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  • Then her clouded face cleared suddenly with its luminous smile.   (source)
    luminous = shining or beautiful
  • The moon shed its light onto the wilderness as we walked to school. ... It made snow luminous.   (source)
    luminous = glow or shine
  • The stars gave off a special light, more subtle and luminous than moonlight.   (source)
    luminous = shining
  • Most of them slept on deck and talked far into the night or hung over the ship's side watching the luminous dance of the foam thrown up by their bows.   (source)
  • He has the length and leanness and luminous pallor efface that El Greco gave to his saints.   (source)
    luminous = glowing
  • But when her eyes fell of the odd little figure in the stiff, ugly dress, with the long braids of red hair and the eager, luminous eyes, she stopped short in amazement.   (source)
    luminous = shining
  • The mountain was crisp with evergreens, which were luminous set against the browns and grays of shale and limestone.†   (source)
  • LYING AWAKE IN BED that night, I thought of Soraya Taheri's sickle-shaped birthmark, her gently hooked nose, and the way her luminous eyes had fleetingly held mine.†   (source)
  • Me: "It does not taste like God Himself cooked heaven into a series of five dishes which were then served to you accompanied by several luminous balls of fermented, bubbly plasma while actual and literal flower petals floated down all around your canal-side dinner table."†   (source)
  • Her eyes were very luminous, I remember.†   (source)
  • A straight nose; a heart-shaped face; large, luminous, guileless eyes; the eyebrows arched, with a perplexed upwards turning at the inner edges.†   (source)
  • Multicolored mushrooms, poisonous shrubs, and weird luminous plants grew without sunlight.†   (source)
  • Wind: immediate, bright, sweet, briny, luminous.†   (source)
  • The walls had been paneled with varnished pine board in which the knots shone luminously; Susan Marie's curtains were of a clean, smooth yellow, tied off crisply behind careful bows, ruffled, valanced, and undertiered.†   (source)
  • She was no more than forty, with a black ponytail and luminous skin.†   (source)
  • It has a luminous face and lights up if you press a button, so I could read it in the dark.†   (source)
  • High above on the balcony, like a soul tearing free of its corporeal restrains, a luminous pyre of flame erupted from the camerlegno's center.†   (source)
  • The slight builds, the luminous brown eyes.†   (source)
  • Even with the sun high in the sky, it was shadowy along the catwalk, though the outer skin of the ship gave off a luminous moonlight glow, its silver surface reflecting the sun.†   (source)
  • Large, luminous eyes peer at me from behind Kaede.†   (source)
  • The scene by the fountain, its air of ugly threat, and at the end, when both had gone their separate ways, the luminous absence shimmering above the wetness on the gravel—all this would have to be reconsidered.†   (source)
  • The twins watched anxiously and Piggy sat expressionless behind the luminous wall of his myopia.†   (source)
  • She saw the large alarm clock with luminous numbers sitting on the metal shelving.†   (source)
  • She had a delicate, chiseled face, black eyebrows angled like a soaring seagull's wings, a small straight nose and luminous, nutbrown skin.†   (source)
  • Ford and Arthur were in a small luminous pink cubicle.†   (source)
  • Her face lit up; she was so pale, so luminous under the streetlight, that wasn't just an expression.†   (source)
  • At the right altitude, he could almost superimpose the luminous map on his visor over the actual Dublin streets below him.†   (source)
  • SCORPIUS's arms are bound in vicious, luminous cords.†   (source)
  • The days were clear and beautiful; and, as September rolled around, the hateful glare gave way to a certain luminosity, a dusty, golden quality.†   (source)
  • For a moment, wide-eyed and entranced by the beauty of the luminous surfaces surrounding her, she navigated it as well as anyone, zooming through this kaleidoscopic lifeline at pace with Dodge and the others.†   (source)
  • As he followed it, the brightness at the entrance behind him faded and was replaced by a faint luminosity reflecting off the walls from somewhere ahead.†   (source)
  • The luminous white of the railing and steps kept him glancing toward it.†   (source)
