How To Use Luminous In A Sentence

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But if you want voluminous leaf production during summer, you may want to fertigate it occasionally. Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway
Hospital case notes are more voluminous than traditional British general practice paper records, which are normally maintained on small cards, named after the politician who introduced them more than 90 years ago.
There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.
The luciferin-luciferase's reaction system may emit fluorescence, while the toxic substances will suppress the luminous intensity.

Yet this masterful, luminous image places him in the august company of the renowned landscapist John Knox, with whom he worked on a series of views of Glasgow.
The gallery is approached across a voluminous, rather airport-like atrium that also houses the company's canteen.
It is a dazzling display of luminous atoms, a kind of pantheistic evocation. The French Impressionists (1860-1900)
Space has to be carved out and carefully wrapped to create a luminous, inward-looking void, augmented by carefully framed views of the townscape.
With its elegiac note of a civilisation falling apart while two old men continue their moves toward checkmate, the story is a luminous exploration of a culture that is both realisable yet tantalisingly intangible.
Crookes, a toy called the spinthariscope, on which radium particles impinge upon sulphide of zinc and make it luminous, induced him to associate the two sets of phenomena. The World Set Free
The surface material reflected the light and they became luminous.
The atmosphere in this video is darkened yet strangely luminous, the video palette seemingly blued and grayed.
In her luminous green and red jacket, she was easy to spot.
Roy Round, whose dance photographs fill this handsome volume, is at his best when he is straightforward, when the subject seems to emerge from luminous, unpunctuated space, and when the challenge of pure movement is palpable.
The lightweight fabric makes this voluminous new shape more flattering. Times, Sunday Times
The paragraph holds luminously good still for either Bobby – Jones or Moore:What we talk about here is not the hero as sportsman, but that something which a civilised community hungered for and found: the best performer in the world who was also hero as human being, the gentle, wholly self-sufficient male. My dream job as Bobby Moore's minder for a fortnight | Frank Keating
Rendered in black augmented by a thin sienna pinstripe, each is a variation on a halved or quartered circle which floats below center in a field of pale, luminous celadon green.
M. Faye, of the French Academy, inclined to a lunar origin for them; [193] Feilitsch of Greifswald published in 1852 a treatise for the express purpose of proving all the luminous phenomena attendant on solar eclipses -- corona, prominences and "sierra" -- to be purely optical appearances. [ A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
It glows up to 100 times brighter than luminous paints and doesn't require charging. Times, Sunday Times
Rendered in black augmented by a thin sienna pinstripe, each is a variation on a halved or quartered circle which floats below center in a field of pale, luminous celadon green.
Phosphor is clearly named for the pale, luminous green that animates a thick, pythonlike convolution which winds up from the bottom of the horizontal canvas and takes several loops around itself before exiting at the top.
In this mind-blowing and heart-opening experience, I witnessed a six-foot-tall luminous egg directly in front of me. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
Without a scrap of make-up, the chocolate-box prettiness is still there: the clear turquoise eyes, creamy skin and chiselled bone structure are luminous.
Best of all, Germany's crackerjack Ensemble Modern played the luminous score with extraordinary virtuosity.
These were the ones whose jeans looked uncomfortably snug, whose faces had a moonish quality that didn't quite seem accustomed, who cloaked themselves in voluminous hoodies. Your college kid, plus 15
Above me, two white clouds drifted with imperceptible motion across a luminous blue sky. DOUBTING THOMAS
If you are wearing a voluminous shape on your bottom half, keep the top half neat. The Sun
Those we recall with greatest fondness, all cut their figures against a wider, more luminous backdrop than mere office.
The only British actress to be nominated for an Oscar this year is luminous and touching in Jim Sheridan's immigrant fable.
The legend, with the addition of a strong homoerotic current, was cemented by Derek Jarman's luminous film.
He wore a kind of paletôt of light camlet cloth, with voluminous lapels and deep cuffs of lavender watered silk; very baggy trousers, with lavender stripes down the seams; very shiny boots and quite as glossy a hat; his attire being completed by tightly-fitting gloves, of the hue known in Paris as beurre frais — that is to say, light yellow. Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
I could see him clearly through his luminous bluish mist, his blue eyes watching me with worry.
Romani, Imperium Populi Romani, Fortuna Populi Romani_, glitter out of the voluminous periods with a splendour that hardly any other words could give. Latin Literature
The mist had become a great white luminous cloud -- not dense and alabastrine, like the clouds of thunder; but filmy, tender, comparable to the atmosphere of Dante's moon. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series
The camera loves the luminous actress, whose elfish eyes and Titian hair evoke the spark beneath her calm exterior.
