Such lives as his are of necessity ignes fatui, playing lambently upon the mere surface of things but leaving no lasting mark. ❋ Unknown (2007)
And as they touched them there was the swift dissolution, the melting away into putrescence of flesh and bone that I had witnessed when the dart touched fruit that time I had saved Rador — and upon this the Medusae gorged; pulsing lambently; their wondrous colours shifting, changing, glowing stronger; elfin moons now indeed, but satellites whose glimmering beauty was fed by death; alembics of enchantment whose glorious hues were sucked from horror. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Medusae gorged; pulsing lambently; their wondrous colours shifting, changing, glowing stronger; elfin moons now indeed, but satellites whose glimmering beauty was fed by death; alembics of enchantment whose glorious hues were sucked from horror. ❋ Abraham Merritt (1913)
That tinge is what gives its strange glitter to his fooling; madness playing safely and lambently around the stoutest common sense. ❋ Arthur Symons (1905)
Leo was the only animal who did not seem very greatly perturbed, but even he was awake, and lay crouching at the extreme end of his tether, his eyes lambently aglow, and his tail softly beating the earth now and then. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
The rich masses of pale hair were luxuriously nestled around her shoulders and the blazing eyes flamed, lambently, under the black brows -- but that was all. ❋ Unknown (1881)
Instead of the fierce light beating about a throne, it played lambently upon a sty. ❋ John Morley (1880)
One day a boy who dwelt in the palace fell asleep in its portico, and as he lay there some attendants who passed by saw a flame playing lambently around his head. ❋ Charles Morris (1877)
As would appear from verse 33, the tongues of fire remained lambently glowing on each head ( 'which ye see'), and the whole hundred and twenty, thus strangely crowned, were pouring out rapturous praises, each in some strange tongue. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
They unfolded herself for her -- these friendly ones -- as she could not do; out of her bluntness grew a graciousness that lay softly over it; the cloud itself melted away and floated off; and Desire began to sparkle again more lambently. ❋ Unknown (1865)
McGregor, meanwhile, as if in recognition of the possibility of a multi-vehicle conceptual pile-up, has kept things lambently simple. ❋ Luke Jennings (2011)
Though he addressed Miss Thusa, his glances played lambently on Mittie's face, and told her the meaning of his words. ❋ Caroline Lee Hentz (1828)
We are concerned with the poet's presentment of the man ” of that strange soul whom he conceived of as having anticipated so far, and as having focussed all the vagrant speculations of the day into one startling beam of light, now lambently pure, now lurid with gross constituents. [ ❋ Sharp, William, 1855-1905 (1897)
We are concerned with the poet's presentment of the man -- of that strange soul whom he conceived of as having anticipated so far, and as having focussed all the vagrant speculations of the day into one startling beam of light, now lambently pure, now lurid with gross constituents. [ ❋ William Sharp (1880)