  • Sol Weintranb looked up upon introduction and the Consul noted the short gray beard, lined forehead, and sad, luminous eyes of the we!†   (source)
  • Her skin was more luminous than the moon, her eyes wider than the sky, deeper than the water, darker than the night.†   (source)
  • Hatsumomo looked very pleased when she heard this and came walking toward me with a luminous happiness on her face.†   (source)
  • It was one of those big, bright nights of August when the moon has that luminous color of something ready for harvest.†   (source)
  • Because the black is so black the eye is simply dazzled, and then there is the shining that seems to come, really, from moonlight, it is so luminous, but their skin glows even in the sun.†   (source)
  • She was indeed lovely, with luminous blond hair.†   (source)
  • He had seemed white to me before, starkly white, so that in the night he was almost luminous; and now I saw him filled with his own life and own blood: he was radiant, not luminous.†   (source)
  • It was a long, luminous cylinder, as thick around as an index finger and tapering to a point.†   (source)
  • Jane's gaze moved slowly across the luminous faces of the Cullens and then touched on the newborn girl beside the fire; the newborn had her head in her hands again.†   (source)
  • A luminous picture above the coat hooks limned a ghostly Jesus hovering grimly over a family seated at the kitchen table.†   (source)
  • The pocket square is luminous.†   (source)
  • He wanted far more than her body; he wanted control over that undefined and luminous material that lay within her and that escaped him even in those moments when she appeared to be dying of pleasure.†   (source)
  • And then I whirled this homemade slingshot around my head in a kind of luminous buzz saw the first moment I saw a helicopter in the area.†   (source)
  • He had luminous pupils, yellowish beard and hair, and an old scar sewn with baling knots across his stomach.†   (source)
  • I look up and see particles of dust drifting, crystal white and luminous, in the suspension of light.†   (source)
  • My mother told me I must have slept, it was impossible not to sleep in all that time, but if I slept, it was with my eyes wide open, for I had followed the green, luminous course of the second hand and the minute hand and the hour hand of the bedside clock through their circles and semicircles, every night for seven nights, without missing a second, or a minute, or an hour.†   (source)
  • The aircraft became a long, horizontal whisper of darkness lighted only by the green luminosity of the instrument panel.†   (source)
  • The sky is luminously blue, with large woolly clouds.†   (source)
  • Finally, as he ran sliding and scraping down the last few yards, he saw an edge of white surf and the shallow, luminous movement of water over white sand, and, beyond that, a solid, heavy blue.†   (source)
  • Other men in bright yellow Mylex suits and respirator masks moved slowly through the luminous haze, carrying death-measuring instruments.†   (source)
  • The moon is huge and luminous and bounces through all the dazzling white snow, growing brighter.†   (source)
  • Her face had an open, almost mournful expression, and her eyes were a luminous violet.†   (source)
  • It rippled and spread in a vast luminous arch, trailing folded striations of color in its wake.†   (source)
  • His thin hair is so white it is almost luminous against his prairie-darkened face.†   (source)
  • Tears over Time Magazine Zainab Salbi is thin with olive skin and close-cropped black hair framing large, luminous eyes.†   (source)
  • Then, before her eyes, it seemed to swell and turn luminous ....She stood frozen, until she realized it was because the sun had suddenly struck the frosted window and lit up the table.†   (source)
  • Then, with the dog running ahead of him, he moved southward toward the fields, lion-colored now, luminously golden with after-harvest stubble.†   (source)
  • The late-afternoon sunlight leaped lightly from leaf to leaf, slid along branches and down trunks, and dropped Finally to the ground in warm, luminous patches.†   (source)
  • The rain had ripened all the country around and the roadside grass was luminous and green from the run-off and flowers were in bloom across the open country.†   (source)
  • And it broke my heart, that luminous smile on that wasted face.†   (source)
  • A tingle crawled down Eragon's neck as the elf children gazed at him; their large, slanted eyes were slightly luminous in the gloom.†   (source)
  • It was bright and clear, and the luminous silver of a full moon.†   (source)
  • Her color was more auburn, deep and red mixed with browns that made her green eyes seem almost luminous.†   (source)
  • The creatures can see where each star has been and where it is going, so that the heavens are filled with rarefied, luminous spaghetti.†   (source)
  • I swim up through the firesnakes, hot dark whalecocks prowling the luminous green of the mere, and I surface with a gulp among churning waves and smoke.†   (source)
  • He sat all tucked up into himself, his slender shoulders huddled halfway around his head, his suntanned hands with their luminous silver fingernails massaging the backs of his bare, folded arms gently as though he were cold.†   (source)
  • She glanced at her travel alarm, and saw by its luminous dial it was twenty after three.†   (source)
  • To his horror, Max saw several pairs of luminous green eyes looking up at them from below.†   (source)
  • He was a loathsome little creature: he paddled a small boat with his large flat feet, peering with pale luminous eyes and catching blind fish with his long fingers, and eating them raw.†   (source)
  • He himself was now sensing something peculiar—a kind of luminosity—in the air.†   (source)
  • A luminosity emanated from the floor, which faded farther up, to be replaced by the light from the windows.†   (source)
  • In every campaign, however, there recurred the same luminous anchoring image.†   (source)
  • She stood right where she was, staring up at the luminous butterflies.†   (source)
  • I look for a bench somewhere in the luminous haze but there is none.†   (source)
  • Lights began to appear in the girls' dormitories, like the bursting of luminous seeds flung broadside by an invisible hand.†   (source)
  • For one thing, they were larger, and seemed somehow more luminous.†   (source)
  • The moon is large and luminous.†   (source)
  • Her father's eyes had always been unsettling; pale green, almost luminous, flecked with gold.†   (source)
  • Even the greens, her favorite shades of greens, flee the trees and assault her with luminosity.†   (source)
  • Instantly awake, he glanced at the alarm clock's luminous face.†   (source)
  • My orders would for a time have glowed white, and luminously reformed the world.†   (source)
  • Kate turned for some quick repartee, but kept on walking, leaving the professor with her luminous smile to think about.†   (source)
  • She felt, at the same time, a growing respect for the adversary, for a science that was so clean, so strict, so luminously rational.†   (source)
  • The land was luminous.†   (source)
  • He checked the luminous dial of his watch.†   (source)
  • I notice the moonlight on the chain-link fence, the way it turns even the ugliest pattern into a delicate, luminous web.†   (source)
  • He checked his luminous watch.†   (source)
  • He looked at his watch, at the luminous dial aided by the moonlight.†   (source)
  • Now it seemed suddenly luminous and alive.†   (source)
  • In the mirror I see him gazing out at the shops and lots of the boulevard, the rows of bulb and neon stretching west before us like a luminous trail to the island.†   (source)
  • Pull as he might, it remained a luminous rising in the twilit air, like a stairway to nowhere, or the headless incarnation of a jack-in-the-box.†   (source)
  • Natalie pursued her own shadow along a dusty path, Ismail trailing a few paces behind her, his black clothing luminous in the moonlight, a weapon across his chest.†   (source)
  • Panic blossomed in grotesque and lurid forms among the freshmen in the sinking half-light of a luminous and mysterious dusk.†   (source)
  • It is pale and luminous like any sky at this hour of the day.†   (source)
  • Or would it instead, the dance ended, come back down the runway, its luminous stare locked to Oedipa's, smile gone malign and pitiless; bend to her alone among the desolate rows of seats and begin to speak words she never wanted to hear?†   (source)
  • The old thick walls sucked in coat after coat of whitewash made with lime in salt water, which, as it dried, seemed to have a luminosity of its own.†   (source)
  • He paused and his eyes became luminous, distant.†   (source)
  • The luminous trail glowed faintly for a while: then it died away, leaving only the stars.†   (source)