The luminous efficacy constant, also referred to as the coolness index, indicates a window's relative performance in rejecting solar heat while transmitting daylight.
There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.
Her colours are luminous, with multiple layers of pigment, painted quickly but with great care and attention.
As soft as a blush when one is complimented, a pink hue with the warm sweetness of jasmine in a bottle that too is a blush colour yet is more romantic in tone, luminous in feel.
That key person needs to listen intently, take voluminous notes, and collect all class handouts, texts, and tests.
He was running across a field that bore only the most luminous, starry flowers in existence.
As one of the most promising light sources, white LED has many advantages, such as high luminous efficiency, high luminous intensity, long life period etc.
Overhead, the eternal sky glowed with its luminous clouds.
The sound reproduction is quite good, too, in spite of some odd balances: certain brass instruments are pushed back too far, while the clarinet and other less voluminous instruments are well up front.
In its widest sense the term designates not only the sacred texts, but also the voluminous theological and philosophical literature attached thereto, the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
I could not imagine how she had fit in there with such a voluminous dress.
The upper section has breathable air mesh and luminous reflective strips for night running. Times, Sunday Times
They painted the door a luminous green.
His predilection for gray-greens, gray-pinks, pale ochers, browns, blacks and a luminous cobalt blue call up archaic Mediterranean origins, rusticated walls and early Italian frescoes.
Its left panel frames a standing portrait of Serena, her hair arranged in a thick roll around her head, her person adorned in the high-necked voluminous tunic layered over a tighter-fitting underdress that had become the prevailing fashion for women of late antiquity. Caesars’ Wives
Students designed small luminaires that were integrated into a larger-scale installation called ‘LiteBEAM,’ a repetitive, luminous, suspended ceiling system.
Toward the edges of the Sun, again, are very brilliant and highly luminous regions, which generally surround the spots, and have been termed _faculæ_ (_facula_, a little torch). Astronomy for Amateurs
The crepitation is the result of the action of a powerful magnetic pole upon luminous electric jets in its immediate neighborhood. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859
This is a gorgeous foundation which makes skin look naturally dewy and luminous. The Sun
I remember loving the luminous rich colours, 1920's feel and the lovely slightly melancholic mood it has.
In a series of online opinionsurveys and in voluminous press commentary, debate has been surprisingly intense.
The sea rolls before us, luminous waves break on the shore, and the moon shines down white from a dark sky.
Oil and fragrance-free, it has an SPF 14 and photochromatic pigments to bend, reflect and diffuse light to erase flaws and give a soft, luminous finish. WalesOnline - Home
He created the Bunsen burner for use in flame tests of various metals and salts: its nonluminous flame did not interfere with the colored flame given off by the test material. Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard
It's an ambience that fosters sharing; the best way to approach the enticing array of antipasti and snacks that precede the pizza and complement a voluminous all-Italian wine list.
Today, that destination is a world peopled with clowns, gymnasts, panthers, snakes, men and women, young and old, in brilliant reds and greens and luminous yellows.
Luminous stars flecked the black night sky like fireflies.
The air was luminous; a faint south wind murmured in the pine tops.
Colour glows almost eerily in their luminous expanses. Times, Sunday Times
He wore a vest top and a pair of luminous shorts to the beach party.
This, in turn, will make the colour appear more luminous and help to distinguish it from the other greens in the garden. Times, Sunday Times
Asiatic lilies make up for having little or no scent with the beauty of their huge upturned flowers in luminous colours.
a voluminous skirt
Another introduced tree that is turning a luminous yellow is the tulip tree. Times, Sunday Times
There are Books of Hours painted on vellum, intricate hymnals, Psalters, antiphonals, breviaries, bestiaries, herbals, and luminous Bibles for monasteries and kings. The Memory Palace
In this paper, a novel method so-called bioluminescence inhibition assay with luminous bacteria (Photobacterium phosphoreum) was introduced to evaluate the toxicity of quantum dots.
Instead, opt for a light, luminous formula that blends into the skin. Times, Sunday Times
Once she casts off the self-parodying gloom of her early scenes, we see why she is so often called ‘luminous.’
Most clocks and watches in this shop are in luminous paint.
Although the jalousies are painted green, the interiors are not gloomy. In fact, the grass green color becomes more luminous in certain light and particularly when reflected off the plaster ceilings.
