lambent

• Wherever the concretion of guilt is most adamantine, there he lets his fine slender jet of humor play like a lambent fire, until the dark mass crumbles, and the choragos of the tragedy begins his mournful yet hopeful chant among the ruins. —  A Study Of Hawthorne
• His eyes were still lambent, his face flushed; he was pathetically grateful and newly besotted. —  Where There's Smoke
• Settling down behind his desk, the skyline of downtown Tokyo glowing like a lambent forest in die early summer sunlight, he unscrewed the top of his cane. —  The White Ninja
• Before him was the master screen, with a tiny yellow globe shining, like a lambent egg, in its geometric center. —  And all the Stars a Stage
• Spinning, levitating, the lambent orb of pale energy resembled some kind of aerial marker, or perhaps a distress signal. —  The Chronicles of Riddick

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