  • The Southern Cross blazed out of a cobalt sky; the sundown wind faded to a whisper; and a pair of marsupial rats, their eyes aglow like luminous peas, hopped hesitantly round the camp site.†   (source)
  • Love touched the hearts of the Brahmans' young daughters when Siddhartha walked through the lanes of the town with the luminous forehead, with the eye of a king, with his slim hips.†   (source)
  • Something subtle and powerful in this luminous darkness suggested a Viist and open landscape and that the station was situated high up.†   (source)
  • "It must be the real truth," says the waitress, sucking in her lower lip, her luminous eyes turning sadly, seeking the windows.†   (source)
  • Black on black, he could not make out its outlinebut two faintly luminous eyes stared unwinkingly back into his.†   (source)
  • "He had," as William S. White has written, "a luminous candor of purpose that was extraordinarily refreshing in a chamber not altogether devoted to candor."†   (source)
  • When the silence returned, he looked at the luminous dial of his wristwatch.†   (source)
  • Her luminous rainbow wings shimmered like the northern lights.†   (source)
  • Then he stood up, stretched, and checked the time on the luminous alarm clock on his bedside table.†   (source)
  • The luminous dome of the U.S. Capitol glowed with solemn power against the dark winter sky.†   (source)
  • Her skin gray, wan, rubbed of its luminous sheen by the neon station light.†   (source)
  • Her limbs were smooth and strong, skin glistening subtly, luminous as a pearl.†   (source)
  • Piggy peered anxiously into the luminous veil that hung between him and the world.†   (source)
  • His eyes were set far apart, with luminous red irises and vertical slits for pupils.†   (source)
  • Especially on a day like today, with our luminous guest.†   (source)
  • They were like the luminous tips of weapons aimed down at her.†   (source)
  • She was beautiful, with a luminous, sugar-white quality that turned heads on the street.†   (source)
  • Her cheekbones looked sharp and angular, her eyes deep-set, mysterious, and a luminous green.†   (source)
  • Beneath was the caption (also luminous): The Unseen Guest.†   (source)
  • There at its entrance was the luminous figure of Pedro waiting for her.†   (source)
  • The baby's eyes were deep and luminous as she looked up at her father.†   (source)
  • She looked up at me, her eyes luminous with the beginning of tears.†   (source)
  • Two days later they descended to the luminous plain where the joyful town of Valledupar was located.†   (source)
  • Carefully, not quite in a hurry but losing no time, he climbs the luminous stairs.†   (source)
  • I thought of her sickle-shaped birthmark, the elegant curve of her neck, her luminous eyes.†   (source)
  • The vampire stood looking down at him, and his white skin became a soft luminous pink.†   (source)
  • From afar, the smoke appears strangely solid, as though carved from luminous wood.†   (source)
  • Surely Pedro had died at the moment of ecstasy when he entered the luminous tunnel.†   (source)
  • Her skin had just a faint luminosity, subtle and mysterious.†   (source)
  • His hand was a shadow against the luminous dials as he tripped the remote door control.†   (source)
  • Far below his armpit he saw the luminous flowering round the rock.†   (source)
  • In the sudden blackness, Jessica saw a luminous arrow on the floor ahead of her.†   (source)
  • Max scowled at the imp's luminous cat's eyes.†   (source)
  • He leaned over me, and his luminous eyes held mine.†   (source)
  • Lord Tywin's eyes were a pale green flecked with gold, as luminous as they were merciless.†   (source)
  • Her voice was a warm, luminous, timeless melody.†   (source)
  • And Hazel saw herself in a vast cavern filled with strands of light like a luminous web.†   (source)
  • Jocelyn's green eyes were tired, but luminous and wide.†   (source)
  • In the moonlight, her skin was pearly, her eyes darkly luminous.†   (source)
  • Her gaze, a luminous blue, was fixed on Jace.†   (source)
  • She looked up at him with luminous eyes.†   (source)
  • His gold eyes were luminous in the dark.†   (source)
  • Reyna eyed the balconies, half expecting luminous shapes to flicker at the railing.†   (source)
  • Even from a distance, her face was luminous.†   (source)
  • The clouds both near and far were milky and seemed almost luminous, as if lit from within.†   (source)
  • My mom turned to me, her smile luminous: This is where I am, Magnus.†   (source)