Inevitably, a selection of subjects from Augustine's voluminous writings reflects the particular interests and views of the author.
Workmen sit outside in helmets and luminous jackets, lounging in the sun before returning to work.
The FBI kept a voluminous file on Pablo Picasso.
Make these changes to your skincare routine now to have more luminous skin by spring. The Sun
Strange, luminous colours leap out of the final print. Times, Sunday Times
In orange and green spray paint that seems almost subtle next to the luminous signatures and bawdy slogans, a simple piece of graffiti is etched onto the wall of the off-license on a Hull estate.
His voluminous surviving correspondence is full of letters from noblemen of all ranks eager to gain his favour or reporting on tasks that he had given them in the hope of further preferment.
Crowley's own voluminous writings, published and unpublished, contain no reference to a religion of pagan witches.
That part of a luminaire designed to reflect the luminous flux of the lamps in required directions by means of specular reflection.
Through the wide variety of historical photographs, paintings and statuary included, we see correspondences of silhouette, construction, color and embellishment that teach us how to "read" a design—the way, for instance, the ornate embroidery of a matador's bolero brings drama to an evening gown, or how voluminous gathers of fabric, thrillingly elegant in a sleeve or skirt, are actually a translation from the festive dress of Spanish laborers. Fashion's Eternal Flame
SNAP-style program of single orbit FGS TRANS mode observations of very massive stars in the cluster NGC 3603, luminous blue variables, nearby low mass main sequence stars, cool subdwarf stars, and white dwarfs. SpaceRef Top Stories
Hanley Black's wife, a stout-in-the-middle matron of 45, thinks "It's positively indecent" while her husband "surveyed his wife's criminal shapelessness and voluminousness of ante-diluvian, New England swimming dress with a withering, contemplative eye" and tells her in a sentence never uttered by a human before or since, "You appear as a creature shameful, under a grotesqueness of apparel striving to hide some secret awfulness. “It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.”
French Revolution was noteworthy in college annals, not merely for its painstaking and voluminous accuracy, but for the fact that it was the dryest, deadest, most formal, and most orthodox screed ever written on the subject. SOUTH OF THE SLOT
The luminous light shone into his retinas and he squinted slightly.
Georges Seurat: The Drawings is the first exhibition in almost 25 years to focus exclusively on the artist's luminous drawings.
Not to say that he was immune to her, no, he sensed the strangest feeling coming on as he looked upon her luminous visage now, as if all his internal organs had been scrambled together and congealed into a wobbly mass of jelly.
The original process may be summed up under the following heads: Printing or padding with an aluminous mordant, which is fixed and cleaned in the usual manner; dyeing in alizarin for reds with addition of calcium acetate; padding in sulpholeic acid and drying; steaming and soaping. Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881
The text is eminently readable and supported by detailed citations and a voluminous index.
The works of Martène (1654-1739) on ecclesiastical and monastic rites (1690 and 1700-2) and his collections of anecdota (1700, 1717, and 1724-33) are most voluminous; he was assisted by Durand. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
At the foot of this tree sat Tibbie Dyster; and from her red cloak the level sun-tide was thrown back in gorgeous glory; so that the eyeless woman, who only felt the warmth of the great orb, seemed, in her effulgence of luminous red, to be the light-fountain whence that torrent of rubescence burst. Alec Forbes of Howglen
After the cor anglais, the oboe and the clarinet, the wind ensemble sings ‘Alleluia’ under a luminous haze of trills and harmonies in the strings.
His companion scurried to obey him, unclipping a ring of heavy keys from somewhere inside his voluminous robes.
The range includes silver Puffa jackets, plastic buckle wrap-around skirts, luminous vest tops and fleece trousers.
My watch has a luminous dial so I can see it in the dark.
His prose is simple and luminous and quite popular among ordinary readers.
It is really important to get your foundation right to give yourself glowing, luminous skin. The Sun
Moon's brooding landscapes, somewhat reminiscent of Corot, capture the beauty of trees and the luminous colour of the countryside.
I am worth more, for it is I who bring them forth, sing them forth - luminous nacreous spheres tumbling forth, scattering on the ground. Valentines, part the first
At the gallery, thick black electrical cords lay slack along the floor, connecting these polyluminous personages to their respective wall sockets.
Here, not the city's colorful, yes, just a subtitle Qingqing brightly luminous.
