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  • People used candles to do this before they had incandescent lighting.†   (source)
  • The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment in the incandescence like the shape of a flower, a molten rose.†   (source)
  • She looked up at him, incandescent with rage, the magazine shaking in her stubby fingers.†   (source)
  • I pushed Tyrone's truck into the sinkhole, and when my mother found out, she was incandescent with rage.†   (source)
  • The passion with which Pedro had torn away her clothes, causing the flesh beneath her skin to burn beneath the touch of those incandescent hands.†   (source)
  • Also, I never previously knew that if you mix a lot of pee with a little Bluefin energy drink, the result is this amazing incandescent turquoise color.†   (source)
  • Deadening incandescence of the boarding terminals.†   (source)
  • This idiotic and humiliating requirement made Henryk and me incandescent with rage.†   (source)
  • He lay perfectly still in the grass, his shirt open over his sculpted, incandescent chest, his scintillating arms bare.†   (source)
  • Sophie opened her mouth and screamed, her aura blazing with silver incandescence.†   (source)
  • Edison suggested the exposition use incandescent bulbs rather than arc lights, because the incandescent variety produced a softer light.†   (source)
  • Incandescence is caused by heat, and it occurs at a specific temperature.†   (source)
  • His gray eyes burned with an incandescence, and the long white hands which hung by his sides were not those of a human being.†   (source)
  • We were supposed to study incandescent lamps, but he spent the period telling us about commemorative stamps.†   (source)
  • A spark jumped between them, and Eragon went rigid as incandescent heat poured through his body, consuming his insides.†   (source)
  • He opened his eyes with a shudder of curiosity, expecting to meet the incandescent trajectory of the bullets, but he only saw Captain Roque Carnicero with his arms in the air and Jose Arcadio crossing the street with his fearsome shotgun ready to go off.†   (source)
  • She thought of the Angel, and how he had burned like a thousand torches, and that face had in him some of that same incandescent blood, and how that burning shone through him now, through his eyes, like light through the cracks in a door.†   (source)
  • Beyond the window, the sky was filled with moonlit clouds and it glowed with an eerie incandescence.†   (source)
  • Work always put the old man in a sort of incandescent fury, and now as Bob spoke to him, he raised an inflamed face, from which the small eyes twinkled redly, with a grunt of inquiry.†   (source)
  • They carried an afterglow of sixties incandescence, a readiness to give themselves compulsively to something.†   (source)
  • She was a tall, strapping girl with long hair and incandescent blue veins converging populously beneath her cocoa-colored skin where the flesh was most tender, and she kept cursing and shrieking and jumping high up into the air on her bare feet to keep right on hitting him on the top of his head with the spiked heel of her shoe.†   (source)
  • At that moment, overcome with the tender brutality of physical existence—with "the insoluble contradiction of being animals cursed with self-reflection, and moral beings cursed with animal instincts"—Jacob launches into a lament, a single, ecstatic paragraph, unbroken over five pages, that Time magazine called one of the most "incandescent, haunting passages" in contemporary literature.†   (source)
  • Her hand, incandescent and tiny, points to the near wall of the cave, where a large rock sits just at the base.†   (source)
  • Now, as Cooper ran, Max saw that every footfall left behind a pool of incandescent flames; the path behind them was soon a blazing minefield that not only stung their pursuers' eyes, but also stuck to their flesh and burned like Greek fire.†   (source)
  • The fire burned its steady, slow flame, and phantoms danced in its incandescent core.†   (source)
  • The incandescence of her soft brown eyes drew him in like land lures a long adrift sailor.†   (source)
  • Sure, close enough and a steelcased rock is incandescent gas a microsecond later.†   (source)
  • The houses, the still clouds above, everything seemed to be incandescent with blue light.†   (source)
  • Incandescent drizzle sizzled to the floor.†   (source)
  • They were incandescent lines of fire burning into the refractory nickel iron, portions of which went bright white at the very touch of the petawatt beams.†   (source)
  • Incandescent lighting flickered on, blinding me.†   (source)
  • The city was entirely dark at night, the stars were incandescent.†   (source)
  • But I did seem to be aware, during the time of the telling of her story, while the smoke churned up over the nearby roofs and the fire erupted at last toward the sky in fierce incandescence, that those words which had commenced in pious Presbyterian entreaty became finally meaningless.†   (source)
