The lambent flame of the candle lit the room dimly. From LearnThat.org.
Adjective : lambent tongues of flame. ,lambent wit. ,a lambent light. From Dictionary.com.
When he shot the sun at noon, the glow of achievement wrapped him in lambent flame. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
They have a taste of native earth, beautifully rarefied: to change the metaphor, they illuminate the page with a kind of lambent common sense. From Wordnik.com. [From a Cornish Window A New Edition] Reference
But when with lambent tongues they neared the cot. From Wordnik.com. [Theocritus, translated into English Verse] Reference
He 'was a "lambent flame along the ground" if you like. From Wordnik.com. [Acton's Feud A Public School Story] Reference
The air in lambent beauty, when the darkened storm is gone. From Wordnik.com. [The Liberty Minstrel] Reference
Wondership staggered and then seemed to leap into lambent flame. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone] Reference
As a lambent dusk turns gold, anguished cries go up all over town. From Wordnik.com. [The Info-Warriors] Reference
Spirits of right Nantes brandy, for lambent flames and apparitions. From Wordnik.com. [The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899] Reference
At midnight, lambent, lurid flames light up the sky with fiercest beams. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference
Olivia spoke with intense feeling, her eyes lambent and her lips quivering. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
Far away the orange ray of a lighthouse began to quiver in the lambent dusk. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference
This time he might return, immaculate, from the path of that "lambent flamelet.". From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
The letters blazed with a soft lambent flame, and he fell reverently upon his knees. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864] Reference
And looking up at him with silver-grey eyes of such a lambent purity, like melted jewels. From Wordnik.com. [The Thorn Birds]
Here the bodies of the blessed are clothed with a pure and lambent light, as with a garment. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Low and mocking, a laugh broke from Apleon, upon whose brow there still played that lambent flame. From Wordnik.com. [The Mark of the Beast] Reference
Faint glints of lambent light pricked out the edge of the pool as Cadfael turned back to Compline. From Wordnik.com. [Brother Cadfael's Penance]
Dark festoons of clouds hang over the city, lambent lightning plays along the heavens in the south. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
Milton; -- we may say that images at once lambent and laughable were those which were natural to Hood. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860] Reference
In the sharply angled gray lines against the lambent sky I can read reports of my own inevitable passing. From Wordnik.com. [A New Roof On An Old House] Reference
A lambent red flame lighting up the hair of a man's head, while at the same moment his beard is blue and luminous. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Her head was swathed mountainously in shawls; her wild, black, lambent eyes had the look of distant contemplation. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
Inside, a fireplace with lambent flames licking at glowing coals kept the small, somewhat circular anteroom quite warm. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
He saw the brindled, scraggly cat huddling behind the thorns of the overgrown rosebush, watching the food with lambent eyes. From Wordnik.com. [What Dreams May Come]
Sheila was getting near to the region of beautiful sunsets and lambent twilights and the constant movement and mystery of the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference
Stone Mountain, which rose in aged, rugged grandeur, softened in this hour by the veils of haze, warmed with the lambent hues of sunset. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
'For me?' asked Bill, her lambent eyes regarding him as if no thought of greed or bribery could touch the angel's soul which shone through them. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
We were joined by the gipsy, a bold tall man with very black and lambent eyes, hiccoughing with drink but not by any means drunken, who took out. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
The golden gilt of imagination decorated his phrases and the lambent light of his philosophy shone like the rosy dawn upon a field of variegated wild flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference
He thought how lovely she was as she looked up at him, her lashes curving back from her lambent eyes, the soft curls of her hair ruffling back from her warm forehead. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
He could not see her now that his lantern was concealed, but he looked up and fancied her eyes were shining more lambent than his own lantern that smelled unpleasantly. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
From the tip of each of her long taper fingers issued a lambent flame of such surpassing brilliancy as would have plunged a whole gas company into despair -- it was a 'Hand of. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference
Its jaws were distended, its forked tongue played around its open mouth, flashing in the sunlight like a small lambent flame, while its eyes were intently fixed upon the bird. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Edition of Touching Incidents : and Remarkable Answers to Prayer] Reference
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