Huge "arctics" were strapped on his feet, from which seemed to spring, as from massive roots, his small, thin form, clad in a scanty _robe de chambre_ of cotton flannel, surmounted by a broad sou'wester, carefully covered by a voluminous white pocket handkerchief. Adrift in the Ice-Fields
Unusual clouds, darkness profound, luminous appearances in the sky, and falls of substances and objects whether commonly called meteoritic or not. The Book of the Damned
Maybe "tomorrow" one of those medical geniuses we kept consulting -- and paying -- would crunch all of those voluminous sheets of data they kept asking us to provide and figure out how a kid who spoke English and had words in Spanish, Cantonese and Tagalog at the age of three, now could not utter a word. Barbara Fischkin: Hillary Said the Word -- An Autism Mom Finally Feels Acknowledged
Displayed on the immense luminous wall screen behind the briefer was a planform depiction of the planetary system. Genellan- Planetfall
This paper introduces a single - projection - lens LCD stereoscopic video projector with optimized luminous efficiency.
The second misrepresentation runs thus: -- 'The developments of electricity and the formation of stars and suns, luminous and nonluminous, moons and planets, with their rings, &c., is deduced, very much according to the nebular theory of Laplace, from the principle propounded above.' International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
He defined ‘lightness’ as ‘luminous tracings that are placed in the foreground and set in contrast to dark catastrophe.’
There is a gleam of luminous gold , where the sinking western sun has found a first direct interstice in the clouds.
Such may reduce variable star the luminous cycle.
I can't move, I'm so enraptured by the way the last luminous rays of light dance over his glowing skin.
Although biotite is capable of this, other minerals such as muscovite, garnet and cordierite are more efficient and preferentially occur in strongly peraluminous rocks.
The big blue: from the air the islands appear as tiny patches of greenery surrounded by luminous circles of sand.
A bright sunbow stood over the torrent, which, seen from below, has the appearance of a luminous white arch bending from rock to rock. The Diary of an Ennuyée
But "brightsome" is a word ( "Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant" according to Webster's), and many versions of the lyrics to "East Virginia" have a similar line beginning "Her hair was of some brightsome color" (eg Alan Lomax's collection). Rosa Lee McFall
His voluminous writings became scripture defining the party line and the correct view of history.
Among the creatures identified in the deep sea areas were luminous jellyfish and gelatinous creatures known as finned octopods, or "dumbos," because they flap earlike fins and look like the cartoon elephant. AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)
The plain, self-luminous with the weird lucence of the arid lands, showed ghostly. Arizona Nights
It is about as drop-dead beautiful as vocal music gets, enveloped in luminous orchestration.
If you like to feel the road beneath you (some runners and walkers swear it makes them faster), choose a shoe with slightly thinner midsoles and less voluminous cushioning inserts under the heel and forefoot.
Built using curved douglas fir plywood and tubular steel, everything is delicately illuminated by an opalescent storage wall and luminous bricks. Holley House by Hanrahan Meyers Architects
In this heightened perception human beings appear as ‘fibres of light’ that assume the form of ‘luminous eggs’.
He fixed me with those luminous, empty eyes and his melancholy smile.
When I was walking home, the moon was simply gigantic; it was a luminous, celestial pearl.
It also quotes extensively from his voluminous war notes - letters, journals, and personal reminiscences written during and shortly after the war.
Gripes, by means of the aluminous sharp Particles of its Earth; Its Air is also so bad, as has obliged several to remove from its Situation for their The London and Country Brewer
The backdrop of sky passes through the entire color spectrum in seamless gradation from violet and indigo above through queasy green and luminous gold to a deep, luscious red below.
At the Met, Paul Signac and his luminous seascapes emerge from Seurat's shadow.
The luminous sun shone brightly over a small cottage in the middle of a long forest as it was setting down.
Throughout his life, possibly because of crippling arthritis, his preferred medium was watercolour, painted in luminous washes within tight well-defined outlines.
Although biotite is capable of this, other minerals such as muscovite, garnet and cordierite are more efficient and preferentially occur in strongly peraluminous rocks.
The elderly beaux still wear the showy embroidered waistcoats, knee breeches, lace ruffles and sparkling shoe buckles of the late eighteenth century, while the younger men, conforming to the newer style, have adopted close-fitting nankeen pantaloons tied above the ankle by a piece of ribbon, and wear long-tailed blue coats adorned with brass buttons, while their necks are swathed in voluminous white muslin cravats. Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends
My computer screen leaves a luminous blue glow over the dark room.
