coruscation

Example Sentences

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Nor is there now any blinding coruscation of genius.

From Time Magazine Archive

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?

From The Banquet (Il Convito) by Sayer, Elizabeth Price

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.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)

"Indeed I do!" he said, with another slighter coruscation.

From Daisy by Warner, Susan

As the party retreated, not two, but ten fires were seen gleaming among the trees, filling the forest with their bright coruscation.

From Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops by Reid, Mayne