  • Opening the stove door, he poked the fire; he pushed the logs that were ablaze and had turned into pure heat to the back and brought forward into the draft those that were less incandescent.†   (source)
  • It was with an almost incandescent delight that he felt the unguessed temperature and weight of the key.†   (source)
  • what, with such incandescence, he tried to tell her on these Saturday afternoons.†   (source)
  • JACQUES: I want a fountain of light, incandescent water, fire of ice, snows of fire.†   (source)
  • That text was written with an incandescent lacquer or something.†   (source)
  • Fire echoed between the now incandescent orchard and the cracked stone pedestal of the barn.†   (source)
  • The shapes of the small tree-limbs burning incandescent orange in the coals.†   (source)
  • On the side of the golden capstone, an incandescent message was glowing.†   (source)
  • Different substances incandesce at different temperatures.†   (source)
  • The incandescent stone pulsed like living flesh as breaths of air wafted over its surface.†   (source)
  • Sebastian wasn't smiling, but he looked—incandescent.†   (source)
  • There was an incandescent flash and a crack of thunder so piercing it shattered Maggie's windows.†   (source)
  • The surface of the red-hot steel glittered with incandescent motes.†   (source)
  • The demon towers of Alicante blazed into sudden incandescent life.†   (source)
  • The grass is incandescent, it has a heat and sheen.†   (source)
  • He jumped and stabbed in a fevered frenzy, Fighting the shadows massed before him...The siege on Eragon's mind abated as Saphira and the red dragon crashed together, two incandescent meteors colliding head-on.†   (source)
  • From railings in front of the boxes hung triangles of silk embroidered with gold arabesques, all glowing with the light of adjacent incandescent bulbs.†   (source)
  • It was as if the machine guns had been loaded with caps, because their panting rattle could be heard and their incandescent spitting could be seen, but not the slightest reaction was perceived, not a cry, not even a sigh among the compact crowd that seemed petrified by an instantaneous invulnerability.†   (source)
  • The sight of Laura's light-yellow hand, creeping towards Alex across the grass like an incandescent crab, gave me a chill down the back of my spine.†   (source)
  • Sometimes the light was very strong, and the incandescent white square cast against the ground glowed so brightly that the torches in the Great Hall paled in comparison.†   (source)
  • I had the urge to reach for him, to shake him violently so that his still face would move, admit to this soft singing; and suddenly I found him pressed against me, his arm around my chest, his lashes so close I could see them matted and gleaming above the incandescent orb of his eye, his soft, tasteless breath against my skin.†   (source)
  • Exhibitors gradually completed their installations, and electricians removed the last misconnects from the elaborate circuits that linked the fair's nearly 200,000 incandescent bulbs.†   (source)
  • As Edgar mounted the porch steps, Claude lifted his cigarette to his mouth and drew on it and pointed its incandescent tip toward the field.†   (source)
  • For those who are actually in it there are many colours, excessive colours, too bright, too red and orange, too liquid and incandescent, but for the others the war is like a newsreel — grainy, smeared, with bursts of staccato noise and large numbers of grey-skinned people rushing or plodding or falling down, everything elsewhere.†   (source)
  • Every house has scores of incandescent bulbs powered by alternating current, both of which first proved themselves worthy of large-scale use at the fair; and nearly every town of any size has its little bit of ancient Rome, some beloved and be-columned bank, library or post office.†   (source)
  • Incandescent temperature indicator!†   (source)
  • For example, when steel manufacturers temper beams, they spray a grid on them with a transparent coating that incandesces at a specific target temperature so they know when the beams are done.†   (source)
  • Incandesce.†   (source)
  • But for the incandescent flashes, it might have been a forest fire, a haze of flames and smoke that stretched all along the horizon.†   (source)
  • And afterward, when she had brought him back, he had crawled to her and looked down at her with those eyes that burned like the Sword, like the incandescent blood of an angel.†   (source)
  • Wiping his brow, Eragon helped as she shoveled the incandescent coals out of the smelter and into a barrel filled with water.†   (source)
  • He'd never tried to do such a thing underwater and wasn't certain that it would work, but sure enough the eerie blue flames kindled from his fingers, a swirling, incandescent blaze that sent bubbles hissing up toward the surface.†   (source)
  • The heat of the fire could not harm them-Eragon's wards prevented that-but the torrent of incandescent flames was still blinding.†   (source)
  • And when Clyde spotted the bug, the poky little Volkswagen with its incandescent doodles and whorls, he decided to say nothing to Edgar.†   (source)
