luciferous

• “Lord Cromer was never tired of quoting what, in Bacon's phrase, he would call "luciferous" stories, to illustrate the folly of the administrator who thrusts physical improvements or the devices of”

  The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography

• “Looking directly into his luciferous splendor was painful, so she averted her eyes downward, toward his incandescent but wavering reflection on the ponds surface.”

  Simon & Schuster: Reap the Whirlwind

• “His luciferous raiment unraveled as well, flinging away his folk of sea and coastline and forest.”

  Mercadian Masques

• “Lord Cromer was never tired of quoting what, in Bacon's phrase, he would call “luciferous” stories, to illustrate the folly of the administrator who thrusts physical improvements or the devices of European enlightenment upon the unwilling Oriental solely because they are good per se, or economical, or will make the governed richer or cleverer or happier.”

  The Adventure of Living

• “I remember a luciferous story which was told to me by Colonel John Hay to illustrate the frenzy of party.”

  The Adventure of Living

• “This view of the source of light, as respects the existence of the luciferous element throughout space, accords with the Mosaic account of creation, in so far as that light is described as having been created in the first instance before the sun was called forth.”

  James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography.

• “Indeed, to such as live on the uplands of speculation, not only is the process lucid in itself, but it is luciferous, illuminating all the obscure hiding-places of Nature.”

  Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series

• “Further, assuming this luciferous element to be not equally diffused through space, we find a reason why in some ages of the earth's history the heat should have been greater than at others, why stars have been seen to vary in brightness, and why there was that puzzle to geologists -- a glacial period.”

  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 422 Volume 17, New Series, January 31, 1852

• “In youth the impressions of sorrow are fleeting and evanescent as 'the vapery sail,' that momentarily o'ershadows the luciferous orb of even, vanishes and leaves her disc untarnished in its lustre: so may it be with you -- may the gloom of this moment, like the elemental prototype, be but the precursor of reappearing radiance undimmed by the transitory shadow.”

  Diary in America, Series One

• “But of this, and of the Experiment of the Rosemary, I shall elsewhere more fully consider, seeming to me an extreme luciferous Experiment, such as seems indeed very plainly to prove the _Schematism_ or structure of”

  Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon

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