glowing

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'Twas good of you to listen; now enfold it Deep in your heart,--warm, glowing, as I told it He goes out in the background to the others.

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  1. The act or state of giving out intense heat and light.
  2. Ardor. Persons who pretend to feel The glowings of uncommon zeal. Lloyd, A Tale.

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  • There the fires were still glowing, and about them and in rows where they could be dried by the sun lay hundreds upon hundreds of good-sized fish: the harvest the Indians had been taking from the river; while the state of some which were piled together beneath a projecting piece of rock suggested that the fishers must have been staying there for days They are sure to come back for this fish," said Brace Very likely," said Sir Humphrey. —  Old Gold The Cruise of the "Jason" Brig
  • Dora immediately followed him--her cheeks were glowing, and her eyes were unusually bright Mr. Mallery," she began--speaking in a quick, excited tone--"I beg you will not consider yourself grossly insulted. —  Three People
  • He remembered him as the glowing, enthusiastic boy, for whom the whole Latin Quarter felt such sympathy when he had to give up his beloved art and go into business. —  Molly Brown's Orchard Home
  • She smiled radiantly and her face was vivid, glowing, almost startling in its beauty I am so happy!" —  Rosemary
  • The thoughts were fresh and glowing, the measure correct, the versification melodious. —  Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author
 

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glowing:   glow ·  glows ·  glowed
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