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Scintillating   Listen
verb
Scintillate  v. i.  (past & past part. scintillated; pres. part. scintillating)  
1.
To emit sparks, or fine igneous particles. "As the electrical globe only scintillates when rubbed against its cushion."
2.
To sparkle, as the fixed stars.






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"Scintillating" Quotes from Famous Books



... began to near each other as they reached the limits of the long elliptical curves which made their course; and presently a great number of scintillating specks were seen in the space enclosed between them. There were the leaping fish, just conscious that they were crowded into a confined place, and desirous of escape. When they were quite close to one another, the boats turned and began to row for the steamer. The "Cornelia" followed; and ...
— A Little Country Girl • Susan Coolidge

... this stood open down to the ground. Looking out, beyond the rich brown of the newly-turned earth in the flower-beds, the lawn stretched away—a dim greyish green, under the long shadows cast by the hollies masking the wall on the left, and glittering, powdered by myriads of scintillating dewdrops, where the early sunshine slanted down on it from between their stiff pinnacles ...
— Deadham Hard • Lucas Malet

... I'm not, either." Then she glanced at him with mischief scintillating in her dark eyes. "Fernando told me you were talking with him this morning. I don't see that it has done you ...
— Sundown Slim • Henry Hubert Knibbs

... our coffee was ready and the bacon for our supper fried, night was upon us, and the bushes near scintillating in the most wondrous way, every twig seeming to ...
— Through Forest and Stream - The Quest of the Quetzal • George Manville Fenn

... for he was faint from the ride from Ostia in the heat of an Italian June. The beautiful gardens glowed in dazzling sunshine which the scintillating jets of the fountains reflected and intensified. The statues seemed to shrink from the blinding light into their niches in the great square-cut hedges, and the tessellated pavement ...
— Romance of Roman Villas - (The Renaissance) • Elizabeth W. (Elizbeth Williams) Champney


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