A contemporary reinterpretation of a traditional form, the cloister is a luminous, humanly scaled ambulatory space that leads visitors through the pavilion.
Lifts are surrounded by glowing glass; and luminous white glass boxes are inset into the bar's polished stone counter in the ground floor cafe.
His voluminous writings on the subject for a time enjoyed huge popularity. The Times Literary Supplement
One would say that Nagasaki is ascending at the same time as ourselves; but yonder, and very far away, in a kind of vapory mist which seems luminous on the blackness of the sky; and from the town there rises a confused murmur of voices and rumbling of gongs and laughter. Madame Chrysantheme
There is a voluminous literature on the White Paper, which contains all shades of opinion.
An invariable theme at prayer meetings and in Gandhi's voluminous writings was the urgency to bring devotion in accord with conduct.
I wanted him to give her up and luminously informed him why; on which he never protested nor contradicted, never was even so alembicated as to declare just for the sake of the drama that he wouldn't. Embarrassments
His luminous palette of beiges, peach, light browns, blues and greens approximates the hues of ice creams.
The four alien craft, still being tracked, were nonluminous dots, one in each quadrant of the screen. Chain of Attack
And Tib rises out of that little domestic struggle, covered with glory and crowned with respect; her price so infinitely beyond rubies, that "invaluable" is the only term that can be applied to her; and accordingly Dr. McNab, Mr. Malcolm, and the poor little suffering feverish Dagon himself, unanimously agree that she is invaluable; and the slight rustle of her voluminous silk gown, as she moves across the room to fetch the bottle of colchicum, with the soft slow heavy tread of the elephant, is music to her Dagon's ears. Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
A voluminous tulip shape is flattering, especially if you are worried about your bottom or hips. Times, Sunday Times
These are young, massive, bright stars (about 1000 times more luminous than our Sun) that undergo periodic changes in luminosity.
Plato is a gownsman; his garment, though of purple, and almost sky-woven, is an academic robe and hinders action with its voluminous folds. Representative Men
Luminous by lightning far above him were enormous thunderheads, crackling with fury energy and booming with mighty waves of thunder.
Even his opponents continually referred to him as an eminent and brilliant legal scholar, but I certainly didn't find anything in his voluminous writings that could possibly justify such praise.
One has a dark top and luminous blue bottoms with matching trainers. The Sun
Her eyes seemed almost to be glowing red from the luminous flames.
The indispensable piece remains the sheath dress, interpreted à la nymphet mode by Alessandro dell'Acqua, and dramatically by Lawrence Steele, who created a luminous second skin of metallicized grey with lunar spangles.
But large nuclei, large penumbrae, wrinkles, faculae, do they indicate an abundant luminous and calorific emission, as Herschel thought; that would be the result of his hypothesis on the existence of very active ascending currents, but direct experience seems to contradict it. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men
With sinking hearts, we made a beeline for Buchanan Street and spent two hours buying a chunky-knit cardigan, three pairs of 60 - denier woolly tights and a luminous-yellow stripy vest (half-price).
He told me about nebulae, towering clouds of luminous gas which float through space like vast jellyfish. RESCUING ROSE
Five years older than Voltaire, he died in 1755, leaving a much less voluminous body of writings.
He was hunting for greens when he became aware of the dark shape outlined against the shifting, luminous background.
Nintendo has further slenderized the DSi (by eliminating the slot for Nintendo Advance games, which the DS and DS Lite supported), and increased the size of the luminous screens. Nintendo DSi: Can It Attract Non-Gamers?
This is best seen when the gas is turned low -- with a batswing burner, for instance -- turned so low that only a small non-luminous flame is left, the space between burner and flame will appear as great as the flame itself, while, if the gas is mixed with an inert diluent like carbon dioxide, the space can be very much increased. Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891
In the evenings, in the afterglow of sunset, when parrots darted across the sky, her face would absorb light and slowly become luminous like the moon.
The sky was aflame with the aurora borealis, the eerily luminous northern lights.
Slowly it rose — its mighty neck cuirassed with gold and scarlet scales from whose polished surfaces the amber light glinted like flakes of fire; and under this neck shimmered something like a palely luminous silvery shield, guarding it. The Moon Pool
`There's a wienie roast tonight," Firebug whispered, eyes luminous. SPIDERTOWN
In addition to the more or less complicated structure which owing to the peculiar internal nature of luminous bodies is found in spectral lines, it is also possible to split them under the influence of a magnetic force into several more or less closely packed components. Nobel Prize in Physics 1907 - Presentation Speech
The building was dark, the pews a deep red, and the stained glass windows luminous as the sun shined through them.
