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  • The poor, over-awed bean-counters gave it proably with suitable effulgences about Leslie's cleverness and their own unworthiness.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Dagna 2009

  • The poor, over-awed bean-counters gave it proably with suitable effulgences about Leslie's cleverness and their own unworthiness.

    Grace Hopper has a lot to answer for! Dagna 2009

  • Then come out those fiery effulgences, infernally superb; then the evil-blazing diamond, once the divinest symbol of the crystal skies, looks like some crown-jewel stolen from the King of Hell.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • Now, in that Japanese sea, the days in summer are as freshets of effulgences.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • Let this century be the sun of previous centuries, the effulgences of which shall last forever, so that in times to come they shall glorify the twentieth century, saying the twentieth century was the century of lights, the twentieth century was the century of life, the twentieth century was the century of international peace, the twentieth century was the century of divine bestowals, and the twentieth century has left traces which shall last forever.

    Compilation on Peace Universal House of Justice

  • He had enriched his zeal for broad-basing the people's worship on their own everyday earth, and for enlightening things opaque with effulgences invisible.

    Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Arthur Shearly Cripps 1910

  • Of the deeply religious nature of the Greeks, along with their beautiful and sunny effulgences of art, you have striking proof, if you look for it.

    Paras. 1-24 1909

  • The action took place in the period of the Indian afterglow, in which one can see better than in brilliant sunlight, a light that breathes soft and delicate effulgences.

    Son of Power Zamin Ki Dost 1905

  • Do refresh these faded souls with the drops of the cloud of Thy gifts, and do illumine these lowly beings through the effulgences of the sun of Thy Singleness!

    Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� 1882

  • Kingdom and the pavilion of His might, where we shall chant the verses of thanks for His bounty, generosity and gifts, the lights of which have shone upon all horizons and their effulgences have become intense upon the hearts of the people of harmony.

    Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� 1882

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