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Glowing

adjective

1.

Highly enthusiastic.

noun

1.

The amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface. Synonyms: glow, radiance.

Glow

verb

(past & past part. glowed; pres. part. glowing)

1.

Emit a steady even light without flames.

2.

Have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink. Synonyms: beam, radiate, shine.

3.

Shine intensely, as if with heat. Synonym: burn. "The candles were burning"

4.

Be exuberant or high-spirited.

5.

Experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion. Synonyms: beam, radiate, shine. "Her face radiated with happiness"

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"Glowing" Quotes from Famous Books

... Every tawny figure at the oars, every flutter of the crimson and blue streamers, every fold of the green and yellow national flag at the prow, was as distinct below the surface as above it. The fairy boat, for so it looked floating between glowing sky and water, and seeming to borrow color from both, came on apace, and as it approached our friends greeted us with many a Viva! to which we responded as heartily. Then the two canoes joined company, and we went on together, ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 • Various

... each now busied himself at these different tasks. In the course of an hour they had a fire glowing at the centre of the barabbara, which now would otherwise have been quite dark. The smoke did not seriously trouble them after they had learned to keep down low on the floor. Each unrolled his blankets on the deep, sweet-scented grass ...

— The Young Alaskans • Emerson Hough

... with a light heart and a happy smile, had gone, came Maude, sunburned and glowing ...

— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... which grew out of the walls of the old gray houses. From this window I had also an excellent view of the Mount of Olives, over which I now observed the rosy tint of the rising sun. I watched it, and gradually the rose deepened into a glowing hue; then the sun rose like a ball of living fire. The towering minarets and mountain-tops caught the golden rays. The magnificent blue hue of the distant mountains of Moab reflected the gorgeous gold. The rays were also reflected in the window-panes ...

— Harper's Young People, July 6, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... of the sixteenth century left their mark on Ypres as well as on the rest of Flanders. Everyone has read the glowing sentences in which the historian of the Dutch Republic describes the Cathedral of Antwerp, and tells how it was wrecked by the reformers during the image-breaking in the summer of 1566. What happened on the banks of the Scheldt appeals most to the imagination; but all ...

— Bruges and West Flanders • George W. T. Omond

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