  • Just now his clear brown eyes were luminous with feeling.†   (source)
  • They floated above her, each rune expanding into a luminous white symbol as big as a poster board.†   (source)
  • The sun shimmered through them, making intermittent swirls of blue luminous as opals.†   (source)
  • I want objects that breathe out light; a luminous flatness.†   (source)
  • Danny nodded, his eyes glowing, luminous.†   (source)
  • The metropolis glowed, a luminous fungus festering along the coast.†   (source)
  • Almost everything about the Demon was white and gold and luminous.†   (source)
  • From the cattle boat these lines had looked like luminous golden cables braided across the fields.†   (source)
  • He looked at her with a smile that had the luminous sincerity of innocence and pain.†   (source)
  • Clary held it up now, a luminous chunk of silver, smeared where her bloody hands had touched it.†   (source)
  • Out from the water a long sinuous tentacle had crawled; it was pale-green and luminous and wet.†   (source)
  • The woman on the bed had large eyes, darkly luminous in her face.†   (source)
  • All round him was the quiet summer night, luminous with starlight but paling to dawn on one side.†   (source)
  • His skin was so pale it looked as if it could be made up of luminous crystals.†   (source)
  • Luminous yellow eyes blinked as it stirred from sleep.†   (source)
  • His face was unreadable, luminously white in the dark.†   (source)
  • Her skin was as luminous white as the fields of algae.†   (source)
  • A frail luminous glow pushed out between the edges of horizon and clouds.†   (source)
  • Stars shone in the black sky; a low luminous moon chased them across the landscape.†   (source)
  • You're a kind girl," said Mr. Sikes, turning his luminous eyes on Cynthia.†   (source)
  • There was the same sardonic, genderless beauty stamped upon his luminous white face.†   (source)
  • Moonflowers, white and faintly luminous, climbed the hillside.†   (source)
  • He thought of the luminous Chardonnay in the three glasses on the counter in the Delmanns' kitchen.†   (source)
  • There it is, bright red, rounded, with a dark light around it, a blackness like luminous velvet.†   (source)
  • Soft white luminous patches, like schools of jellyfish, floated before Jason's eyes.†   (source)
  • His eyes were large and luminous in the darkness, his smile slow.†   (source)
  • The little white, peaked face, like a new moon, grew strangely luminous in its pallor.†   (source)
  • Its glowering eyes were luminous and yellow.†   (source)
  • Cooper glanced up at the luminous clouds that raced across the black night.†   (source)
  • Camille leaned toward him, her green eyes luminous.†   (source)
  • Alex's skin had assumed a deathly pallor, and his eyes were faintly luminous.†   (source)
  • A soft evening light shone over them from the stars and the luminous double moons of Mars.†   (source)
  • The whole ceiling is luminous, and as far as I can tell the air comes through the speaker grille.†   (source)
  • The silo was dark, its silhouette distinct and imposing against the luminous gray of twilight.†   (source)
  • Then, luminous with sweat, they gnashed at their last sandwiches.†   (source)
  • Luminous of course but hidden from them, Moon Lake streamed out in the night.†   (source)
  • Vague, luminous, smiling, her big white face held a moment and bent down for its kiss.†   (source)
  • The luminous ranges of all the clouds stretched one beyond the other in heavenly order.†   (source)
  • At the same time he found the bonfire a beautiful sight — luminous, like a Christmas tree, but a Christmas tree on fire.†   (source)
  • As long as no declarations are made, no harm will be done; and he enjoys being gazed at by eyes as luminous as hers.†   (source)
  • For one wild moment Harry thought they were S.P.E.W. badges — then he saw that they all bore the same message, in luminous red letters that burnt brightly in the dimly lit underground passage: SUPPORT CEDRIC DIGGORYTHE REAL HOGWARTS CHAMPION!†   (source)
  • They were leaning now against the wooden railing, sharing a cigarette, looking up at the sky, which was luminous and clear but for a few frayed clouds.†   (source)
  • He didn't answer; he just started dancing again, spinning me the opposite way we'd been headed before, away from the lights and then into the deep swath of night that ringed the luminous dance floor.†   (source)
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