning at intervals flashed over the sward; or, in fitful coruscation, illumined the deep arcades of the forest—the beeches, for a moment, appearing burnished by the blaze. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z But the lady took it as a coruscation of rustic wit, and laughed. The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z As the party retreated, not two, but ten fires were seen gleaming among the trees, filling the forest with their bright coruscation. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z The instinctive impulse or spasm of expiring vitality,—like the brilliant gleam or coruscation of the expiring taper, is expended in a series of tremendous death-throes. Memorials of the Sea My Father: Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby 2011-02-07T03:00:26.033Z And now I find I am checked by want of space, at the moment when the jar is fully charged, and the subtle spirit might have exploded in many more pretty coruscations. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 The silence enabled her now to catch the low tones of the men; and the coruscations of their steel armour, as the moonbeams played upon it, met her eye. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 I could not mould my own thoughts to prayer: a thousand wandering fancies crowded through my mind, making all dark chaos, save the lurid coruscations of the horrors of dissolution. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 A second flash lighted the cleft with its dazzling coruscation. Into the Primitive When the moon shone, halos, and occasionally paraselenæ, were visible; and towards the close of the month the coruscations of the aurora were often very brilliant. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea Dazzling in violence, its coruscations blinded the barbarians so thoroughly that thereafter there was but night. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern There is a method of producing artificial coruscations, or sparkling fiery meteors, which will be visible, not only in the dark but at noon-day, and that from two liquors actually cold. Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments You are now surrounded by the glittering but evanescent coruscations of the more recent novels. Devil Stories An Anthology Below these glories were the coruscations of an entire nation of inferior gods. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal Thrilling coruscations of vivid light flashed across my eyes. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III Theophanes, one of the Byzantine historians, records, that in November of the year 472 the sky appeared to be on fire over the city of Constantinople with the coruscations of flying meteors. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 These brilliant coruscations of wit were the first gleams of light which irradiated the sombre anti-slavery struggle. Home Life of Great Authors It marks the heated state of the political atmosphere, where even the lightest coruscation of a hated name made it burst into flames! Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 Occasionally a salmon or a big halibut, disturbed by our canoe, went streaming like a meteor through the water, throwing off coruscations of light. Alaska Days with John Muir My mind felt, at times, quite confused; at other times, strange ideas shot transitorily through it, with the vividness of lightning; but they were only coruscations, and left no impressions. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III The appearance of the Image of “Il Divo,” upon which the sunbeams were playing in dazzling coruscations of light, was greeted with a murmur of applause and satisfaction from the expectant crowd in the open. The Naples Riviera A faint coruscation of sparks ran along the network, but the craft kept steadily onward. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 A man who has a profound faith in his convictions has coruscations, fierce flashes of that second-sight for the signs of the times. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 Again there was a coruscation of coded flashes. The Great Dome on Mercury It is about one quarter as broad as the full moon, and our largest aperture reveals the faint coruscation of its crowded components. Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers Some were of blue, slightly silvered, others of pure white, some of tender rose-hue, melting into grey; many of burning fire, like the coruscations of a flaming conflagration. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Can any of your readers explain why such a coruscation of joy upon a wedding day should forebode evil? or whether any other instances are on record of its so doing? Notes and Queries, Number 82, May 24, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc But the coruscations in question pass as swiftly as a falling star. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition Nothing about her appeared to move—save the coruscation of metallic ornaments that glittered in the sun, as though her body were enveloped in scale-armour. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness The cave was no longer in darkness; it was lit up by the coruscations of light that emanated from the beautiful vision, and Karl could see all around him. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Inside you heard little beyond the crackling of the flimsy sheet, mingled with the comments, exclamations, anticipations, expectations that went off on all sides, met each other, and rebounded, exploding in coruscations of sparks. The Dop Doctor "Indeed I do!" he said, with another slighter coruscation. Daisy Should it "be compared to the coruscation of the electric fluid in the aurora borealis? or to the more magnificent cone of the zodiacal light?" A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition There was a cloud on my own heart—an electric rush through my veins—of far more potent spell than the shadows of the sky, or the coruscations of the ethereal fire. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness The sparkling stalactites projecting downward from the roof, with here and there the drops of clear filtered water, gave back the glare from the torches in a thousand coruscations. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains As he has said, it is a desperate night of driving sleet and swirling blackness, illuminated only with the malignant coruscations of lyddite bursting-charges. The Dop Doctor They seemed to speak together as if in some scene or passage of celestial drama, nor did I know which was the diviner speech, the moon's unwavering effulgence or that leaping coruscation of the stars. Apologia Diffidentis Their coruscations were bright, gleaming, and incessant, and they fell thick as the flakes in the early snows of December. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes The unfurled cambric flutters to the breeze of his own creation, and coruscations of white kid and other white materials pass and repass before our eyes. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. It was bright with a long ray from the white sun that peered below a cloud, seeming to her dazzled eyes surrounded by a coruscation of coloured rays. Love of Brothers This he did at periodical holocausts—memorable occasions when the coruscations of the poet’s wit made the sparks from the burning paper seem pale and dull. Old Familiar Faces It remained thus for twenty minutes, when the coruscations from each arch met, and after a short but brilliant display of light, gradually died away. Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage The northern lights have been frequently gazed at with similar apprehensions, whole provinces having been thrown into consternation by the fantastic coruscations of these lambent meteors. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes And powerful rays shot to every side, end-of-the-world coruscations, above the crater of the orchestra. The Bill-Toppers The glancings and coruscations of the aurora borealis, or northern lights. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. After various particulars, he startled hisPage 116 auditor with the general descriptive coruscation, "It was covered with angels and cherubs, and the h—l knows what else." From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life Mr. Church irradiates the frozen regions with the coruscations of his own genius, bringing to these lonely, despairing masses of ice the revivifying hope and promise of warmer climates. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Once or twice the auroral coruscations accompanied a moon in its last quarter, and generally previous to bad weather. Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 We want to keep all our stars with us to make a shining coruscation at the finish. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 Notwithstanding the numerous lights, she is not observed as she glides through their crossing coruscations. The Death Shot A Story Retold As he spoke, a thin stream of light shot upwards from the dark ocean, and broke into a thousand beautiful coruscations above our heads. A Voyage round the World A book for boys The effect of this beautiful coruscation upon the backs of Violins is obtained by cutting the wood upon the cross, or, as the French term it, sur maille. The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators At the same instant David received a stinging whack on the right eye, which although it failed to arrest his rush, filled his vision with starry coruscations. The Garret and the Garden With iron lovely coruscations were exhibited, the boiling vapour flying and burning in all directions; and a platinum wire three feet long was in an instant melted into thousands of minute globules. The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables But seen, even under their pale fitful coruscation, its beauty is beyond question. The Death Shot A Story Retold There are his mild thunders, there are his glowing clouds, his traversing coruscations, and his shooting stars. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Two bright nebulae afterwards appeared beneath it: and about two o’clock it broke up into fragments, the coruscations becoming more frequent and irregular till it vanished entirely. Peter the Whaler The coruscations of the fireflies seemed to fascinate Ned so much that he became quite silent at last, while the Malays sat huddled together chewing their betel, and talking in a low subdued tone. The Rajah of Dah But pass it did, with the wonderful display of golden coruscations undulating from the spots where the long oars softly dipped still going on, but gradually growing more faint, and at last invisible. Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle The stars and the fiery pen exploded in a wild coruscation of searing, blinding light and he plunged from his spiral into a black abyss. The Skylark of Space The chandeliers with their myriad pendants of glittering crystal emitted thousands of brilliant coruscations, like wintry boughs loaded with icicles and sparkling in a noonday sun. