coruscation

Example Sentences

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Nor is there now any blinding coruscation of genius.

From Time Magazine Archive

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)

It glittered, the size of a shield, and a light coruscation seemed emanating from its edges.

From The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars by Gratacap, L. P.

But the lady took it as a coruscation of rustic wit, and laughed.

From The Revellers by Tracy, Louis

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.

From The Vicar of Wrexhill by Trollope, Mrs