All 4 Uses of
luminous
in
Story of My Life
- But during the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out.†
Chpt 1 *
- …is like a shallow brook which ripples and dances merrily over the stony course of its education and reflects here a flower, there a bush, yonder a fleecy cloud; and she attempted to guide my mind on its way, knowing that like a brook it should be fed by mountain streams and hidden springs, until it broadened out into a deep river, capable of reflecting in its placid surface, billowy hills, the luminous shadows of trees and the blue heavens, as well as the sweet face of a little flower.†
Chpt 7
- One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire.†
Chpt 20
- A luminous warmth seems to enfold me.†
Chpt 22
Definition:
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(luminous) glowing or shining
(also used metaphorically to describe beauty or intelligence)