| 单词 | lambent |
| 例句 | It was a curious, lambent time then, in their house, in that room. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A lonely, lambent woman looking out at her embittered aunt’s ornamental garden, listening to a tangerine. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I closed my eyes, for there is some subtle magnetism in the gaze that nudges the lambent spirit in those viewed and draws attention to those who watch concealed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The oil lamp to her right bathed one side of her face in lambent light; the other was cast in shadow. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Night has fallen on Volterra, but the stars are lambent, despite harsh lights around the fortress wall. Aniello Arena: the Italian gangster who turned movie star 2013-02-17T00:02:02Z She summoned lovely, pastel tone and lambent high notes for “Nè men con l’ombre” and turned the brief but crucial duet “L’amerete?” into a fully realized scene. Review: Handel’s ‘Serse,’ With Yuks and Exquisite Playing 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Unfolding over the span of just a few days, “Song Lang” renders the two men’s brief encounter, heavy with unspoken longing and connection, against a lambent backdrop of golden-green light and swirling dust. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Here now are PTA moms and pretty people in Patagonia, slouching under the trellis and taking in the lambent sunlight at The Whale Wins. The Whale Wins has the best happy hour in Seattle right now 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z He played “Summertime” over another blues vamp, and he offered “Someday My Prince Will Come” and “Over the Rainbow” as delicate, lambent ballads. Music Review: After Hints Of Genius, A Muse Is Expelled 2011-01-17T22:30:26Z The backdrop behind the band and modest light show is the cover image from Plant's new album: a clown holding a cushion on which sits a ring of gold, lambent. The showman must go on 2011-01-30T00:03:02Z The adagio had lambent warmth, and at the end, after the fireworks of the rondo, the timpanist locked eyes with Douglas for her closing solo, communing on every note. From ‘Danny Boy’ to uilleann pipes: A showcase of Irish music 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z But she was forty-one—on the cusp, she believed, of losing the lambent physical magnetism that she’d both used perfectly and perhaps only ever misused. The Chaotic, Beautiful Larks of Elizabeth Wurtzel 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z I felt as if I had somehow exorcised myself, in a moment of intense calm, a lambent, silent epiphany. The question we came to dread: ‘Are you going for a second child?’ 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z In Joachim Patinir’s triptych “The Penitence of Saint Jerome,” from around 1518, a panorama of mountain lakes stretching to the lambent horizon dwarfs the religious dramas transpiring within it. Art Review: New European Paintings Galleries, 1250-1800, at the Met 2013-05-23T22:47:11Z It is the colors that awe most in Hindu painting of the 16th to 19th centuries: the saturated reds, the lambent golds, or the milky blues of Krishna’s skin and the sky at twilight. ‘Divine Pleasures’ Celebrates the Colors of Desire in Indian Paintings 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z In 1959, inspired by the lambent beauty of his surroundings and fearful of encroaching development, he and his wife, Betty, bought the meadow and placed it in conservation. Personal Journeys: Walking Martha?s Vineyard 2011-08-12T18:55:00Z In Reckoning a forest is filled with lambent beams of energy. Video Game Review: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, From 38 Studios 2012-02-11T00:55:49Z But the welcoming glow that imbues every corner of this nostalgic horse-racing yarn with rich, lambent color comes from within, as if the movie itself is ablaze with its own crazy sense of purpose. "Secretariat": A gorgeous, creepy American myth 2010-10-07T00:30:00Z Half a century has passed since humans set foot on the moon, but the lunar rocks that they gathered are still revealing important information about Earth’s lambent neighbor. The moon is even older than we thought 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z I ran my hands over buttery silk button-downs in deep purple and lambent teal during a Tom Ford for Gucci capsule collection, and slipped into a cream column dress with a cutout at the hip. Walking into the James Veloria dressing room is like walking into a party at any time 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z The keypad is laser-etched out of a sheet of shimmering aluminum, and when pressed, ignites in a lambent blue glow that looked like the sci-fi future. You must never press the original Razr’s forbidden internet button 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z It has sustained years of use throughout high school, college, and beyond, the lambent red glow of its numbers scarcely dimmed by time or age. The snooze button is the best part of the world’s most hated gadget 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z McQueen’s vocabulary is on particularly glorious display in this lambent gem of a film. Review | Steve McQueen’s film series ‘Small Axe’ is a powerful act of restorative justice 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z It’s the peak in a song that is almost overbearingly sensual, one that exudes the lambent heat of late summer. Song of the summer 2019: our writers pick their favourite tracks 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z He could have kept making albums that sounded a bit like The Way It Is, the lambent, piano-driven song that was a worldwide hit in 1986. Bruce Hornsby: 'I'm in search of the chills' 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z But Baker can also moderate tension to allow sentences and the effects they describe to unfold at their own pace, as in this lambent description of monarch butterflies: Poetry That Bears Witness to a Changing Natural World 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z “Never Look Away” is episodic, but the episodes are executed with the meticulous care of a gem-cutter working with the lambent facets of a precious stone. Review | ‘Never Look Away’ is one of the best — and most beautiful — films out now 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Ghost stories gain energy from lambent campfire; a romantic kiss becomes more intense when it is flickering on the gigantic screen of a darkened movie theatre. “SKAM,” the Radical Teen Drama That Unfolds One Post at a Time 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z A feathery falsetto, often layered to celestial effect, it flutters daintily over lambent guitar and sweeping strings. Moses Sumney: ‘I have an obsession with loneliness, singledom, isolation’ 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z It was aptly named — the room was cool and dark, except for the lambent glow from a 9-foot by 9-foot projector screen at the distant end of a shadowy three-walled cubicle. Keep Your Eye on the Balls to Become a Better Athlete 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Its tone reminds me of the gloaming—that lambent, transitional moment between night and day. The Resurgent Appeal of Stevie Nicks 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z We meet him in Havana in March among the lambent colours of a floral display in another restaurant garden, with the sound of crowing cockerels drifting through the tropical suburb. Preparing for peace: inside Farc’s Colombian jungle base 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z One can only hope the same holds true for this Wolfe, whose lambent, sonorous prose weaves through the film like the river that served as the author’s most cherished metaphor. Colin Firth plays the self-effacing literary editor Maxwell Perkins in ‘Genius’ 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z With a larger vehicle’s rakishness writ small—particularly the generous axle-to-dash distance—the CX-3 projects a light, lambent sophistication, fine line, quiet smarts and a refreshing absence of cute. Mazda CX-3: Finally, a Seductive Minicrossover 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z From the four corners of the skyscraper lambent flames played. Friday File: When the Ball First Dropped on New Year’s Eve 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Once in a long while, a book is published that felicitously combines lambent writing with dazzling facts, while also illuminating our knowledge of significant and engaging subjects. Beautiful creatures endangered by ugly humans 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Collins’ s calm, analytical compositions, with their bright colors and lambent light, form lyrical tableaux that highlight the actors’ vulnerable intimacy. Kathleen Collins’s Lost Masterwork, “Losing Ground” 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z If it were not for the lambent fire in her eye, you might take her in the sculptured grace of her attitudes, for an immortal bronze of Cleopatra. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z She opened her arms, as if to hug her vengeance to her heart, and looked at me steadily with eyes that thrilled me with their lambent fire. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside 2012-02-24T03:00:26.570Z As thus the effulgence tremulous I drink With cherish'd gaze, the lambent lightnings shoot Across the sky; or horizontal dart, In wondrous shapes—by fearful murmuring crowds Portentous deem'd. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z The lambent lightning played for awhile, and the thunder bellowed through the boundless sky, and then passed slowly away to the west, very much to my satisfaction. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z Lam′bency, the quality of being lambent: that which is lambent. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z And in the Northwest there was a flush of rose, old rose that deepened and glowed in lambent crimson where a notch between the Selkirks and Rockies marked the approximate location of historic Boat Encampment. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z There is again warmth and mellowness: feeling and fellow feeling acquire depth, lambent airs stir all about him. Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits 2011-11-28T03:00:26.030Z He is twirling two dry sticks between his hands; of a sudden, a lambent flame shoots forth, seizes the wood, makes away with it, and leaves nothing but blackened cinders behind. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z Pure inflammable air seems to consist of phlogiston and water, and the lambent kinds to be the same thing, with the addition of some oily vapour diffused through it. Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry 2011-10-11T02:01:05.817Z I then took my lamp and held it so that its lambent flame could warm the cockles of every mosquito's heart clinging to the ceiling. Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel 2011-10-06T02:00:32.743Z The Enchantress's cable was marked by lambent spangles, and there was a flicker of green fire along the tramp's dark side. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z From about her neck and breast there shone what is known as a lambent flame which at times became tempestuous. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z At that moment Joan Darc's gown takes fire and the flames that flare up from it join the hundred other lambent tongues that shoot upward. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z This substance burns with a lambent flame in the common temperature of our atmosphere, but with a strong and vivid flame if it be exposed to the open air when moderately warm. Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry 2011-10-11T02:01:05.817Z One way he could see flashes of lambent flame. The Tigress 2011-08-30T02:00:39.657Z They followed us and the wind, a living host, the blue of their slopes and hollows as deep as ecstasy, their crests white and lambent. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z It looked like a living thing of lambent fire, as it writhed and screamed in response to the pressure on the key. The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune 2011-08-27T02:00:19.473Z At times, his unfailing humor or graceful fancy even plays lambently over the same stern prospect. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z Fires died down in her hazel eyes, lay lambent as soft moonlight, flickered into laughter before he had seen the fire. The Thousandth Woman 2011-08-15T02:00:25.383Z In three minutes it had hold of the boughs, curling its lambent point round them, as a cow licks up the grass with her tongue. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z The little huddle of San Antonio’s white houses is on slightly rising ground, and the lambent green of the jungle is beside them and over them. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z As they raced along the glare grew brighter and angrier, glowing with a lambent red core from which flames could be seen leaping skyward like a nest of fiery serpents. The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune 2011-08-27T02:00:19.473Z Such I began, such am, and so shall end: The star that did my being frame Was but a lambent flame; Some light indeed it did dispense, But less of heat and influence. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z All the time her lambent green eyes remained fixed upon Marjorie. Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z The eyes also contained the lambent fire that Mrs. Gaskell noticed in Charlotte’s eyes, ready to flash indignation and scorn. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, September 1893 2011-07-21T02:00:22.737Z The prow as it dipped sank into drifts of lambent snow. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z Only His lambent eyes spoke, spoke to those invisible powers hovering around Him in the final hour. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z The brilliant crevices widened, grew longer and more vivid, until the whole firmament was aglow with flashes of intensest light, while all our spars were outlined in lambent flame. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z As the day fixed for the wedding drew near, Perry-Morton was most regular in his visits—most devoted, and his lambent softness seemed to pervade the parental drawing-rooms. Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z It was not enveloped in lambent blue flame—it was not crackling in the burning brandy. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z Sometimes the colours ran together, and made a little river or lake of lambent interfusing and changing tints, which, by their variegation, seemed to imitate the flowing of water, or waves made by the wind. The Princess and Curdie 2011-07-06T02:00:49.480Z Dr. Macrae looked steadily at his son, and his large, lambent eyes were full of tears. Playing With Fire 2011-06-29T02:00:30.590Z You should have seen his eyes slowly moving their lambent lights as they followed the rhythm of the pendulum from side to side. All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z There was in her wide eyes a look almost of consternation; they seemed to glow, shot with the fire of her lambent thoughts. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z "Oh, that," said Olwen, looking down at the green lambent water of which the rippling light beat up, soft and magical upon a face whose young curves could have dared a harsher radiance. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z The eastern horizon was lit by Aurora-like lightning,—soft, lambent and incessant. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z Little by little he takes back to him life and strength; little by little he spells out this strange, sweet, new life, and analyzes it, and basks in the lambent sunshine. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z His ideas play upon his countenance like lambent lightning, but die away, voiceless, indefinite, unrevealed. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z The wit and irony are, as a rule, lambent rather than piercing, but they are sometimes exceedingly keen. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z No words can give the whiteness of the Biscay rollers, silent with distance, tossing their columns of foam to the vast and lambent sky. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z They could see the dim shade of the old church, and a clear green planet flashing with lambent streams beyond the square tower. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z Here the bodies of the blessed are clothed with a pure and lambent light, as with a garment. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Sometimes it was a lambent flame of blue, sometimes a flush of faint rose colour; sometimes the dark clouds were displayed in bold relief against a bright sheet of yellow or white. Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-17T02:00:19.780Z The two are become one, and the lambent laughter of this comedy is due to the radioactivity of the thing itself, and not to glow-worms incongruously stuck over its surface. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z Her face was grave, but there was a smile in her eyes, which had the lustre and depth of a sapphire, and a lambent glow like the heart of a blue flame. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z Here and there a ball of lambent flame appeared, drifting idly above the steaming, festering earth. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z Behold, O friends, old Ennius' carv�d stone, Who wrote your father's deeds with lambent pen; Let no tears deck my funeral, for lo, My soul immortal lives on lips of men. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z As the prisoners arrived at the place of their torture and death, and caught sight of the seats swaying over the lambent flames, they readily surmised the cruel torments to which they were destined. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z Her lambent eyes glowed with pure delight, and Joe noted with approval the fire in her voice. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z But the arena was otherwise empty, and his lambent eyes, searching eagerly for the cause of so much reek, were raised at last to the intent row of faces looking down at him. The Great Mogul Breathlessly she listened and watched, and presently she saw the eyes of the padding intruder glowing like balls of lambent green fire. Stranded in Arcady Henry Meats had been very much like Henry Barnes; but where was now that lambent flame in the eyes? Sinister Street, vol. 2 And as he spoke he seemed consciously to exercise their vile charm, so that his irises kindled slowly with lambent blue flames. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Hence the ideographic power, the directness, the sympathy, the lambent humor that characterize the 'Essays,' the 'Vicar,' the 'Deserted Village,' and 'She Stoops to Conquer.' Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 The dawn was doubtless coming up behind the hills to the east, but the darkness was still absolute as ever about the camp, save indeed for the lambent brilliancies of the stars. The Firebrand But there was no tenderness in Jack's blue eyes, rather lambent fire. A Bed of Roses As Horse Shoe received these tokens of victory, he asked, with a lambent smile, and what he intended to be an elegant and condescending composure, "Your name, sir, if I mought take the freedom?" Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency Then she looked back, her eyes lambent, her heart throbbing, not alone from the rapid ascent. The Book of Susan A Novel There was a lambent excitement in her manner, which was usually gentle, almost lethargic. Love's Usuries She dropped into a low chair near Amaldi, and leaned forward, chin in hand, her lambent, impish eyes on his. Shadows of Flames A Novel Melton's eyes were like two lambent flames, and as the fellow looked into them, he wilted like a rag. Bert Wilson at Panama See, sweetheart, how the lilies lay Their lambent leaves about our way; Or, pollen-dusty, nod and float Their moon-like flowers around our boat.— One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue And far, how far, from lambent are the flames!— Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes Through the first days of her happiness Sheila walked like a lambent being of another world, whose radiance was almost blinding. Leerie They began to hiss and snarl uneasily, rubbing their reptilian flanks together as they wheeled around, staring at him with lambent eyes. Black Amazon of Mars We gazed, fascinated, at those two lambent points of light, fully expecting to come to hand grips with the 'demon' then and there. Bert Wilson at Panama He had no longer any desire for sleep, so he devoted himself again to soaking his wrists in the water and letting the lambent phosphorescence stream through his fingers. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life These radii are alive: their undulation is like lambent flames; they resemble, when opened, the spokes of a wheel, of four or five feet in diameter. Toilers of the Sea Her eyes grew dark with speculation, and oddly lambent. The Destroying Angel Her eyes upon your sight Broke with the lambent purity of planetary light, And an intellectual beauty, like a light within a vase, Touched every line with glory of her animated face. Fugitive Poetry As thus he spoke, his stature seemed to grow More lofty, with a step more firm he trod; Whilst a mild radiance, lambent on his face, Shone, as the radiance from the mercy-seat. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 Where had his wits been, when the amber eyes smouldered and broke into a lambent flame that seemed to play all round his heart? Command Crazed by the infernal round, unable to resist the fascination of the lambent flames, one of them sprang and fell into the fire. Sónnica She was never more to have that serene expectation of happiness which I had seen in the soft and lambent light of her eyes on my first knowing of her marriage to Gaston Cheverny. Francezka With lambent faces, mimicking the moon, The water lilies lie; Dotting the darkness of the long lagoon Like some black sky. The Garden of Dreams His dark eyes shot such a gleam of lambent fury at the porter that the man’s jaw fell. The Silent Barrier She had a way of striding to the door when she was angry and turning suddenly upon him, her head lowered, her amber eyes full of a lambent, vengeful glare. Command I have seen my own hands covered with a lambent flame; but nothing like this I ever saw.... Psychic Phenomena A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed in Psychical Research The filtering sunlight struck it and sent back lambent fires. One Purple Hope! At three o'clock in the afternoon a low hissing was heard in the caisson, and with a quick flicker the candles first burned low, then flamed anew, the color of the flame a lambent green. The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers No—” The “lambent flame,” and “Italia’s rare, o’er-running beauty,” enchanted his vision. The Brownings Their Life and Art The heart of the emerald shot lambent flames at him like the cool green shadows beneath a waterfall. Command The pearls and diamonds he had amused himself with making larger than they were, and filled these with a winking fire, those with a lambent luster. Aurora the Magnificent This was not the night, nor mine the mood, to shut high heaven from my eyes, my thoughts, the lambent flame of my love? Wings of the Wind The sunbeam of her fleeting life Gladdened the unsuspecting days; And all the dusky imps of strife Paled in her wisdom's lambent rays. Ioläus The man that was a ghost The Incarnation will be pondered to the accompaniment of roast beef, and the Atonement will play lambently around the solid richness of plum-pudding. Arrows of Freethought The faint eery light that glowed in the stranger’s deep-set eyes was not the lambent flame seen in the chatoyant orbs of some night-prowling jungle beast. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 The moon was creeping slowly across the blue vault, like a great phantom mingling with the lambent purity of the stars. Due South or Cuba Past and Present A lambent rosy flame seemed to envelop for an instant the beautiful Hortensia, disappearing instantly, yet leaving its scarlet traces on cheek and brow. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 It was merely a building superimposed upon a skyscraper, but in the dark there was no skyscraper, and the amazing structure hung there lambent, silent, enigmatic, a Wagnerian temple in the sky. Westward with the Prince of Wales In her mental turmoil that last passionate utterance of the man played like a lambent flame. In the Shadow of the Hills "If I had succeeded in reaching New Chicago, you might have gained a different impression of me," retorted Winford, his lambent eyes flaming at the thought. The Space Rover Now licking the quivering masts, now blown aside in tongue-shaped jets, the lambent flame spurted from every crack and crevice, leaped up from every port-hole of that splendid steamer. The House Under the Sea A Romance The lambent glow of beauty might fall upon him unheeded; even its lightnings might not penetrate his shell. The Prisoner At first he could see only blueness, pale and lambent. When the Sleepers Woke Oswald's eye had been fixed upon it but a few seconds, when he beheld a small lambent gleam of lightning pierce through the most opaque part; then another, and more vivid. The Pirate, and The Three Cutters Those below saw the flash of his lambent eyes. The Space Rover Outer darkness, rent with ripping, roaring storms, flurries of ice, snow and sleet, shot through and through by balls of lambent flames in unguessable numbers. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 Against the lambent brown a spot glowed red where the beam struck. The Great Dome on Mercury She was all lambent, biting flames, he was a red fire glowing steadily. The Rainbow In her own eyes shifted the dangerous, lambent flame of a beast at bay, and for a moment she was on the point of darting at his throat. In the Morning of Time He looked up from the trail to the hills, now lambent with violet and shifting orange, and their shapes as they moved out into his approaching view were the shapes of yesterday afternoon. Red Men and White The right hand of the figure was outstretched as if in warning; and from the palm to the tips of the fingers was a mass of lambent flame. Frances Kane's Fortune But the Rhone flows like one lambent jewel; its surface is nowhere, its ethereal self is everywhere, the iridescent rush and translucent strength of it blue to the shore, and radiant to the depth. English: Composition and Literature Notwithstanding, she was proud of him as he lounged in his lambent fashion in her home, he was so attentive and courteous to her mother and to herself all the time. The Rainbow He thought how lovely she was as she looked up at him, her lashes curving back from her lambent eyes, the soft curls of her hair ruffling back from her warm forehead. Juggernaut The whole bottom was a dim, vast region of many-coloured lights, or more properly, dim lambent glows, of blue, green and yellow, which winked and nodded on and off in the blackness. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation 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 There was no suggestion of a body, only that majestic head crowned with hyacinthine locks and limned in lambent fire. The Doomsman And his courtesy and his agreement might be all her mother's, but the lambent flicker of his body was for herself. The Rainbow Such a lambent blue, and so full of soul. Nine Little Goslings Her countenance, turned to the light, shone like a white flame; it was tensely aquiver with passionate earnestness, lambent with the flowering of her body, of dim desire, the heritage of flesh. Mountain Blood A Novel As Horse-Shoe received these tokens of victory, he asked, with a lambent smile, and what he intended to be an elegant and condescending composure, “Your name, sir, if I mought take the freedom?” Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader He had fine, lambent, gentle eyes which lighted up his face when he smiled, as Lincoln’s illuminated his. The Brown Mouse But we saw the temples by sunrise, when the mistlike lambent opals bathed the bases of the tall columns salmon in the morning light! Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories The "lambent blue" of Johnnie's eyes grew more lambent than ever as she tried to make head and tail of this wonderful hash of people and facts. Nine Little Goslings In burning beards of comets red I float; I dance with lambent torches on the stars; I wash with sulphurous flame the roaring throat Of peaks, and blaze beneath the thunder's cars. The Masque of the Elements One by one the sheets fell upon the table, and all alone in the midst the lock of red auburn hair sent up its little lambent flame in the sunshine. Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 The sun had dipped behind the blue hills of the west, and the pale, lambent glow of the evening star shot athwart the sky, ere the bridge was reached. The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad The lambent fire that played round his heart, burns to that heart's very core. Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical Really, that’s all I said—just affectionate, lambent, helpful criticism, with a little Tarragon in it. Marge Askinforit It seemed instead of being a small, lost atom in a swirling world, he was a part of all this lambent starlight; this whispering air of the desert. The Desert Fiddler The surf, however, was of help, for it flashed into sheets of spangled radiance as it washed across the reef, leaving dark patches among the lambent foam. Brandon of the Engineers But he too wanted to see the lambent metal spewed from between the shining rolls. The Rapids His soul, this odd inexplicable word that may or may not have a physical counterpart beyond the letters of the word, was falling into this alien, colossal structure with its lambent bluish light. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais One day a boy who dwelt in the palace fell asleep in its portico, and as he lay there some attendants who passed by saw a flame playing lambently around his head. Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality There she sat, her great bulging abdomen distended with eggs, her lambent eyes shining with the terrible passion of anticipation. Barbarians You must sit beside a company of flames leaping from a solidly established fire, flames curling out of the lambent craters of a deep centre; and steadily look into that. Old Junk Every part of me was open and exposed to the licentious courses of her hands, which, like a lambent fire, ran over my whole body, and thawed all coldness as they went. Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) Then he lifted his head and, in the way of the Thais, a morose, soft, and artful smile alighted on his swarthy countenance like a lambent shadow of a descending airplane across a naked field. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais But at their departure a train of fire followed upon their track, and a lambent flame played curiously upon the wooden crockets for a few seconds, and then disappeared. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 Joy, from Truth's pure and lambent fires, Smiles out upon the ardent seeker; Joy leads to Virtue Man's desires, And cheers as Suffering's step grows weaker. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 They have a taste of native earth, beautifully rarefied: to change the metaphor, they illuminate the page with a kind of lambent common sense. From a Cornish Window A New Edition And two fair clubs, O royal child, One Charmer and one Pointed styled With flame of lambent fire aglow, On thee, O Chieftain, I bestow. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse So the light of righteousness, as well as the lambent flame of love, burn together on that central fire of the universe. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Still unconquered, we hauled down our drooping colors, their laurels all fresh and green, with mingled pride and grief, gave her to the flames, and set the lambent fires roaring about the shotted guns. The Monitor and the Merrimac Both sides of the story “Look there, Harry,” observed Roger, pointing to the main-topgallant yard; and, looking up, Harry perceived two lambent globes of greenish fire. Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess Her teeth were clenched upon her bloodless lips, her face seemed marble, her eyes lambent flames. Cruel As The Grave His strength was so different from hers—quick, muscular, lambent. The Lost Girl A lambent flame burst from the furnace; grew brighter, until the clouds became rose-tinted; a glory as brilliant as short-lived, for soon the blaze subsided, the glow swiftly faded, and the sky again darkened. Under the Rose And death would ache still, I am sure; it would be lambent, uneasy. Look! We Have Come Through! Under this fallen cross, two soft eyes of heavenly blue are dying in their sunken sockets—to me! to me! the pure and lambent flame which once lightened and glimmered through them! The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Six feet four; shoulders that would just barely go through a door; muscled like Atlas and Hercules combined; skin a gleaming, satiny bronze; hair a rippling mass of lambent flame. Masters of Space The time is now, the wine-cup full and full Of lambent heaven, a pledging-cup; Let now all mortal men take up The drink, and a long, strong pull. New Poems The long lashes fell to the hot cheeks and curtained lambent windows of light. The Highgrader Or the gloom of the deep glen is dissipated and devoured by the lambent tongues of fire, while the rocks over against each other burn with the additional radiance reflected from their faces. Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia There came a shout from out of the dark and in an instant two great beams of lambent light cut wide swaths through the pall. Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport As the sun rose, the yellow changed suddenly to scarlet and for a few moments earth and sky quivered in a lambent red fire. The Forbidden Trail He could not see her now that his lantern was concealed, but he looked up and fancied her eyes were shining more lambent than his own lantern that smelled unpleasantly. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure As flame after flame of lambent fire plays over the southern sky some eve of summer lightning, so Patsy came, and flashed, and passed. Patsy We see him, like other shepherds on the same hills, long after "keeping watch over his flocks by night," and overwhelmed by all the magnificence of an eastern sky, with its lambent lights. The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms Your fancies glinting on my central mind Fell off in beams of many hues, Soft lambent light. Ionica He shook it with the more surety, because of his old-time memories of Brenton, the lank, ill-nourished youth with the crude manners and the lambent eyes. The Brentons The little struggle had brought a flame to her eye that grew large and lambent; where her lower neck showed in a chink of her kerchief-souffle it throbbed and glowed. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure No matter how it came—whether in the forked flashes of the storm, or the lambent gleamings of the summer sky—he would sit and gaze at it in solemn wonder. The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables An almost imperceptible breeze had sprung up, and the way made by the vessel as she passed through the water was indicated by a stream of what appeared lambent blue flame. The Red Eric Oswald’s eye had been fixed upon it but a few seconds, when he beheld a small lambent gleam of lightning pierce through the most opaque part; then another, and more vivid. The Pirate That tinge is what gives its strange glitter to his fooling; madness playing safely and lambently around the stoutest common sense. Figures of Several Centuries Yes, I thought so;” for, even as he was speaking, sheaves of thin pencils of soft lambent light streamed right away up toward the zenith, then sank, wavered about, and then streamed up once again. Steve Young Then all was silent again for nearly five minutes, and the darkness, the faint, pale, lambent light shed by the waves, and the silence, produced a strange shrinking sensation that was almost painful. Sappers and Miners The Flood beneath the Sea “Ay, ay, sir,” was the reply; and with a mighty rush away on high sped the answering signal, to burst and fill the air above them with lambent light. Middy and Ensign Soon after the dipping of the oars could be seen as they threw up the lambent light in flashes, while an ever-widening track of sparkling water was plain to the eyes. Menhardoc Olivia spoke with intense feeling, her eyes lambent and her lips quivering. Doom Castle Then all was silence and darkness save where the movement of an oar sculling over the stern made the water flash and gleam with phosphorescence, and raised up ripples of pale lambent, golden light. The Black Bar Just then the lambent flashing of the phosphorescent water and the soft splashing ceased. Fitz the Filibuster At first it was so dull and lambent that it suggested thoughts of the will-o’-the-wisp. Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp Dark as was the night there was no difficulty whatever in identifying the character of the wreckage, for it floated in a regular swirl of lambent greenish phosphorescent light. The Pirate Island A Story of the South Pacific Her head was swathed mountainously in shawls; her wild, black, lambent eyes had the look of distant contemplation. Doom Castle The darkness closed down upon us like a shutter, and the stars leapt out of the rapidly darkening blue overhead with that soft, lambent, clarity of light which is never beheld save in the tropics. A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron Look!” whispered Fitz, as there was a faint lambent glare far astern, one which gradually increased, and Poole whispered back— “They are burning a blue light.” Fitz the Filibuster Tom whispered these words, and pointed in the opposite direction, to a lambent light which seemed to be moving slowly over the marshy edge of the mere. Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp We were so close to him that we could even distinguish the greenish lambent gleam of his eyes. The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron "I see your soul as a flame of fire,—a lambent flame, with tongues of red and yellow——" And now Patty did laugh outright. Patty Blossom Instead of the fierce light beating about a throne, it played lambently upon a sty. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 3: Byron Nadia tore herself from Stevens' embrace, to see upon the lambent screen the happily smiling faces of her mother and sister. Spacehounds of IPC A lambent red flame lighting up the hair of a man's head, while at the same moment his beard is blue and luminous. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The golden gilt of imagination decorated his phrases and the lambent light of his philosophy shone like the rosy dawn upon a field of variegated wild flowers. Shakspere, Personal Recollections It must be restrained, controlled, guarded, that fierce conflagration; but our joy cannot only consist of pure, clear, lambent, quiescent elements. Joyous Gard I should not be surprised at any moment to see ears, eyes, and nose emit lambent flames. The Heather-Moon Within the room to which it belonged a lambent light played. Brood of the Witch-Queen The Third Sonata, despite its lambent andante, is patently the work of one who has studied his Liszt and loves his Chopin. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers In the midst of her lamentations a sacred omen is given, in the appearance of lambent flames playing about the head of Iulus. Raphael A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation Like those weird heat-lightnings that play in the firmament on summer evenings, it retains the lambent warmth and luminous loveliness, without the blasting violence. The Friendships of Women I knew she understood my veiled allusion, for I saw her bite her lip and again the lambent flame leaped up in her eyes. The Lost Valley When first that lambent light played upon the walls of the passage both stopped, stricken motionless with fear and amazement. Brood of the Witch-Queen Save only the lambent "Prometheus," they each reveal to some degree the influence of Wagner. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers She said not so—how could she dare, she that was dying without hope?—but there was a lambent gleam in her sunken eye, as of a ray of the future's sunshine playing upon it. The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 He saw her eyes; they were like pools of lambent phosphorescence in the black shadow of her hair. Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure An edge of white is seen, and scarcely seen, As soft she breathes, her coral lips between; A lambent ray steals from her half-closed eye, As her breast heaves a short imperfect sigh. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan Emerson shared the open expectation of the new world, Carlyle struggled under the gloom and pessimism of the old—a greater character, but a far less lambent and helpful spirit. The Last Harvest She had none of Georgy's gay boisterousness, but her blitheness of heart seemed like a lambent fire playing over profound depths of gladness and security. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Low and mocking, a laugh broke from Apleon, upon whose brow there still played that lambent flame. The Mark of the Beast Lord Cromer's public speeches and published writings scarcely give a hint of his humour, which was lambent and sometimes almost boyish. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Browning felt the charm of a lambent moon: "Voluptuous transport rises with the corn Beneath a warm moon like a happy face." Nature Mysticism Here and there in the moonlight steered ominous black triangles, circling us, leading us, sheering across bow and flashing wake, all phosphorescent with lambent sea-fire—the fins of great sharks. Police!!! Each stalk had turned into a tall, straight flame of lambent rose. The Second Latchkey The letters blazed with a soft lambent flame, and he fell reverently upon his knees. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 The lambent amphitheatre of the inclosing ridges was like the wall of a jail which he longed to cross and return no more. Tales of the Chesapeake Besides, memory that merged to conscious realization was playing in lambent flames through his whole being round the form of the figure against the skyline of the Ridge. The Freebooters of the Wilderness The ward was flooded with the soft lambent light of September sunshine, and it sheltered, I should say, some twenty-three men. Leaves from a Field Note-Book As a last resource, she caught up a jug of milk, and dashed it over the four lambent flames, and they died out at once. The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural His face had lost the light that illuminated it in the pulpit, but his eyes gleamed with a lambent triumph. The Helpmate Then they wandered as if accidentally to the countenance of Mr. Palma, and a lambent flame seemed to kindle in their brown depths. Infelice She sat upon her throne, and none might tell Whether her limbs the lambent lustre cast Upon the pearls of which it was composed, Or they cast beauty on her glowing form. The Arctic Queen For the next few minutes black-back was here, there, and everywhere, leaping and dodging in and out like a lambent flame. The Way of the Wild As he was borne along through the soft, lambent air, everything he passed appealed to his heart and imagination. What Timmy Did Young Wesley stepped out this time with a honeyed smile, but with a new-born light in his hazel eyes—a demoniac light, lambent and almost playful. Hetty Wesley This is St. Elmo's fire, a brush of lambent light, which plays around the masts of ships and the tops of trees, when clouds are low and tension great. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science The lovely lake, the valley fair And lonely in the lambent air, The ocean touched with silver everywhere— In Thee their treasures, all combined, I find. The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse He pointed an accusing forefinger at Bismarck, whose lambent eyes of terror glowed from beneath the valance of the sofa. All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches But the name of Robert Raikes shall never be forgotten; and the lambent flame of his glory is that eternal fire which rushed down from heaven to devour the sacrifice of Elijah. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader The right hand of the figure was outstretched as if in warning; and from the palms to the tips of the fingers was a mass of lambent flame. Melchior's Dream and Other Tales Auroral colors swarmed, As rosy-flickering stains, Or lambent green, or gold, or crimson, warmed The pulsing crystal of the spirit's veins With ever-changing brightness. Myth and Romance Being a Book of Verses He had seen two lambent green dots glowing above him and had fired with that quick instinct of placing his shot—the result of long practice. The Ridin' Kid from Powder River No twinkling, no scintillation, no nictitation, disturbed their pure and lambent gleam. All Around the Moon Behind them there were great empty reaches of lambent blue, and on the sharp edge of the shadowed hills there was a line of fire. What Necessity Knows The hand was withdrawn and a horrible face took its place—a pallid corpse-like mask, with lambent fire sporting on the narrow forehead and the high cheek-bones. The Bread-winners A Social Study Jupiter and Saturn rolled together like drops of lambent flame about to blend in one. The Story of the Other Wise Man There is the same geniality, the same tender pathos, the same lambent humor, the same delicate observation of details, the same overpowering instinct of literary art. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Poor Charles's wild humour flickers over this page like lambent flame; yet he was serious at heart without a doubt, and his whirling words rouse an echo in many a breast to this day. Side Lights And would she murmur it with the low, sweet voice, or only look it with the clear and lambent eyes? Macleod of Dare A lambent light played all over her form, and to Lawrence Newt's eyes she had never seemed so beautiful. Trumps She was instantly swallowed up as in a gulf of flame, which raged, and roared, and shot up in a hundred lambent points, as if exulting in its prey. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest She read comprehension in his changed face and the shadow in her eyes, lambent and profound, deepened. Success A Novel Because she was fairly lambent with the wonder of it. The Real Adventure A vivid blaze of lambent lightning lighted the room; the awful death-rattle sounded once more. The Baronet's Bride "Oh, tell me," she cried with vehemence: "show me who thou art!"—a mist curled round her, and a lambent flame, like the soft lightning of a summer's night, shot from it. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 Again the flame shot high in air, again roared and raged, again broke into a multitude of lambent points, after which it suddenly expired. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest Far above the star the air was populous with lambent forms and resonant with shouting voices, and she heard the words: "Peace on earth, good-will to men!" Sevenoaks When the operation is proceeding very rapidly a lambent flame occasionally appears in the tube just before the platinum wire, but this flame is never propagated back through the narrow tube into the bromine bottle. Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 Jenny, with the cruel unerringness of an exasperated woman, was piercing to Emmy's heart with fierce lambent flashes of insight. Nocturne The verdigris of her sheathing was vivid as green light; and the languid dock water, the colour of jade, glinting round her hull, was lambent with hues not its own. London River Other items relative to the storms of the stage and their accessories are: Spirits of right Nantz brandy for lambent flames and apparitions. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character At first I thought it was dead, but when I looked closer I saw a lambent fire in its amber eyes. Famous Modern Ghost Stories Win touched a switch which shut off light from the one unshaded electric bulb hanging like a lambent pear over her head. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl All the vast universe lives in one beautiful Summer—made lambent light, offering gladness. Songs, Sonnets & Miscellaneous Poems Then he sat gazing as if fascinated by the lambent, darting flashes deep from the blue-white heart. The Diamond Master He—” But Ooma turned away from the man, and looked through the window, with the lambent glare of a wild animal in his eyes. The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate Wanting the radiant luster of her eyes, letters, lambent and golden, grew duller than Saturnian lead. Famous Modern Ghost Stories He' was a "lambent flame along the ground" if you like. Acton's Feud A Public School Story Then, as I walked along a fence which later by day I saw had a comfortable resting board on top, two lambent golden eyes surveyed me out of inky darkness! Twelve Men She was made nurse to the queen's child, fed him with her finger, and in the night-time, by means of a lambent flame, burned away his impurities. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology And once again he felt the swift lambent ecstasy of a love that he had never till now guessed at; a joy beyond words, beyond dreams, beyond belief. The Devil's Garden It requires no adept knowledge, but simply the natural gift of a good clairvoyant subject to see them passing to and fro, from man to objects and vice versa like a bluish lambent flame. Five Years of Theosophy In the gay circles of New Orleans he floats with lambent wings and irresistible fine eyes, its serenest butterfly, admired and spoiled alike by the French and American element. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Carlyle had it as remarkably as Browning, or nearly as remarkably. 398He also had wit—a heavier wit than Browning's, less lambent, less piercing, but as forcible. The Poetry Of Robert Browning It was witnessed by Elisha and the sons of the prophets—and a heavenly equipage, lambent with supernal glow, carried him in triumph out of sight. Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters A pillar of lambent flame, which seemed to her to be close at hand, was rising up in the air as though it reached the very heavens. The Sign of the Red Cross The Wondership staggered and then seemed to leap into lambent flame. The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone Sheila was getting near to the region of beautiful sunsets and lambent twilights and the constant movement and mystery of the sea. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Out from the broken blocks of stone now and again there rises a lambent flame, to shine like a meteor for a moment and then disappear. The Amateur Poacher Her ideas follow one another with prodigious rapidity, and produce a lambent play which is fed by her heart alone. