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In the leafy half-light, which is neither dawn nor twilight, but that reverential effulgence which is made by moonlight sifting finely through midsummer foliage, the Rothel murmured over its rocky bed; once, when in a deep pool its babble wholly ceased, an owl broke the silence with his "witti-hoo-hoo-hoo Still upwards he kept his way and his pace until he emerged into the full moonlight of the heights.— Flamsted quarries
It only appears when the comet gets near to the sun's effulgence, and is lost altogether when that body gets far from the great source of mundane light and heat.— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852
Hasten, hasten to the effulgence which is shining like unto the sun from the Supreme Horizons throughout ages and cycles O beloved of God and His maid-servants!— Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas
Therefore must no stranger find his way into the city of the heart, so that the Incomparable Friend may come unto His own place--that is, the effulgence of His Names and Attributes, not His Essence (exalted is He), for that Peerless King hath been and will be holy for everlasting above ascent or descent.— A Traveler’s Narrative

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