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Radiance

noun

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

The quality of being bright and sending out rays of light. Synonyms: effulgence, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine.

An attractive combination of good health and happiness.

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"Radiance" Quotes from Famous Books

... happily, while Hilda walked beside her in a kind of silent rage, almost hating herself for the fulness of vigor, the superabundant health and buoyancy, which she felt in every limb. She looked sidelong at the transparent cheek, the wasted frame, the unearthly radiance of the blue eyes. This girl was just her own age, and had never walked! It could not, it must not, be so always. Thoughts thronged into her mind of the great New York physicians and the wonders they had wrought. ...

— Queen Hildegarde • Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

... rising moon. The little circle of light from our pink-shaded candles on the table (I say our, because Boy and I dined together) gave to the picture a bizarre effect, which French artists love to put on canvas; a blur of gold-and-rose artificial light, blending with the silver-green radiance of ...

— The Princess Passes • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson

... last the Summer grew contrite, and the Sun forgiving, the one burst out into a flood of tears, the other into a flood of light. In simple words, the Summer wept and the Sun smiled—and for one broken month there was a perpetual alternation of rain and radiance! How beautiful is penitence! How beautiful forgiveness! For one week the Summer was restored to his pristine peace and old luxuriance, and the ...

— Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 • John Wilson

... but in the rush of new books upon the world the readers of to-day lose sight of the volumes which wove threads of gold into the joys and sorrows of the generation now travelling the downward slope of life. Their starry radiance is sometimes lost to view in the electric flash of the present day. If these pages can in any slight way aid in keeping their memory bright they will have reached their ...

— Literary Hearthstones of Dixie • La Salle Corbell Pickett

... midnight to see her in that position. Seen through a three or four inch telescope, a day or two before the first quarter, about half an hour after sunset, and with a magnifying power between fifty and one hundred, the moon is one of the most beautiful objects in the heavens. Twilight softens her radiance so that the eye is not dazzled as it will be when the sky is entirely dark. The general aspect she then presents is that of a hemisphere of beautiful chased silver carved out in curious round patterns with a more than human skill. If, however, one wishes to see the minute details of ...

— Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science • Simon Newcomb

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