  • She heard the yammer of police cars pulsing in stalled traffic and saw a hundred subway riders come up out of the tunnels accompanied by workers in incandescent vests and she watched the tourists snapping pictures and thought of the trip she'd made to Rome many years ago, for study and spiritual renewal, and she'd swayed beneath the great domes and prowled the catacombs and church basements and this is what she thought as the riders came up to the street, how she'd stood in a subterranean chapel in†   (source)
  • Entwined, they stared-orphan-like themselves-past Easter's cot and through the tent opening as down a long telescope turned on an incandescent star, and saw the spiral of Elberta's hat return, and saw Exum jump over a stick and on the other side do a little dance in a puff of dust.†   (source)
  • It was unexplainable and alarming, this incandescent sexual excitement she felt everywhere inside herself.†   (source)
  • This happened in the fall of the year when the leaves were fiercely incandescent, a few months after their first meeting in the Brooklyn College library.†   (source)
  • What I was aware of, as my wild laughter sprang forth, was that it was a species of genius—and this was something I would wait another twenty years to witness, in the incandescent figuration of Lenny Bruce.†   (source)
  • And slowly she rose erect and proceeded to climb the last steps upward, into the lower vestibule where the framed photographs of Goebbels and Himmler were the only adornments on the wall, and upward further to the attic door, ajar, with the brotherhood's holy motto engraved on the lintel: My Honor Is My Loyalty—beyond which Hoss in his eyrie waited beneath the image of his lord and savior, waited in that celibate retreat of a calcimine purity so immaculate that even as Sophie approached, unsteadily, the very walls, it seemed, in the resplendent autumn morning were washed by a blindingly incandescent, almost sacramental light.†   (source)
  • "Sevenfold," she whispered—and was abruptly cut off as a blinding incandescence lit up the night.†   (source)
  • Star upon star, red, blue, yellow, and white, swirling nebulae, galaxy upon galaxy: the universe, in its incandescence and darkness.†   (source)
  • The old Agent roared and a brilliant blue incandescence writhed about him, sending the children scattering away.†   (source)
  • In the angled windowpane she saw the reflection of her pale face beneath the checkered scarf, below this the blue and white stripes of her coarse prisoner's smock; blinking, weeping, gazing straight through her own diaphanous image, she glimpsed the magical white horse again, grazing now, the meadow, the sheep beyond, and further still, as if at the very edge of the world, the rim of the drab gray autumnal woods, transmuted by the music's incandescence into a towering frieze of withering but majestic foliage, implausibly beautiful, aglow with some immanent grace.†   (source)
  • Clearly her mind has by no means 'consumed all impediments and become incandescent'.†   (source)
  • Now my body thaws; I am unsealed, I am incandescent.†   (source)
  • If ever a mind was incandescent, unimpeded, I thought, turning again to the bookcase, it was Shakespeare's mind.†   (source)
  • There he was, with the papers about his feet and one arm up, the coat sleeve jammed elbow high, face red as a bruised beet and the sweat sluicing, hair over his forehead, eyes bugged out and shining, drunk as a hoot owl, and behind him the bunting, red-white-and-blue, and over him God's bright, brassy, incandescent sky.†   (source)
  • imagine, I say, the prey and prize, the ten plump defenceless sutlers' wagons, the scarecrows tumbling out box after beautiful box after beautiful box stencilled each with that U. and that S. which for four years now has been to us the symbol of the spoils which belong to the vanquished, of the loaves and the fishes as was once the incandescent Brow, the shining nimbus of the Thorny Crown; and the scarecrows clawing at the boxes with stones and bayonets and even with bare hands and opening them at last and finding—What?†   (source)
  • tumble of Norman giants—who were most conveniently dealt with by cutting off their legs first, so that you could get a fair reach at their heads—and by the flicker of swords round helmets or elbow-cops, a nickering which, in extreme cases, was attended by such a shower of sparks as to make the struggling knights seem perfectly incandescent Wherever you went, during the first years, every vista had been terminated by a marching column of mercenaries, robbing and piling from the Marches—or by a knight of the new order exchanging buffets with a conservative baron whom he was trying to restrain from murdering serfs—or by a golden-haired maiden being rescued out of some lofty keep b†   (source)
  • You have dinner, and it's soft nerveless green night with quiet gas mantles in the street going on incandescent and making a long throbbing scratch in the utter night.†   (source)
  • The incandescent marquees and signs of the first-run movie houses light his face from across the alley.†   (source)
