While I leaned over the rail engrossed in these thoughts, one of the black thunder clouds that had been gathering and dissipating over the island during the entire afternoon suddenly glowed overhead with a strange white incandescence startlingly akin to Darrow's so-called "devil fires.

Whether his eyes were actually shooting forth flame, I couldn't tell you, but there appeared to me to be a distinct incandescence.

of the guns never ceased, and the shells continued to mount, curve, and fall, streaking the night with golden incandescence.

A radiant incandescence of great power lit the arch and flooded it with light that poured through the cathedral windows of the Most High.

Exactly what causes the racial elements of a nation, with all their varying properties, to flash suddenly (as it seems) into the splendid incandescence of an Heroic Age, and thence to shift again into a comparatively rigid and perhaps comparatively lustreless civilizationthis difficult matter has been very nicely investigated of late, and to interesting, though not decided, result.

As the young giant rose a little black figure became visible to him against that western incandescence on the top of the embankment that towered above the summit of the down.