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a celebrity who is an inspiration to others

he was host to a large gathering of luminaries

Nobel Prize winning scientists and other luminaries
a luminary in Harvard's History department
For five, perhaps ten minutes, the two luminaries confronted each other across the level land, resting on opposite edges of the world.
Willa Cather -- My Antonia
We usually honored a luminary in public service and a client.
Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy
And here was Philosophy Hall, an official National Historic Landmark, where John Dewey, among other luminaries, once kept an office.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
The three luminaries are the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars.
Lisa See -- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Yet not to Earth are those bright luminaries Officious; but to thee, Earth's habitant.
John Milton -- Paradise Lost
He returned this challenge a moment, consciously, resisting an inclination to frown as one frowns in the presence of larger luminaries.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
The sun, the great luminary of the universe, had become as sackcloth of hair.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Give me tidings of her, oh luminary of the three faces!
Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote
I will make them media luminaries.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
Who was this novice in war with the effrontery of a luminary?
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
He would sit for any length of time, with the utmost enjoyment, bathing his temples in the light of any order of luminary.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
Now that a new light shone upon the horizon, this older luminary paled in the west.
Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
He returned this challenge a moment, consciously, resisting an inclination to frown as one frowns in the presence of larger luminaries.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
I kept it between us, whilst I wrote, making it serve the double purpose of luminary and shield.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
The glimmer of this luminary suggested the above conceits to Mr. Dimmesdale, who smiled—nay, almost laughed at them—and then wondered if he was going mad.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
As the stars began to peek from the evening sky, everyone gathered on the quad, which was ringed by the tall white statues of past luminaries.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
Had the apprentice been reading the complete works of Goethe or any other such luminary, that was what would have sat in front of them.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

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