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  • noun Plural form of glowing.

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Examples

  • 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

  • Here were the early glowings of the pen warmed up in Hell.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • Here were the early glowings of the pen warmed up in Hell.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • It flamed and flickered with angry, smoky crimsons and scarlets; with sullen orange glowings and glitterings of sulphurous yellows.

    The Metal Monster 2004

  • 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

  • All of these night-glowings and mummeries sat ill with the big youth.

    Conan the Fearless Perry, Steve 1986

  • There were thirteen vaporous glowings where ships had been.

    Talents, Incorporated Murray Leinster 1935

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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: Chapter 9 1912

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