luminary

How To Use luminary In A Sentence

• Eclipses they attribute to the attempts of the Evil Spirits to embarrass the labours of the luminary which is eclipsed. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3)
• On every hillside, and in every valley, stood countless asters, coreopses, tansies, golden-rods, and the whole race of yellow flowers, like Brahminical devotees, turning steadily with their luminary from morning till night. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
• Here is an excellent response to socialist luminary Naomi Klein's latest article in which she again blames "free market ideology" as being responsible for the economic crisis, when in fact any cursorary study reveals that the anti-free market policies of the Federal Reserve, along with corporate fascism, not free-market capitalism, are the culprit. Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
• I’ve never been called luminary before, and I think it’s a new favorite word. Sleepy in Seattle « Inky
• Being one sane amidst a crowd of the mad, I hardly dared assert to my own mind, that the vast luminary had undergone no change -- that the shadows of night were unthickened by innumerable shapes of awe and terror; or that the wind, as it sung in the trees, or whistled round an empty building, was not pregnant with sounds of wailing and despair. The Last Man
• Halbert, "doubt not that thy faithful Affability will be more commoved by the speech of this rudesby, than the bright and serene moon is perturbed by the baying of the cottage-cur, proud of the height of his own dunghill, which, in his conceit, lifteth him nearer unto the majestic luminary. The Monastery
• Sir, Mr. Fletcher was a luminary -- _a luminary_, did I say? Fletcher of Madeley
• Being one sane amidst a crowd of the mad, I hardly dared assert to my own mind, that the vast luminary had undergone no change — that the shadows of night were unthickened by innumerable shapes of awe and terror; or that the wind, as it sung in the trees, or whistled round an empty building, was not pregnant with sounds of wailing and despair. The Last Man
• As a luminary and law minister Beig can not be expected to overstep his jurisdiction and transgress his limits beyond his domain.
• ‘It was over about five minutes before you came in,’ replied that luminary pleasantly, as he played at an invisible game of pitch-and-toss with some half-sovereigns in his pocket. The Hand of Ethelberta