LUMINOUS in THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES

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Definition

glowing or shining

(also used metaphorically to describe beauty or intelligence)

It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light.
Chapter 1 — Mr. Sherlock Holmes (20% in)

They all agreed that it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral.
Chapter 3 — The Problem (24% in)
This paste in the tin is no doubt the luminous mixture with which the creature was daubed.
Chapter 14 — The Hound of the Baskervilles (96% in)

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luminous used in The Hound of the Baskervilles