luminary

• “Sir, Mr. Fletcher was a luminary -- _a luminary_, did I say?”

  Fletcher of Madeley

• “But on the fourth day God created the great luminary, that is, the sun, to have rule and authority [1718] over the day: for it is by it that day is made: for it is day when the sun is above the earth, and the duration of a day is the course of the sun over the earth from its rising till its setting.”

  NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus

• “The luminary was a golden-haired, beaming, mild-eyed, God-like creature, gazing down in the vigour and intentness of youth upon an earth that was brimming with interest for him.”

  Tess of the d'Urbervilles

• “Indeed, Brewster is what I would call a luminary of luscious lattes, wot! ”

  IGN Complete

• “Prof. BERNARD: Van Vechten was friends with the president of Fisk at the time, Charles Johnson, who was another kind of -- you know, kind of luminary of this period, and later, you know, of -- sort of black politics at this time.”

  Remember Me to Harlem

• “Eclipses they attribute to the attempts of the Evil Spirits to embarrass the labours of the luminary which is eclipsed.”

  Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3)

• “I’ve never been called luminary before, and I think it’s a new favorite word.”

  Sleepy in Seattle « Inky

• “Out of the love He bore Enoch, God arrayed him in a magnificent garment, to which every kind of luminary in existence was attached, and a crown gleaming with forty-nine jewels, the splendor of which pierced to all parts of the seven heavens and to the four corners of the earth.”

  The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1

• “In benignant and gracious conduct he was to be as a "luminary" (_phôstêr_), moving calm and bright in the dark hemisphere of the world.”

  Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians

• “There's always those kind of luminary figures that seem to speak the truth," he says.”

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