All 9 Uses
luminous
in
The Island of Dr. Moreau
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- I did not know then that a reddish luminosity, at least, is not uncommon in human eyes.†
Chpt 4 *
- At any rate, they were an amazingly ugly gang, and over the heads of them under the forward lug peered the black face of the man whose eyes were luminous in the dark.†
Chpt 6
- Yet surely, and especially to another scientific man, there was nothing so horrible in vivisection as to account for this secrecy; and by some odd leap in my thoughts the pointed ears and luminous eyes of Montgomery's attendant came back again before me with the sharpest definition.†
Chpt 7
- On the farther side I saw through a bluish haze a tangle of trees and creepers, and above these again the luminous blue of the sky.†
Chpt 9
- There was an emerald flash in his eyes as he glanced at me from the shadow of the trees, a half-luminous colour that vanished as he turned his head again.†
Chpt 9
- The tree-tops rose against the luminous blue sky in inky silhouette, and all below that outline melted into one formless blackness.†
Chpt 9
- He was crouched together into the smallest possible compass, his luminous green eyes turned over his shoulder regarding me.†
Chpt 16
- The sky had grown brighter, the setting moon was becoming pale and opaque in the luminous blue of the day.†
Chpt 19
- The daylight, the trailing glory of the sun, went streaming out of the sky, was drawn aside like some luminous curtain, and at last I looked into the blue gulf of immensity which the sunshine hides, and saw the floating hosts of the stars.†
Chpt 22
Definitions:
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(1)
(luminous) glowing or shining
(also used metaphorically to describe beauty or intelligence) -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, luminous can mean beautiful, inspiring, or beautifully clear and understandable.