That effulgent power, which governs our intellects, is the primitive element of water, the luſtre of gems and other glittering ſubſtances, the favour of trees and herbs, the thinking ſoul of living beings; … The ſupreme Brahme, ſo manifeſted, illumines the ſeven worlds; may he unite my ſoul to his own radiance (that is, to his own ſoul, which reſides effulgent in the ſeventh world, or manſion of truth).

I also, this morning, gave attention to the stars as seen through the Zodiacal Light, and found, even to 4ʰ 30ᵐ, when the effulgent Light below the zigzag lines is very strong, that with the naked eye I could readily make out stars of the 6th magnitude within the effulgent Light; …

Margaret, aged six, entered her kindergarten after many days' absence, with so effulgent a face as must kindle curiosity in the dullest.

Except for the faintest tinge of olive, her cheeks were colorless, yet they spoke of perfect health, and shone with that same pale, effulgent glow, like the reflection of a late sun.

James Iredell Waddell, a grandson of General Waddell and of General Nash and a descendant of the Moores and Davises, and uniting the best streams of patriotic blood, entered the naval service in 1841. His life was a spotless mirror, bright, effulgent with honor, adorned with virtue and with high attributes, while his person and his noble countenance recalled [William] Shakespeare's lines giving "the world assurance of a man."

God is one: about that there is a certain certitude, but He is both Absolute and Related, Immanent and Transcendent. … He is affulgent Light. He is Darkness within darkness. He is the Creator and also the destroyer of what He creates. And, then, He re-creates in order to re-destroy.

Even Western scholars who vouchsafe the Soviet Union a prospect of considerable improvement in innovation performance perceive unpassable systemic barriers that are likely to keep Soviet innovation less effulgent than Western. For example, Joseph Berliner identifies as the final bar; the exemption of Soviet enterprise from the necessity of risk through innovation.

The anarchists were drinking victory shots and making toasts because even though they'd never met with success before they surely knew it when they saw it or it found them. Snapcase, his beard effulgent with spilled drink, had become certain that school was out forever.

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