How To Use Luminary In A Sentence
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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)
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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
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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
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I’ve never been called luminary before, and I think it’s a new favorite word.
Sleepy in Seattle « Inky
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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
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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
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Sir, Mr. Fletcher was a luminary -- _a luminary_, did I say?
Fletcher of Madeley
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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
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As a luminary and law minister Beig can not be expected to overstep his jurisdiction and transgress his limits beyond his domain.
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‘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
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90, Roget, the sage, luminary, longhead, shining light, wizard of synonyms had seen twenty-five editions of the work that has come to be inseparably associated with his name as an eponymous word.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 3
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Davis may have gone on to break the trail for cool jazz, modal jazz and fusion, but these early Savoy recordings captured him before the evolution: as a young bebopper surrounded by other luminary musicians.
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Out of the love He bore Enoch, God arrayed him in a magnificent garment, to which every kind of luminary in existence was attached, and a crown gleaming with forty-nine jewels, the splendor of which pierced to all parts of the seven heavens and to the four corners of the earth.
The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1
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No less a luminary than Isaac Newton said God is “everywhere and everywhen.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Obama Administration to Appeal in National Day of Prayer Case
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Prof. BERNARD: Van Vechten was friends with the president of Fisk at the time, Charles Johnson, who was another kind of -- you know, kind of luminary of this period, and later, you know, of -- sort of black politics at this time.
Remember Me to Harlem
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With its generous contribution to the FIRST Robotics Competition at ourhighest Crown Supplier level, Luminary Micro makes it possible for us to turnthe FIRST vision of inspiring young people's interest and participation inscience and technology into a reality," said FIRST president,
GuruFocus Updates
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Farther, the air being variously impregnated, sometimes more and sometimes less, with vapours and exhalations fitted to retund and intercept the rays of light, it follows that the appearance of the horizontal moon hath not always an equal faintness, and by consequence that luminary, though in the very same situation, is at one time judged greater than at another.
A Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
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But on the fourth day God created the great luminary, that is, the sun, to have rule and authority [1718] over the day: for it is by it that day is made: for it is day when the sun is above the earth, and the duration of a day is the course of the sun over the earth from its rising till its setting.
NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
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While Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Nelson Mandela ranked ahead of Gates this year, the tech luminary has seen his "admirability" status rise over the last several years.
Bill Gates More Admired Than The Pope, Dalai Lama
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Love Luminary Allison Stillman, a talented aromatherapist and author, told me the following anecdote about what life is like when you listen to your heart:
Love For No Reason
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In benignant and gracious conduct he was to be as a "luminary" (_phôstêr_), moving calm and bright in the dark hemisphere of the world.
Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians
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Friede was a publishing luminary and witty gadabout.
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Fanie de Villiers had been a luminary exponent of the 'blockhole' art.
News24
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The luminary was a golden-haired, beaming, mild-eyed, God-like creature, gazing down in the vigour and intentness of youth upon an earth that was brimming with interest for him.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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I mean, the sht flinging Baboon is a veritable luminary in the field of politics.
Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 20, 2010
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Indeed, Brewster is what I would call a luminary of luscious lattes, wot! '
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