His finely detailed ships sail below luminous skies in compositions of great clarity.
An acute awareness of butterflies, which she developed after a brief encounter with a swallowtail in New Mexico, has convinced her that butterflies add a luminous dimension to one's life.
Christian Dior , they would have been swept up into a high-drama, high-heeled vision of high-style, inspired by the 20th century illustrator, René Gruau, and interpreted with chiaroscuro hand-dyed silk tulle, voluminous, multiple layers, and 'brushstroke'-hats. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
When we were at Bahia, an elater or beetle (Pyrophorus luminosus, Illig.) seemed the most common luminous insect. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
He duly received a thirty page document plus voluminous annexes which set out KNS's case at considerable length.
The diaphragm device adjusts an exposure time by controlling incident luminous flux to the photographing element and an electric charge storage time of the photographing element.
It's also because we are seeing a continuation of the voluminous proportions of the past 18 months. Times, Sunday Times
If you like to feel the road beneath you (some runners and walkers swear it makes them faster), choose a shoe with slightly thinner midsoles and less voluminous cushioning inserts under the heel and forefoot.
Voluminous facts indicate that the essence of this report is fan anti - China feeling and undermine - US relations.
Mafic and ultramafic rocks predominate, although a few examples of metasedimentary rocks are known, including aluminous lithologies.
That means also that the world round them has again returned to the Greek conviction, that all nature, especially human nature, is not entirely melodious nor luminous; but a barred and broken thing: that saints have their foibles, sinners their forces; that the most luminous virtue is often only a flash, and the blackest-looking fault is sometimes only a stain: and, without confusing in the least black with white, they can forgive, or even take delight in things that are like the [Greek: nebris], dappled. Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870
The sombre dark altarpieces of Piazzetta are the last great exemplars of Counter-Reformation religious art, while Tiepolo painted luminous and high-keyed frescoes of religious and mythological subjects.
Import tonnage of aluminous cement is small, however levels did increase by more than 33% to 41,137 metric tons.
The sky was bright, luminous blue this evening, exactly the same colour as the Tibetan poppies.
In the Vedic discourse, the cognitive centers are called the devatas or devas - deities or gods, or luminous loci.
Plagioclase is commonly variably replaced by aluminous prehnite, which indicates temperatures below 400°C.
Similarly Sirius, the most luminous star in all the heavens, actually has a faint companion.
Observations of the galaxy, NGC 4945, suggest that this hive of stars is a spiral galaxy much like our own, with swirling, luminous arms and a bar-shaped central region.
Unit of luminous intensity candela The candela is the luminous intensity, in a given direction, of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540 x 1012 hertz and that has a radiant intensity in that direction of 1/683 watt per steradian. International System of Units (SI)
In its interaction with light, it heats up in a luminous glow, giving it life and vibrant personality.
When you coast by these places at night, you can observe under every table cloth a set of eight knobbly candle-white knees dangling from voluminous bags of shorts, above which ample stomachs are coddled by familiar, comforting tuck. Good morning, Melaque: one day in a small Mexico beach town
He found a clever way to stretch the luminous strips and apply them to the bike frame and wheel rims.
Körbes, normally luminous on the State Theater stage, here never seemed to come alive, looking wan and passive, and was completely overshadowed by either.
She stood behind her mother, ivory comb in hand, brushing through the voluminous red hair.
Here, however, he anatomises Ibsen with luminous clarity.
The berries of callicarpa, or beautyberry, are an amazing, luminous, implausible shade of purple. Times, Sunday Times
In the Vedic discourse, the cognitive centers are called the devatas or devas - deities or gods, or luminous loci.
By the way, if, in sixty years of speechifying, journalism, writing two books and conducting voluminous correspondence, George Lansbury ever made a joke or a witticism, it has escaped Dr Shepherd.
Rhadinesthes decimus also has a barbel that extends about half the length of the head and has photophores and luminous material near the stem.
Another interesting variety of this blue sapphire is one known as "chatoyant"; this has a rapidly changing lustre, which seems to undulate between a green-yellow and a luminous blue, with a phosphorescent glow, or fire, something like that seen in the eyes of a cat in the dark, or the steady, burning glow observed when the cat is fascinating a bird -- hence its name. The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
It is a luminous network of lines, floating in three dimensions in a crystal glass cube.

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