768 examples of radiance in sentences

Dim radiance flooded the landing, from the street door.

As he looked, Ernest could hardly believe but that a smile beamed over the whole visage, with a radiance still brightening, although without motion of the lips.

Thus, the Sergeant as he marched to and fro, was suddenly aware of one who stood in the full radiance of the moon,and with one hand outstretched towards him.

Piero Salin stood in the doorway as he glanced up from the drawings that littered his tablethe dark oak table which had seemed a centre of cheer to Girolamo, when, in this very chamber, his child had made a radiance for him in which the lines of his life shone large and satisfying.

" She certainly had the power of retaining the conquests she had won,which rarely happens except with those who are gifted with intellectual radiance and freshness.

The moon rose bright and glorious and bathed the picturesque country in soft radiance.

The eyes now flashed blue flame, and Bennington for the first time noticed what had escaped him beforethat the forehead was broad and thoughtful, and that above it the hair, instead of being blonde and curly and sparkling with golden radiance, was of a peculiar wavy brown that seemed sometimes full of light and sometimes lustreless and black,

Of course, her face changed, but the change was one of which she was probably unconscious, and which she couldn't have reproduced to her mirror; it was not a play of features, but a play of lights and shadows and nerves, a flow or an ebb of radiance in the eyes, a subtle sensitiveness of the lips and nerves; and her effect was mainly produced by her voice, over which she wielded indescribable powers of modulation.

He is the moon of English music and his melodies are as exquisite and as silvery and as full of enamoured radiance as the tintinnabulations of the moonbeams themselves.

The wind blows from the north, and it is cold, and the Marmora gray; it blows from the south, and all at once the world is warm and sea and sky are blueso soft, so blue, so alive with lifting radiance that one does not wonder the Turk is content with a cup of coffee and a view.

It can only blaze like lightning against the thunder-cloud, or like the sun's radiance after storm.

He was, in fact, writing for citizens much like the English of twenty years ago, when the interest of readers, protected from the harsh realities of danger and anxiety, was flattered equally by bloodthirsty slaughters, the shimmer of veiled radiance, and haunted byways for access to the unknown gods.

And as he gazes, he recognises with joy in his heart that the stars themselves, with all their recurrent comets and flaming meteors and immovable constellations, hardly cast a stain upon the white radiance of eternity, under which he has been striving and crying and perpetrating comparatively trifling deviations from exactness.

There was something celestial, almost diaphanous, in the hundreds of figures turbaned and draped in white, marching slowly through the hot colorless radiance over the hot colorless sand.

A misty radiance washes the tall houses, the garden-walls, the archways, even the moonlight does not whiten Fez, but only turns its gray to tarnished silver.

About six months before this census-taking era, the old man had stepped into Miss Manners's kitchen with an unusual radiance on his wrinkles and in his eyes, and began without his usual morning greeting, "I've got so'thin' for you naow, Miss Lucindy.

And the sheet lightning began to play over them with a continuous flow of silvery radiance, north answering south, and east giving back to west the reflected glory of the mighty electric fluid.

Very dark grey, indeedalmost black some of themmiddling grey, light grey, and here and there a figure that shines with a pure white radiance.

It was a quick, involuntary smile, which seemed to escape from the firm lips and half-averted eyes, flashed over the face, touched the cold features with strange radiance, and then was gone,and, in its place, the old shadow of reserve and distrust, for the moment, darker than ever.

He decided that it was not beauty, in the strictest sense of the word, but a sort of radiance which emanated from her like an aura.

Hail to thee, fountain of eternal light, Streaming with dewy radiance in the sky!

And when they came down to where DeBar and Aldous and Donald MacDonald were testing the richness of the black sand along the stream there was a light in Marie's eyes and a radiance in Joanne's face which told again that world-old story of a Mary Magdalene and the dawn of another Day.

Then, after a moment's thought, and with sudden radiance: "But a man as big as you are wouldn't be let stay in the valley, no matter how hard he tried.

The purple hills curved down on each side in the exact shape of an amethyst punch-bowl, and the radiance of colouring fairly blinded us.

In the soft radiance a riderless horse stood at the hitching-rail, his big eyes glowing, his ears pricked forward.

768 examples of  radiance  in sentences