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author Fancy a bright arch suddenly bursting forth in the dark-blue sky, sending up streamers of many hues—orange, crimson, and purple—while bright coruscations were emitted from it, completely obscuring the stars in the neighbourhood! Peter the Whaler They have watched the magic coruscations of some strange 'Aurora Borealis' of dim romance, or been content with the domestic gaslight of London streets. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) A ball of fire had coursed through the air, striking with dazzling coruscations the top of a towering oak, and he heard, amidst the thunder and its clamorous echo, the sharp crash of riving timber. The Young Mountaineers Short Stories Some are born from the martyrdom of a thinker to fire the genius of a populace; others are the coruscations of joy, and have a smile for their immortal heir. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 It is like trying to paint chain-lightning, or the coruscations of the aurora borealis. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author Such coruscations of wit, such splendid periods, were never heard before. My New Curate Further, while the body of the comet travels toward the sun, sometimes with a velocity nearly one-third of that of light, the tail sends forth coruscations in the opposite direction, with a much greater velocity. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity At night, when the firmament is not aglow with the many-tinted lights and silent coruscations of the aurora borealis, the zodiacal light and the stars still shine with intense brightness. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers They are the stars and coruscations from that great sea of electricity, the Force inherent in the people. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Then may thine eyes flow with the tears of joy because of the coruscation of the fire of the heart and may thy soul and thy spirit be attracted to the Beauty of the Beloved.” Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas Faint coruscations of the Aurora Borealis appeared one evening, but their presence did not in the least affect the electrometer or the compass. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 Its existence was first discovered by the coruscations of the comet of 1807. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Never did a professional wit more ingeniously produce as sudden coruscations the bon mots tediously studied; never did a philosophical conversationalist use to more advantage the wisdom conned over in the closet. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy When the coruscations of this Masonic emblem caught the eye of Dr. Lord, he became uneasy, and began to finger an imaginary token of rank upon his own breast. The Story of Cooperstown There appeared to be quick flashes or coruscations, not unlike the aurora borealis.... Our Day In the Light of Prophecy At this place the Aurora Borealis was extremely brilliant in the night, its coruscations darting, at times, over the whole sky, and assuming various prismatic tints, of which the violet and yellow were predominant. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 Daylight does not last more than four or five hours; but the long night is illuminated by the splendid coruscations of the aurora, filling the firmament with many-coloured flame. The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands But Mr. Davidson's wit is so brilliant within the circles of its temporary coruscation as to leave the outline of his work in a constant penumbra. Adventures in Criticism In the south-east monsoon the lightning is more constant, but the coruscations are less fierce or bright, and the thunder is scarcely audible. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants In the case of a very brilliant star these coruscations are so charming that we may be excused for calling the observer's attention to them. Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction. The coruscations of the Aurora were very brilliant almost every evening of the first week, and were generally of the most variable kind. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 Theosophy is no more allied to Christian Science than the odor of the upas-tree is to the sweet breath of springtide, or the brilliant coruscations of the northern sky are to solar heat and light. No and Yes Its phosphoric coruscation filled the Projectile with white streams of lurid light, tinging the contents with a pallor indescribably ghastly. All Around the Moon She whom he had known four or five years previously so charming amid the din of a life of folly, and the coruscation of an ephemeral luxury, was now burned out like an exploded rocket. His Excellency the Minister There are brilliant coruscations from one end to the other of the tube. Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World As Hope Wayne entered she was impressed by the spaciousness of the room, the chastened light, and the coruscations of rich color hanging upon the walls. Trumps The imperfect recitation finished, Mary glanced across the room, hoping her cousin's patience was not so tried, and some brilliant coruscations in that direction fixed her attention. Inez A Tale of the Alamo The few coruscations that flashed over the sky, gradually became fewer and dimmer; the asteroids sought paths further and further apart, and finally disappeared altogether. All Around the Moon The successive discharges occur of course in different places, and the state of things before, at, and after a single coruscation or brush can be exceedingly well separated. Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 One—the grandest goddess of all—wore on her proud head a crown of snow which sparkled with diamond coruscations, rainbow-tinted in the pink light. The Princess Passes Out beyond, a coruscation of lights burnt like a group of topaz and rubies set in the silver shield of the night. Mr. Britling Sees It Through You might have thought that some ingot were pouring forth from an invisible crucible on the horizon, broadening out with a coruscation of bright colors as it gradually grew colder. A Love Episode I am thankful for Wordsworth; as in great darkness and perpetual sky-rockets and coruscations, one were for the smallest clear-burning farthing candle. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I At this place the Aurora Borealis was extremely brilliant in the night, its coruscations darting at times over the whole sky and assuming various prismatic tints of which the violet and yellow were predominant. The Journey to the Polar Sea Beneath the coruscations of this wit a rare and deep intellect was always perceptible. Aylwin It glittered, the size of a shield, and a light coruscation seemed emanating from its edges. The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars Soon another coruscation had appeared on the left in the direction of Montmartre; then another had burst into view on the right behind the Invalides, and still another, more distant near the Pantheon. A Love Episode "And," said the good Herr Von ——, "as the pavilion is used for the reception of the friendless and the homeless, they are attracted and guided to it by its coruscations." Strange Visitors Faint coruscations of the Aurora Borealis appeared one evening but their presence did not in the least affect the electrometer or the compass. The Journey to the Polar Sea And what is a smile or a laugh except a coruscation of the Soul's delight, a light shot outwardly from that which shines within? The Banquet (Il Convito) The entire walls scintillated with a fairy brilliancy, and the trees as they swayed back and forth propelled by the unceasing wind caused such a coruscation of sparkles it fairly blinded the spectator. Mistress Penwick To the southwest hung Orion, showing like a pallid ghost through a tracery of iron-work and interlacing shapes above a dazzling coruscation of lights. The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes "Quite so, old fellow," said Eustace, much impressed at this coruscation of legal lore. Mr. Meeson's Will The coruscations of the Aurora Borealis were very brilliant almost every evening of the first week and were generally of the most variable kind. The Journey to the Polar Sea To atmospheric electricity we doubtless owe the coruscations of the Aurora, one of the most beautiful of our meteors. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 But, dear old friend, is not this sublime sneering? and is there not an honest ray or two of truth mingled here and there in the colder coruscations of this wit? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 I look'd into her eyes, And saw something divine, For there, like summer lightning, Swift coruscations shine. Vignettes in Verse In the rapid eccentricities of cloud and coruscation, the source which supplied to the varying forms so much of their substance was hidden or unminded. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Almost indeed she emulates those jewelled paragraphs in which the creator of Windsor Castle would fill half a chapter with a riot of sartorial coruscations. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 12, 1919 The track of the fish was surrounded by dazzling inimitable brilliancy, and far and wide everything was one dazzling coruscation. A Woman's Journey Round the World Mrs Verloc was sitting in the place where poor Stevie usually established himself of an evening with paper and pencil for the pastime of drawing these coruscations of innumerable circles suggesting chaos and eternity. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale To the south-west hung Orion, showing like a pallid ghost through a tracery of iron-work and interlacing shapes above a dazzling coruscation of lights. When the Sleeper Wakes The driver touched the lever; a stream of coruscations flew from the ball down into the cylinder. The Moon Pool The stars were intensely bright, and a well-defined auroral arch, throwing off fantastic coruscations, lighted the whole northern sky. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains His imagination is full of coruscation and brilliancy. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author When my startled eyes looked down upon the glancing, waving ebony, I thought I could trace a white coruscation of foam spreading out into the darkness, instantly to dissipate and be lost for ever. Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes; a satire And what a coruscation there is up at the Glen! Anne's House of Dreams Instantly the sparkling ball expanded, whirling with prodigious rapidity and sending a cascade of coruscations into the cylinder. The Moon Pool Her eyes dwelt affectionately on Green Gables, peering through its network of trees and reflecting the sunlight back from its windows in several little coruscations of glory. Anne of Green Gables There are conceptions of the mind, that come forth like the coruscations of lightning. