coruscation

Example Sentences

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Nor is there now any blinding coruscation of genius.

From Time Magazine Archive

They seemed to speak together as if in some scene or passage of celestial drama, nor did I know which was the diviner speech, the moon's unwavering effulgence or that leaping coruscation of the stars.

From Apologia Diffidentis by Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock)

Soon another coruscation had appeared on the left in the direction of Montmartre; then another had burst into view on the right behind the Invalides, and still another, more distant near the Pantheon.

From A Love Episode by Zola, Émile

A second flash lighted the cleft with its dazzling coruscation.

From Into the Primitive by Bennett, Robert Ames

Gleams of lightning at intervals flashed over the sward; or, in fitful coruscation, illumined the deep arcades of the forest—the beeches, for a moment, appearing burnished by the blaze.

From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne