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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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