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women The lambent flames still played about the heaps of burning ruins, but the fury of the conflagration had abated through lack of material upon which to feed itself. The Sign of the Red Cross She glanced at him with all the sweetness and tenderness of her great love lambent in her wistful sea-blue eyes. Kindred of the Dust Far away the orange ray of a lighthouse began to quiver in the lambent dusk. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Her glorious eyes flashed with a strange lambent light. A Heroine of France "How do you know that?" he demanded, frowning upon her while his eyes still gleamed with that lambent fire that made her half afraid. Greatheart The rich masses of pale hair were luxuriously nestled around her shoulders and the blazing eyes flamed, lambently, under the black brows--but that was all. Mr. Isaacs Only think of that picture, shining through the mellow haze of Indian Summer, and flashing with the lambent glimmer of a myriad glassy leaves. In the Footprints of the Padres Imagine these roads, delineated to the eye by tall chimneys or tubes of glass through which played an electric current, converting each one into a lambent pillar. The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars And two fair clubs, O royal child, One Charmer and one Pointed styled— With flame of lambent fire aglow, On thee, O Chieftain, I bestow. Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala In this case, again, the veldt was alight everywhere, but it was only short grass, and we could trot safely through the thin lambent line of flame. In the Ranks of the C.I.V. She was pale and nervous, with the kind of nervousness that kept her smiling and still, but sent the queer, lambent flashes into her eyes. The Wild Olive It was twilight, and the light was then large and greatly lambent, very bright, broad at the bottom and terminating acutely upward. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 During the day the rays of the sun are concentrated upon this ball of stone, and at night the stored-up sunlight is radiated into lambent phosphorescent light. The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars Wit, quotation, anecdote, eloquence, exhortation, rhetoric, sarcasm, and very rarely denunciation, are launched at the reader, till he feels little lambent flames beginning to kindle in him. Emerson and Other Essays Now it blew up and came down as if one of her own unstable Christmas trees had toppled over on her with all its ropes of tinsel, its lambent tapers, and its eggshell splendors. Mrs. Budlong's Christmas Presents He remembered afterward though he paid no heed to it at the time, how those eyes grew wide with awe and flashed with strange, lambent brightness. The Wild Olive Know the stars yonder, The stars everlasting, Are fugitive also, And emulate, vaulted, The lambent heat lightning And fire-fly's flight. Poems Household Edition Even as he spoke, a lambent, sparkling liquid began to flow through the pipette, into the flask. The Air Trust Opening the door, she crouched on her four legs as if in crawling through tall grass she could extricate herself from the land of her enemies to a land of lambent color. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America Henceforth, the large, lambent eyes shone in their moonlight beauty without any overhanging cloud. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 It was some time in the last summer, that he had made up a definite judgment in the premises under which he commenced his lambent action. Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio His cheerfulness was inexhaustible, his wit keen and lambent without being acrid, his speech clear, fluent, and genial, and his fund of anecdote commensurate with his remarkable narrative power. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 But even in the face of query, Sarah Kantor was two flights down and well through the lambent aisles of the copper shop. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 The moon above the empty Umsong stadium was a lambent glow over the rice and gave a slight visibility to the forest that interconnected a nearby field to the stadium. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America But such eyes! large and lambent, with a foreshadowing of sadness in their expression. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 His words were like a lambent flame, playing with some indestructible material. Bred in the Bone It may possibly suggest that lambent ignition of the brain which the fiery drinks of the establishment produce, and which so many infatuated victims think delightful. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's The new-born brimstone butterflies were upon the wing, a flutter of lambent green. A Tramp's Sketches Could he withdraw, while, as he held her soft hand, that lambent fire played along his nerves? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 The glance he stole at Hermia revealed a set expression, a cheek highly flushed and a lambent eye. Madcap It held within it an unmatched faculty for pathos, a capacity for expressing a lambent and kindly humour, a power of pungency in satire and a descriptive vividness that English could not give. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge Dr. Johnson says that dirty images were as natural to Swift as sublime ones were to Milton;—we may say that images at once lambent and laughable were those which were natural to Hood. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 About us and around floated lambent reds and blues and greens. A Tramp's Sketches For his delicate humour and lambent satire always had in view simply the practical object of clearing a plain way for the good life through the "Aberglaube" of theology. Pantheism, Its Story and Significance Religions Ancient and Modern The sunlight was spattered lavishly among the shadows, glowing with a lambent light in the hidden places under shrub and thicket and dancing madly on leaf and bough. Madcap Mr Toots escorted the fair bride, around whose lambent spectacles two gauzy little bridesmaids fluttered like moths. Dombey and Son A foot or two from it stood something like the standee of a compass, bearing, like it a cradled dial under whose crystal ran concentric rings of prisoned, lambent vapours, faintly blue. The Moon Pool Sometimes the colours ran together, and made a little river or lake of lambent, interfusing, and changing tints, which, by their variegation, seemed to imitate the flowing of water, or waves made by the wind. The Princess and Curdie Everywhere the false and the true, the good and the evil, the lambent light of heaven and the sulphurous shadows of hell meet and blend. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 In the distance, from a conical heap of reeds and dry straws, man after man emerged, one after the other, their legs and chests naked, lambent and dark as old bronze. The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution His lambent eyes were stupid, he moaned, he rubbed his forehead. Main Street Dazzled as before, I followed through the lambent cascades pouring from the high, carved walls; paused, and my eyes clearing, looked up—straight into the faces of the Three. The Moon Pool Under the influence of doubt and fear acting upon love, the invisible bar to happiness glowed with a lambent flame that threatened dire disaster. The House Behind the Cedars Venus flamed a lambent disk of pale saffron, low over the horizon. The Octopus : A story of California Instead of the grey that often dulls this complexion, her eyes were of a blue at once intense and tender, and they seemed to burn on what they looked at with a soft, lambent flame. The Rise of Silas Lapham She was no longer the same as in the independent days, when her intellect played like lambent lightning over conventions and formalities which he at that time respected, though he did not now. Jude the Obscure It seemed to open into space; a space filled with lambent, coruscating, many-coloured mist whose brightness grew even as I watched. The Moon Pool About the eyes, whose soft and lambent light of other days had turned into a hard and troubled sharpness, spread concentric rings, united by a net-work of veins and wrinkles. The Indian Lily and Other Stories She could not go to sleep, but spied upon him continually, watching his every movement with her lambent, yellow eyes, clear as amber. The Octopus : A story of California The fire in her blood shone lambent in the eyes that now and again met Amber's. The Bronze Bell My next point will be to make her acknowledge a lambent flame, a preference of me to all other men, at least: and then my happy hour is not far off. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 Ah, but what is that I see on the far horizon's edge, with tongue of lambent flame and eye of forked fire, serpent-headed and griffin-clawed? The United States Since the Civil War But even in the face of query, Sarah Kantor was two flights down and well through the lambent aisles of the copper-shop. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It No drifting, flaccid life could pulse so softly along but it betrayed itself in lambent outlines. Strong Hearts The full harvest-moon, which hung in the lambent heavens above all, pictures itself to my memory as far fairer and more luminous than is the best of nowaday moons. In the Valley Not a word Answered her words that flowed, folded in tones Round which dissolving lambent music played, Like dropping water in a silver cup; Till, round the shoulder of the neighbouring hill, Sudden she disappeared. The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1 It was strange to watch them on the stage, the Italians all lambent, soft, warm, sensuous, yet moving subject round Giuseppino, who was always quiet, always ready, always impersonal. Twilight in Italy Here was Helen Curtis, fleeing from the recollection of him; here was himself, fleeing from the too-sweet actuality of her calm face and lambent eyes; and they were set down face to face in midocean! Quaint Courtships She was such a picture of the martyr by the slow social combustive process, that it almost seemed to him he could see a pale lambent aureole round her head. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 Those smiling eyes, attempering every ray, Shone sweetly lambent with celestial day. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Only his wild savage eyes glowed and flashed with a brooding lambent flame; and his wide nostrils slowly expanded and contracted as though with some inner heaving emotion. The Leopard Woman We were shaken by the vivid, lambent excitement of the youth, we wished him to forget. Twilight in Italy Astonished, he glanced round for an instant, and beheld Zonéla, with a world of love burning in her large lambent eyes, wreathing her round white arms about his humped shoulders. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 It is illumined neither by the fire of rhetoric nor by the lambent light of sensuous diction and rich imagination. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal His features had all the softness of woman without effeminacy; and in his eye there sat a lambent fire which bespoke the man, without roughness, and without ferocity. Imogen A Pastoral Romance Just as we were parting at the door, Helen turned full on me her great, lambent eyes. The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day Under the soothing influence of the heat and the lambent motions of the flames, he fell into a condition which was not sleep, and as little was waking. Home Again He stood constantly in a lambent flicker of humorous good-nature, and he baffled the old gentleman as one is baffled by the play of sunshine over a rippling pool. With the Procession Such hair as was hers, woven seemingly of dull flames, lambent, witching! The Brass Bowl The animation that dwells in the features of virtue, is mild and friendly and lambent; but the sparkles that flash from the eye of enterprising guilt, are momentary, and unrelenting, and impetuous. Imogen A Pastoral Romance The scarlet cross of the Crusader on his broad breast seemed to her swimming eyes to blaze with lambent flame in the yellow torchlight. The Strong Arm No doubt there were faces also, but he was only vaguely aware of three white disks from which flowed forth lambent streams of concentrated light. The Sisters-In-Law Of such lambent ornament, the most important piece is the crocket, of which I rapidly set before you the origin. Val d'Arno Helen was startled at the lambent flash in their depths. The Sign at Six The peculiar blue lambent flame often observed on the surface of our open fire-places is due to the combustion of carbonic oxide, which has been formed in the way we have just described. Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 With gathering murk—with muttering thunder and lambent shoots, we all duly awake, South, North, East, West, inland and seaboard, we will surely awake. Poems By Walt Whitman Is it to the wisdom, the tenderness, the deep beauty, the flashing moral purity that gleamed and shone lambent in His words? Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI The sun shone again, the future smiled; youth, beauty, and all hopes and thoughts bathed the moment in lambent light. Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis It was no unmeaning fact that the 'glory of the Lord' shone lambent round the shepherds, and held them and the angel standing beside them in its circle of light. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke And now came a fiery hand that, hovering in the air, pointed lambent finger at gaping Lewin and at each of the shivering pike-men in turn. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn Occasionally foxes are represented wandering about at night, with lambent tongues of dim fire—kitsune-bi—above their heads. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series The sun shone again; the future smiled; youth, beauty, and all gentle hopes and thoughts bathed the moment in lambent light. Literary and Social Essays Nowhere else do the blended lights of our Lord's superhuman dignity and human tenderness shine with such lambent brightness. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV It is the fitting preparation for the loftier and infinitely more tender and touching aspect of the divine nature which shines with lambent, inviting lustre within the sphere of Revelation. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah He has the fastidiousness which was the main characteristic of the temperament of Thomas Gray; and he has as well Gray's hatred of publicity and much of Gray's lambent humour, more salty than satiric. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century And who can be harmed with that lambent light—like sunshine upon water, or upon a glittering shield—playing around Him? Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms The same eye that beams in lambent love on 'the righteous' burns terribly to the evil doer. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes The living heart of the hope, and the lambent centre of the brightness, is, 'So shall we ever be with the Lord.' Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV Old Maria, whose eyesight was still quite keen enough to distinguish love, even from the further side of a room lit only by the lambent firelight, retired to her own quarters, chuckling to herself. The Vision of Desire But oftener his imagination plays on familiar scenes in town and country with a lambent flame, illuminating and glorifying common objects. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century And in the dead wood everywhere The insects ticked, or bored below The rotted bark; and, glow on glow, The lambent fireflies here and there Lit up their jack-o'-lantern show. Poems He had left her in the middle of a german at three o'clock in the morning, but she now looked as fresh and lambent as a star. Indian Summer And so Christ, shining down lambent, and gentle, but changeless, from the darkest of our skies, will draw, in one great surge of harmonised motion, all the else contradictory currents of our stormy souls. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV She had unclasped it so that it now hung loosely on her, and flung back the hood so that the firelight made lambent flickerings in her hair. The Yeoman Adventurer Whatever it touches it fills With the life of its lambent gleam. Dreams and Days: Poems Whatever it touches it fills With the life of its lambent gleam. Rose and Roof-Tree — Poems But God's redemptive acts are like the guiding pillar of fire, in that they have a side that reveals wrath and evokes terror, and a side that radiates lambent love and kindles happy trust. Expositions of Holy Scripture One evening, going into the laboratory after dark, I observed with astonishment what looked like a lambent flame upon the table. A March on London Long as he read into the silent night, The winking stars soft peeping in his room, While at his hand the dreamy, lambent light Just lit his book and left all else in gloom. Fleurs De Lys, and Other Poems Its jaws were distended, its forked tongue played around its open mouth, flashing in the sunlight like a small lambent flame, while its eyes were intently fixed upon the bird. Children's Edition of Touching Incidents : and Remarkable Answers to Prayer A gate half opened shows the silvery sea Yet distant shining lambent on his way. Babylonian and Assyrian Literature It does us good to have this vision of the eternal realities blazing in upon us, even if it seems to glare at us, rather than to shine with lambent light. Expositions of Holy Scripture If a torch be applied to the surface of a vat, the accumulated gas ignites with a loud report, and a blue lambent flame travels with amazing rapidity over the effervescent liquid. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter It was a low sanded room with no light except a fire of seawood on the hearth, burning clear and lambent with blue salt flames. Moonfleet Daggers of lambent fever race through my brain incessant. Prince Zaleski In a minute the hamal entered and flung a pail of water on the burning pool of oil, reducing the mass of blue lambent flames considerably. Snake and Sword A Novel The glow which is lambent upon the faces of the sons and daughters of this section of sunny Italy, is something that I never saw elsewhere, and that cannot be described. The Youthful Wanderer An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Not a word Answered her words that flowed, folded in tones Round which dissolving lambent music played, Like dropping water in a silver cup; Till, round the shoulder of the neighbouring hill, Sudden she disappeared. A Hidden Life and Other Poems Her large brown eyes were deeply fringed, and lambent with interior light. A Romance of the Republic Mount Tabor On Tabor's height a glory came, And, shrined in clouds of lambent flame, The awestruck, hushed disciples saw Christ and the prophets of the law. Poems She was aware of his passion still; it seemed to play around her like a lambent flame; but the first fierce flare was past. The Bars of Iron Lanyard's mouth twitched, slow colour mounted in his face, the light in his eyes was lambent. Red Masquerade It rises to greatness by the fact that, underneath all its lambent buffoonery, it is aflame with righteous wrath. Byron Phosphoric sparks hissed and crackled forth, and coalesced into a blue lambent flame, which concentrated itself upon a depicted figure, whose precise attitude the ratcatcher assumed as he dropped upon his knees. The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales For sky and water were all one lambent gray by this. The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations It resolved into a glowing hand, transparent, with a lambent, greenish flame flickering over it. The House on the Borderland Glowing in fantastic forms they seemed alive with lambent fire. The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic Those who know his work as a whole know that under the lambent and irrepressible humour which was his gift, there was a foundation of serious thoughts and noble affections and desires. Mark Twain "Very well," said the girl, in demure tones, though lambent mirth still flickered, golden, in the depths of the brown eyes. Average Jones The fire of their natures was a holy fire—a lambent flame which lighted but did not destroy. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" Occasionally enormous curtains of lambent flame rolled and unrolled with a majestic motion, or were shaken to and fro as if by a mighty, noiseless wind. Curiosities of the Sky In his eye the lambent fire, Of his thought the glint, showed kinship With the free improvisator In the land of warmth and vineyards. Poems and Songs Then her face was softly illuminated by the lambent flame of some inner serenity: "But she won't go!" The Iron Woman In some legends of saints, we find that they were born with a lambent circle or golden aureola about their heads. Biographical Essays His cheeks burned, lambent flames gleamed in his brown eyes. Fran Jessica presented to my lambent gaze a visage which besought unspoken sympathy, and mutely breathed a protest against travel in general and this phase of it in particular. Many Kingdoms I can see its great, beautiful, lambent eyes still, and I seized an earthen water-cooler and flung it straight at them. Travels in West Africa His intellect was rather a lambent flame than a genial warmth. Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood She was gone and once more I sat in utter solitude upon that ruby stone, staring at the jewelled flowers and the glorious flaming trees and the lambent waters of the brook. She and Allan Her eyes turned to him timidly, and for the first time he saw in their smoky depths a lambent flame. The Valley of the Giants The embossed silver words seemed to spread a lambent glow over all the squalid little cabin—seemed almost to set it on fire! The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel In the corridors are globes which at night look like lambent moonstones, casting soft light. Palaces and Courts of the Exposition Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady, lambent light;--are luminous, but not sparkling. Hyperion And while this corvine Clatter still endured A lambent Flame, by fragrant Promise lured, Crept in, as all the Inmates cried amain, "The Shop's afire and we are Uninsured!" The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. That sinister smile still played lambent around the corners of his grizzled moustaches. Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose St. George remembered so clearly that he could still recall the tones of Poe's voice, and the peculiar lambent light that flashed from out the poet's dark eyes—the light of a black opal. Kennedy Square Mrs. Clarke sent him a curious keen glance of intense and almost lambent inquiry, but he did not notice it. In the Wilderness As he broke the black surface of coal, a flame shot up, red, lambent, a serpent's tongue. The Crown of Life Set in the middle of this paleness of brow and cheek, her deep brown eyes glowed lambent and intense. The Pit But behind this merely physical attractiveness of his guest glowed a lambent intelligence, quick as lightning. The Fortunate Youth Then slowly, while they watched, a faint blue flame seemed to issue from the wound in Bertram's right side and rise lambent into the air above the murdered body. The British Barbarians Instead of flushing, her face grew paler, and the large eyes were full of lambent light, which seemed to flash out from her soul. Beulah A lambent intelligence played secondarily above his pure Egyptian concentration in darkness. Women in Love A trembling joy, lambent as a faint light, played like a fairy host around him. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The lights of Yarmouth sprang into being, a cluster of lambent orange points studding the dim coast of the Island. The Lamp of Fate Of the two realisms Daudet's is certainly the more genuine, with its lambent humour that glints on even the saddest of his pictures. Balzac His lambent brown eyes alone expressed a discreet professional sympathy. Rolling Stones They threw off their clothes, and he gathered her to him, and found her, found the pure lambent reality of her forever invisible flesh. Women in Love The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid and lambent narrative, finally refines itself out of existence, impersonalizes itself, so to speak. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man On the mast already I see the light play of a lambent St. Elmo's fire; the outstretched sail catches not a breath of wind, and hangs like a sheet of lead. A Journey to the Interior of the Earth The mother sees, And smiles to see, her infant's playful hand Stretched forth to dally with the crested worm, To stroke his azure neck, or to receive The lambent homage of his arrowy tongue. The Task and Other Poems It does not owe its marvelous effects to reflections from the sky, for no sky ever had such an intense blue, filled with lambent light. See America First She did not take any notice of the wavering, indistinct, lambent Birkin, who stood at his side. Women in Love Beneath, thrusting up from the lambent lake like grotesque towers of some drowned fantastic metropolis, the great Shapes stood, black against its glowing. The Metal Monster The light was lambent and uncertain, now sinking almost into insignificance, and now leaping up with a fierceness that caused a deep glow to throb in the very heart of the mountain. For the Term of His Natural Life A watery light Gleamed through the clear transparency, that seemed Another moon new-risen, or meteor fallen From heaven to earth, of lambent flame serene. The Task and Other Poems With the earnest voice there was the fascination of a face alight with a noble beauty, eyes glowing as with lambent flame. The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land She was so quick, and so lambent, like discernible fire, and so vindictive, and so rich in her dangerous flamy sensitiveness. Women in Love Abruptly the watching orbs shook under a hail of sparkling atoms streaming down from the glittering sky; raining upon the lambent lake. The Metal Monster It was in one of these moments of obscurity, that she observed a small and lambent flame, moving at some distance on the terrace. The Mysteries of Udolpho Madame's gray eyes, full of lambent fires, looked into his own. The Puppet Crown His doublet was torn and his shoulder bleeding, whilst his empty scabbard hung like a lambent tail behind him. The Tavern Knight There was something in his presence, Ursula thought, lambent and alive. Women in Love Cleaving the mists, silk of copper hair streaming wide, unearthly eyes lambent, floated up behind them—Norhala. The Metal Monster When he shot the sun at noon, the glow of achievement wrapped him in lambent flame. The Cruise of the Snark The laughter of her mind played like lambent flame over all about her, and from all about her arose answering laughter. Lost Face Certainly the ideas of eloquence, of untroubled repose, of placid eyes, of the lambent beauty on which it is sweet to gaze, harmonise admirably with the idea of a sentry. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 Wanting the radiant lustre of her eyes, letters, lambent and golden, grew duller than Saturnian lead. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 His golden zodiac, no longer tarnished and dull, ran with sun flames; the wondrous rose was a racing, lambent miracle. The Metal Monster Suddenly, in the air before them, not farther up than a low hill-top flared a lambent flame; as they looked at it, the apparition contracted into a focus of dazzling lustre. Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ So that the aquiline lightning was but momentary; and abated to lambent twinklings, with something even of comic in them, as we shall gather. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14 Which is an excellent combination; and gives us the notion of a lambent outer radiance springing from some great inner sea of light and fire in the man. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 01 These are lustreless in ordinary use, but if touched by the vril wand they take a clear lambent flame, which illuminates, yet not burns. The Coming Race From it the lambent torrent poured; billowed down upon us. The Metal Monster And it ended abruptly, a rounded depth of bank, on a broad stream of clear sky, intensely blue, transparently blue, as if through the lambent depths shone the infinite firmament. The Call of the Canyon Beyond it loomed what appeared to be the acute angles of mountain peaks, pierced here and there by little lambent parallelograms. Roads of Destiny During the silence that succeeded, he sat with a quiet expectation beaming in his full, lambent eye. Whirligigs Hence, when volcanic fissures are watched at night, faint lambent flames are frequently seen playing over them, and sometimes these flames are brilliantly colored, through the presence of small quantities of certain metallic oxides. The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire The pledge of his almighty patron's love, I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror and dispel the night. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 It was a very strange light, consisting of brilliant and intermittent flashes, or globes of blue and lambent flame which seemed to leap from nowhere into nowhere, or sometimes to hang poised in mid air. When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot As the night wore on, the sea grew brighter and brighter, until by midnight we appeared to be sailing on an ocean of lambent flames. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales In her eye could be perceived the lambent flame of genius and soul. Whirligigs Lady Ruth lifted her eyes to his, and their lambent fires were suddenly rekindled. The Malefactor The lambent glow of her inscrutable eye as she turned toward me might have been flattering but for my uneasiness in regard to Enriquez. Selected Stories of Bret Harte I woke up to see him seated by my bed, majestic, and, as it seemed to me, lambent, though this may have been my imagination. When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot You find your pleasure in being at one with all things— Fusing in lambent dream, rising and falling As all things rise and fall . The House of Dust; a symphony It is the witchcraft of the serpent's lambent look. Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things Her knowledge of love was purely theoretical, and she conceived of it as lambent flame, gentle as the fall of dew or the ripple of quiet water, and cool as the velvet-dark of summer nights. Martin Eden At the slightest impact of the outside world upon his consciousness, his thoughts, sympathies, and emotions leapt and played like lambent flame. Martin Eden |
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