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author I rose to the surface, shook the water from my hair, and swam as in a rainbow, amid the coruscations of the gems below seen through the agitation caused by my motion. Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women When he turned his head quickly his hair seemed to shake out light, and some persons thought they saw decided genius in this coruscation. Middlemarch The enclosing facets burst into a blaze of coruscations, and in each sparkling panel I saw our images, shaken and torn like pennants in a whirlwind. The Moon Pool Colonel Boyce, who had listened to the song and the first coruscations of wit with the condescending smile of a connoisseur, now exhibited some impatience. The Highwayman Most beautiful are these mountain streams, their waters of pure, deep green, their surface broken by coruscations of dazzlingly white foam and spray, their murmur ever in our ears. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" In this book his fiery and mystical spirit first found expression, flaming forth in meteoric coruscations. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Yet they endured for but a hundred years, and after that brief coruscation they are wholly merged again in the mass of European things! Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" It cascaded like a waterfall, and as it flowed it spread whirling out, in columns and eddies, clouds and wisps of misty, curdled coruscations. The Moon Pool Prince Florestan frequently dined there; Waldershare always there, in a state of coruscation; and every man of fashion in the opposite ranks, especially if they had brains. Endymion On a great question, so near my heart as this, give me the steady light of common sense, not the wayward coruscations of a fiery imagination. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day A deep, quick blush suffused her face, her eyes gleamed with a sudden coruscation; suddenly and quickly she put forth her hand. Coningsby At each moment of special abasement there is some special coruscation of the brightness of His glory. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII Through the water tiny gleams of phosphorescence began to dart, sparkles and coruscations of pale incandescence. The Moon Pool The sun is no more lamented when it is eclipsed, than when it sets; and meteors play their coruscations without prognostick or prediction. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons Many who might partially appreciate such a spirit, do nevertheless object to it, from the snap-dragon nature of its coruscations, which shine themselves, but shew every thing around them to disadvantage. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia The light of the halo was of course very much narrower than when I first observed it, and its scintillations or coruscations no longer distinctly visible. Across the Zodiac Almost the only gleam of humor he discerns in his weekly wading through the watery and windy wastes of the Congressional Globe is a comic coruscation by Mr. CAMERON. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 Then sundry new victories and coruscations of oratory gave momentary confidence so that in December, 1793, they rose above 50. Fiat Money Inflation in France Bright flashes of flame shot up here and there, along the margin of the waste, like the nimble coruscations of the North, but far more angry and threatening in their colour and changes. The Prairie Lorne scored; he scored in face of probability, expectation, fact; it was the very climax and coruscation of score. The Imperialist And then— There was a flash of inverted lightning, a flame of white fire, a blinding, stabbing scintillation of a million coruscations. The Blind Spot I suppose this is the "after-glow" described by Miss Martineau and other travellers: "flashes of light like coruscations of the Aurora Borealis in pyramidal form" would exactly describe the phenomenon. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 The rapiers sang a strange song above the sleeping girl, a lullaby with coruscations of death in every keen note. Alice of Old Vincennes Little clouds of coruscations danced gaily like fireflies about and through it. The Metal Monster The leaf insects are also fascinating, and the fire-flies in a mangrove swamp on a dark, still night, moving in gentle undulations, or flashing into coruscations after brief intervals of quiescence, are inconceivably beautiful. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither The next instant a dozen forked flashes shot from the sky, while fiery coruscations blazed athwart it; and at the same moment a bolt struck the Wykeham Tower, beside which he had been recently standing. Windsor Castle For it is observable, the more solemn is your background of DARK, the brighter is the play of all human genialities and coruscations on it,—of genial mirth especially, in the hour for mirth. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 And these coruscations formed, on the surface of the molten ruby, literally the shape of a rose, its leaves made distinct in their outlines by sparks of emerald and diamond and sapphire. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English All benches are crowded; in the dusky galleries, duskier with unwashed heads, is a strange 'coruscation,'—of impromptu billhooks. The French Revolution |
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