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- noun Plural form of
glowing .
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Examples
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And all my heart did throb with great glowings of joy; yet was the beat of the Word unsure, so that I knew not truly whether my spirit had indeed heard aught, for there was immediately a silence, as ever, about mine inward being.
The Night Land 2007
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Here were the early glowings of the pen warmed up in Hell.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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Here were the early glowings of the pen warmed up in Hell.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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It flamed and flickered with angry, smoky crimsons and scarlets; with sullen orange glowings and glitterings of sulphurous yellows.
The Metal Monster 2004
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All angry, smoky reds and ochres the cross blazed forth — and in its lurid glowings was something sinister, something real, something cruel, something — nearer to earth, closer to man.
The Metal Monster 2004
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All of these night-glowings and mummeries sat ill with the big youth.
Conan the Fearless Perry, Steve 1986
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There were thirteen vaporous glowings where ships had been.
Talents, Incorporated Murray Leinster 1935
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The jeeps -- used strictly within the barbed-wire fence around the post -- had similar yellow glowings on their instrument-boards, and they were very remarkable jeeps.
The Machine That Saved The World Murray Leinster 1935
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She wondered at the curious glowings, lurid as red coals, that came and went in his eyes.
The Sky Line of Spruce Edison Marshall 1930
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And all my heart did throb with great glowings of joy; yet was the beat of the Word unsure, so that I knew not truly whether my spirit had indeed heard aught, for there was immediately a silence, as ever, about mine inward being.
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