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1. But round the hostess scintillate
2. I will be in a tank in the middle of the magnificent drawing-room, and I will scintillate with witticisms which I will prepare in the morning
1. The clinking and rattling of the glasses and pewter pots as they were being washed, and the gurgling noise made by the beer as it poured into the drinking vessels from the taps of the beer engine, whose handles were almost incessantly manipulated by the barman, the Old Dear and the glittering landlady, whose silken blouse, bejewelled hair, ears, neck and fingers scintillated gloriously in the blaze of the gaslight
2. The high colour of his cheeks pushed upwards even to his forehead, where it scattered itself in a few formless patches of pale red; and on his hairless face there scintillated restlessly the polished lenses and the bright gilt rims of the glasses which screened his delicate and restless eyes
3. When the day grew quite strong and commonplace these dried off her; moreover, Tess then lost her strange and ethereal beauty; her teeth, lips, and eyes scintillated in the sunbeams and she was again the dazzlingly fair dairymaid only, who had to hold her own against the other women of the world
4. What struggle there was in him between Nature and Grace in this interval, I cannot tell: only singular gleams scintillated in his eyes, and strange shadows passed over his face
5. He wore but a single article of clothing or adornment, a small collar of gold from which depended upon his chest a great ornament as large as a dinner plate set solid with huge diamonds, except for the exact center which was occupied by a strange stone, an inch in diameter, that scintillated nine different and distinct rays; the seven colors of our earthly prism and two beautiful rays which, to me, were new and nameless
1. The sky scintillates with bright twinkling stars, and the Milky Way stands out so clearly that it looks as if it had been polished and rubbed over with snow for the holidays…
1. Scintillating white lines spray across the eye,
2. They were crammed with books on property taxes, real estate law, underwriting, and other scintillating topics
3. The conversation was a scintillating blend of weather, politics, gossip, invective at a particularly offending, ‘Member’ of the Opposition; whom I wasn’t familiar with; and puckish jokes from Jennifer and her sisters three
4. Sunlight glittered on the wet grass like stars scintillating in a night sky of absolute clarity
5. Talking about work was his idea of scintillating après sex conversation
6. It only pissed me off as the bolts hit me and flared in scintillating lights
7. She looked at Jeff, eyes scintillating
8. The woman’s smile was so scintillating it was difficult not to notice her, and the way the man looked at the woman, Lucia could tell he loved her dearly
9. Now it only reminded her that her mother was not there to share in its scintillating beauty
10. is thin, to say the least, but Wilde brings it alive through his scintillating
11. She didn’t even come up to his shoulder, but the fire in her eyes and her scintillating aura of defiance and determination had captivated his attention
12. “I’m quite fond of the scintillating phrase, ‘Holy Shit,’” Visola offered
13. “ Right now, the scintillating scent of fine food is calling my taste-buds and stomach to dinner
14. “ Right now, the scintillating scent of fine food is calling my taste buds and stomach to dinner
15. Snowdrifts melted as hail evaporated on the heat blur of an increasingly scintillating glow
16. I couldn’t even turn to my scintillating
17. Yes! There is an undertaking to fulfil & we have to fight hard at making it a life, that is a scintillating find - a life worthy of research & reckoning - a bomb of big heart
18. And further, in decomposing the colour rays that come to the eye and painting in pure colour, while great addition was made to the power of expressing light, yet by destroying the definitions and enveloping everything in a scintillating atmosphere, the power to design in a large manner was lost with the wealth of significance that the music of line can convey
19. creature whose skin was a living mosaic of scintillating colour and it was unusual for me to
20. And because of the scintillating and reflective effects of the opal, and the
21. scintillating burnished bronze skin
22. A new kingdom of expression came into being, and the three highest planes and the three lower were brought into a scintillating interchange
23. Her present countenance had a wild vindictiveness in its white cheek, and a bloodless lip and scintillating eye; and she retained in her closed fingers a portion of the locks she had been grasping
24. The Scintillating reservoirs of the Nef, overflowing after several weeks of uninterrupted sunlight, were a truly magnificent sight from the air and it is therefore unfortunate that Twoflower and Rincewind did not happen to glance in that direction
25. Meditations of evolution increasingly vaster: of the moon invisible in incipient lunation, approaching perigee: of the infinite lattiginous scintillating uncondensed milky way, discernible by daylight by an observer placed at the lower end of a cylindrical vertical shaft 5000 ft deep sunk from the surface towards the centre of the earth: of Sirius (alpha in Canis Maior) 10 lightyears (57,000,000,000,000 miles) distant and in volume 900 times the dimension of our planet: of Arcturus: of the precession of equinoxes: of Orion with belt and sextuple sun theta and nebula in which 100 of our solar systems could be contained: of moribund and of nascent new stars such as Nova in 1901: of our system plunging towards the constellation of Hercules: of the parallax or parallactic drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving wanderers from immeasurably remote eons to infinitely remote futures in comparison with which the years, threescore and ten, of allotted human life formed a parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity
26. The optical reflection of several inverted volumes improperly arranged and not in the order of their common letters with scintillating titles on the two bookshelves opposite
27. Pearl set forth, at a great pace, and, as Hester smiled to perceive, did actually catch the sunshine, and stood laughing in the midst of it, all brightened by its splendor, and scintillating with the vivacity excited by rapid motion
28. I’d hate for you to miss any of the scintillating conversation!
29. "Excellent, Watson! You are scintillating this evening
30. I looked old in the photograph, but it contained the same scintillating light so I was content
31. Which was why she tried not to mention work, hewing to such comparatively scintillating topics as weather, sports, and that old standby, real estate
32. Maybe that was even a good thing, because two and a half months after the last time something really had changed, she still felt a jolt of loss every time she set foot in her building, a kind of gamma signature scintillating through the metal partition between her mailbox and Richard’s, and radiating from behind what she still thought of as his door
33. On the contrary he gazed joyfully, his eyes moist with tears, at this bright comet which, having traveled in its orbit with inconceivable velocity through immeasurable space, seemed suddenly- like an arrow piercing the earth- to remain fixed in a chosen spot, vigorously holding its tail erect, shining and displaying its white light amid countless other scintillating stars
34. ‘Yet here she is lying at my feet, with her golden domes and crosses scintillating and twinkling in the sunshine
35. Her present countenance had a wild vindictiveness in its white cheek, and a bloodless lip and scintillating eye; and she retained in her closed fingers a portion of the locks she had been
36. “See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!” He held out his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric point in the dark hollow of his hand
37. " How greedily I gazed upon the gaming-table, with its scattered louis d'or, ten-gulden pieces, and thalers; upon the streams of gold as they issued from the croupier's hands, and piled themselves up into heaps of gold scintillating as fire; upon the ell—long rolls of silver lying around the croupier
38. On the contrary he gazed joyfully, his eyes moist with tears, at this bright comet which, having traveled in its orbit with inconceivable velocity through immeasurable space, seemed suddenly—like an arrow piercing the earth—to remain fixed in a chosen spot, vigorously holding its tail erect, shining and displaying its white light amid countless other scintillating stars
39. “Yet here she is lying at my feet, with her golden domes and crosses scintillating and twinkling in the sunshine