"Luminousness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as she had pictured—she could have sworn it. Lucetta had a heightened luminousness in her eye over and above the ...
— The Mayor of Casterbridge • Thomas Hardy
... forward. Where the gully deepened their heads were at the edge of the bank, but much of the way was exposed, except for the dark shadows of the slope. Fortunately there were clouds to the west, already obscuring that half of the sky, but to the east nothing was visible against the faint luminousness of the sky-line. Once, far over there to the left, a gun was fired, the flame splitting the night asunder, and against the distant reflection a black figure rose up between, only to be instantly snuffed out again. Hamlin put down his uplifted foot, and waited, in tense, motionless ...
— Molly McDonald - A Tale of the Old Frontier • Randall Parrish |
