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scintilla
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  • As a scintillant darkness sprayed across her field of vision, she started to slump forward.†  (source)
  • The pain in her side beneath her breast stabs her, scintillant, glowing sharply like the sudden return of an ugly recollection.†  (source)
  • The stars were white and sharp beyond the flesh of the Martian, and they were sewn into his flesh like scintillas swallowed into the thin, phosphorescent membrane of a gelatinous sea fish.†  (source)
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  • Above the black bulk of the eastern hills, and in the great bowl of the sky, far bright stars were scintillant as jewels.†  (source)
  • He would need every scintilla of information he could get.†  (source)
  • He was scintillant with recollections.†  (source)
  • To his one-word answers he would add nothing—not a scintilla of color commentary or new information.†  (source)
  • This was, of course, to prevent their discovery by the Yankees, who in the last months of the war did arrive with a clatter of hoofs and scintillant sabers, dismantled the interior of the house before my grandmother's frightened girlish eyes, ransacked the garden, but found no gold.†  (source)
  • The medical answer was what I expected to hear: Dad had suffocated, the macroscopic coal and rock dust that clogged his lungs finally denying him even a scintilla of air.†  (source)
  • Or perhaps the 747 was already below the high overcast, affording him a ghostly panorama of onrushing Colorado landscape, faintly luminous in shades of gray from dusty pearl to charcoal, with the golden glow of Pueblo scintillant to the south.†  (source)
  • Anyone with a scintilla of common sense would remain here and make good use of the bracing effects of local conditions.†  (source)
  • Instead, she fixed her eyes on the most obvious and immediate object within view: the heroic Fuhrer in scintillant steel armor, his gaze confident and serene beneath his falling forelock as he looked toward Valhalla and a thousand years' questionless futurity.†  (source)
  • She looked drawn and tired, now musing down upon the scintillant little treasure which was the wristwatch Nathan had given her.†  (source)
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