coruscating

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"But what if there isn't any coruscating -- that's a good word, old man -- nor any iron box?"

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  • Shields coruscating, the mighty craft plunged straight toward the Emerald City of Oz. —  F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 04-05 - October-November 2001
  • One moment they were outlined starkly in the beam; there was a moment of searing, coruscating, blinding light--the next moment the beam bored on into the void, unimpeded. —  Skylark Three
  • Mr. Colvin then goes on to enforce and illustrate this contrast between the "accurate and firm definition of things" in classical writers and the "thrilling vagueness and uncertainty," the tremulous, coruscating, vibrating or colored light--the "halo"--with which the romantic writer invests his theme. —  A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
  • Without warning a connector at the panel lit up with a coruscating orange color. —  The Runaway Asteroid
  • Hitherto, in her body, the nearest she had come to coruscating was once when she had taken a course of sulphur baths. —  A Prisoner in Fairyland
 

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