  • For three mornings he accompanied the retiring carrier, gathering his mind to focal intensity while he tried to memorize each stereotyped movement of the delivery, tracing again and again the labyrinthine web of Niggertown, wreaking his plan out among the sprawled chaos of clay and slime, making incandescent those houses to which a paper was delivered, and forgetting the others.†   (source)
  • Then the old man broke off a piece of chocolate and placed it between the expectant lips, and peered into George's face while taste buds, no doubt, glowed incandescent in the inner dark and glands with a tired, sweet, happy sigh released their juices, and George's face took on an expression of slow, deep, inward, germinal bliss, like that of a saint.†   (source)
  • He meant, perhaps, that the androgynous mind is resonant and porous; that it transmits emotion without impediment; that it is naturally creative, incandescent and undivided.†   (source)
  • And this susceptibility of theirs is doubly unfortunate, I thought, returning again to my original enquiry into what state of mind is most propitious for creative work, because the mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent, like Shakespeare's mind, I conjectured, looking at the book which lay open at ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.†   (source)
  • At Broadway and Thirty-ninth Street was blazing, in incandescent fire, Carrie's name.†   (source)
  • Here gush the sparkles incandescent
    Like scattered showers of golden sand;—
    But, see!†   (source)
  • His fire was waiting incandescent, his steam was at high pressure, in a few seconds he could make the long strap move at an invisible velocity.†   (source)
  • The fire burned brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed and passed in our glasses.†   (source)
  • I had a rapid vision of Jim perched on a shadowless rock, up to his knees in guano, with the screams of sea-birds in his ears, the incandescent ball of the sun above his head; the empty sky and the empty ocean all a-quiver, simmering together in the heat as far as the eye could reach.†   (source)
  • She liked the plain benches, the portable stage under its red marquee, the great tent over all, shadowy above strings of incandescent bulbs at night and by day casting an amber radiance on the patient crowd.†   (source)
  • Like Rector's, it was also ornamented with a blaze of incandescent lights, held in handsome chandeliers.†   (source)
  • He went on staring at the incandescent clarity of his white room, as if gazing into the distance beyond.†   (source)
  • When I saw any external object, my consciousness that I was seeing it would remain between me and it, enclosing it in a slender, incorporeal outline which prevented me from ever coming directly in contact with the material form; for it would volatilise itself in some way before I could touch it, just as an incandescent body which is moved towards something wet never actually touches moisture, since it is always preceded, itself, by a zone of evaporation.†   (source)
  • As Mars approached opposition, Lavelle of Java set the wires of the astronomical exchange palpitating with the amazing intelligence of a huge outbreak of incandescent gas upon the planet.†   (source)
  • Blackwater, flat and breathless town of tin-roofed plaster houses and incandescent bone-white roads, of salmon-red hibiscus and balconied stores whose dark depths open without barrier from the stifling streets, has the harbor to one side and a swamp to the other.†   (source)
  • On the instant she was on her feet and had turned on the one incandescent globe which dangled from the center of the room.†   (source)
  • Incandescent rainbows shone above it, blue, red, and golden lights played about it; but the stream itself was white, ineffable.†   (source)
  • Dense black smoke was leaping up to mingle with the steam from the river, and as the Heat-Ray went to and fro over Weybridge its impact was marked by flashes of incandescent white, that gave place at once to a smoky dance of lurid flames.†   (source)
  • Here, by the help of four long rows of incandescent lamps, he discerned row after row of porcelain tubs or troughs, lengthwise of the room, and end to end, which reached from one exterior wall to the other.†   (source)
  • It was a place rather dingily lighted, the darkest portions having incandescent lights, filled with machines and work benches.†   (source)
  • It was bright and commodious, with a beveled mirror set in the wall at one end and incandescent lights arranged in three places.†   (source)
  • But now these hard, white-painted walls brightly lighted by wide unobstructed skylights by day and as he could see—by incandescent lamps in the hall without at night—yet all so different from Bridgeburg,—so much more bright or harsh illuminatively.†   (source)
  • On the ceilings were colored traceries with more gilt, leading to a center where spread a cluster of lights-incandescent globes mingled with glittering prisms and stucco tendrils of gilt.†   (source)
  • Incandescent lights, the reflection of their glow in polished glasses, and the shine of gilt upon the walls, combined into one tone of light which it requires minutes of complacent observation to separate and take particular note of.†   (source)
  • "Can you picture," I asked them, "what this funnel must have been like when it was filled with boiling lava, and the level of that incandescent liquid rose right to the mountain's mouth, like cast iron up the insides of a furnace?"†   (source)
  • Ceaseless fiery arrows dart in and out amongst the flying thunder-clouds; the vaporous mass soon glows with incandescent heat; hailstones rattle fiercely down, and as they dash upon our iron tools they too emit gleams and flashes of lurid light.†   (source)
  • Therefore, all the substances that compose the body of this earth must exist there in a state of incandescent gas; for the metals that most resist the action of heat, gold, and platinum, and the hardest rocks, can never be either solid or liquid under such a temperature.†   (source)
  • Because animal life existed upon the earth only in the secondary period, when a sediment of soil had been deposited by the rivers, and taken the place of the incandescent rocks of the primitive period.†   (source)
  • He had the most extraordinary love of incandescence.†   (source)
  • This colour, this incandescence, was in Stella's whole body.†   (source)
  • The molten stone poured out in a stream of dazzling incandescence across the road, the asbestos rollers came and went; at the tail of an insulated watering cart the steam rose in white clouds.†   (source)
  • Then, like a dozen piled-up Jungfraus seen from Mürren, it flamed into superb and dazzling incandescence.†   (source)
  • Gradually the fibres of the burning bonfire were fused into one haze, one incandescence which lifted the weight of the woollen grey sky on top of it and turned it to a million atoms of soft blue.†   (source)
  • And in the incandescence of the pearl the pictures formed of the things Kino's mind had considered in the past and had given up as impossible.†   (source)
  • Flood-lighted, its three hundred and twenty metres of white Carrara-surrogate gleamed with a snowy incandescence over Ludgate Hill; at each of the four corners of its helicopter platform an immense T shone crimson against the night, and from the mouths of twenty-four vast golden trumpets rumbled a solemn synthetic music.†   (source)
  • He saw himself, grown to the age of potency, a strong, heroic, brilliant boy, the one spot of incandescence in a backwoods school attended by snag-toothed children and hair-faced louts.†   (source)
  • This chosen incandescence, to whom a name had already been given, and from whose centre most of the events in this chronicle must be seen, was borne in, as we have said, upon the very spear-head of history.†   (source)
  • The darkness of the broad hallway was soothing after the prairie heat and incandescence.†   (source)
  • Therefore the dusky, golden softness of this man's sensuous flame of life, that flowed off his flesh like the flame from a candle, not baffled and gripped into incandescence by thought and spirit as her life was, seemed to her something wonderful, beyond her.†   (source)
  • In a moment, a moment, surely— And then, although Clyde did not know or notice at the moment—a sudden dimming of the lights in this room—as well as over the prison—an idiotic or thoughtless result of having one electric system to supply the death voltage and the incandescence of this and all other rooms.†   (source)
  • "Lights," commanded Master Freddie; and the butler pressed a button, and a flood of brilliant incandescence streamed from above, half-blinding Jurgis.†   (source)
  • Flames need oxygen from the air and are unable to spread underwater; but a lava flow, which contains in itself the principle of its incandescence, can rise to a white heat, overpower the liquid element, and turn it into steam on contact.†   (source)
  • Such was the succession of phenomena which produced Iceland, all arising from the action of internal fire; and to suppose that the mass within did not still exist in a state of liquid incandescence was absurd; and nothing could surpass the absurdity of fancying that it was possible to reach the earth's centre.†   (source)
  • Other eyewitnesses depose that they observed an incandescent object of enormous proportions hurtling through the atmosphere at a terrifying velocity in a trajectory directed southwest by west.†   (source)
  • the feast of S. Lawrence (martyr, lo August): the monthly recurrence known as the new moon with the old moon in her arms: the posited influence of celestial on human bodies: the appearance of a star (1st magnitude) of exceeding brilliancy dominating by night and day (a new luminous sun generated by the collision and amalgamation in incandescence of two nonluminous exsuns) about the period of the birth of William Shakespeare over delta in the recumbent neversetting constellation of Cassiopeia and of a star (2nd magnitude) of similar origin but of lesser brilliancy which had appeared in and disappeared from the constellation of the Corona Septentrionalis about the period of the birth o†   (source)
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