luminescences

The fertile fields of France, black lakes, give way to Channel nothingness, an interval too brief before the luminescences of England spill bacillae everywhere.

A Wee Irish Suite Updike, John 2008

Dulled and faint were his fires, dimmed his splendors; and fainter still were the violet luminescences of the watching Stars, the shimmering livery of his court.

The Metal Monster 2004

From every girder and column, from every arras, pendent and looping, burst diamond glitterings, ruby luminescences, lanced flames of molten emerald and sapphires, flashings of amethyst and opal, meteoric iridescences, dazzling spectrums.

The Metal Monster 2004

Now the flanking pyramids shot forth into twin stars, blazing with violet luminescences.

The Metal Monster 2004

The cap lamp is equipped with a double filament bulb which allows different luminescences and operating periods.

6.1 Underground lighting equipment 1993

Eventually, they all flew to the ceiling and, over the course of several minutes they modulated their luminescences until, by twos and threes, and then fives and tens, suddenly they were all blinking in unison.

Sarx 2009

But the oval was not perfect; at my right a screen cut it — a screen that gleamed with fugitive, fleeting luminescences — stretching from the side of our standing place up to the tip of the chamber; slightly convex and crisscrossed by millions of fine lines like those upon a spectroscopic plate, but with this difference — that within each line I sensed the presence of multitudes of finer lines, dwindling into infinitude, ultramicroscopic, traced by some instrument compared to whose delicacy our finest tool would be as a crowbar to the needle of a micrometer.

The Moon Pool 2004

But the oval was not perfect; at my right a screen cut it -- a screen that gleamed with fugitive, fleeting luminescences -- stretching from the side of our standing place up to the tip of the chamber; slightly convex and crisscrossed by mil-lions of fine lines like those upon a spectroscopic plate, but with this difference -- that within each line I sensed the pres-ence of multitudes of finer lines, dwindling into infinitude, ultramicroscopic, traced by some instrument compared to whose delicacy our finest tool would be as a crowbar to the needle of a micrometer.

The Moon Pool 1919

But the oval was not perfect; at my right a screen cut it -- a screen that gleamed with fugitive, fleeting luminescences -- stretching from the side of our standing place up to the tip of the chamber; slightly convex and crisscrossed by millions of fine lines like those upon a spectroscopic plate, but with this difference -- that within each line I sensed the presence of multitudes of finer lines, dwindling into infinitude, ultramicroscopic, traced by some instrument compared to whose delicacy our finest tool would be as a crowbar to the needle of

The Moon Pool Abraham Merritt 1913