Example Sentences

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I found the passages and staircases of the Court-House flaringly lighted with gas, and the Court itself similarly illuminated.

From Three Ghost Stories by Dickens, Charles

And from a pale blonde she had become flaringly carrotty; so that a Titianesque creature seemed to have sprung from the little urchin-like girl of former days.

From His Masterpiece by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

A steel engraving of a man presumably between thirty and forty years of age, coatless, shirt flaringly open at the neck, and a copyright notice identifying Walter Whitman with the publication, furnished the only clues.

From Walt Whitman Yesterday and Today by Legler, Henry Eduard

In a good many houses the lights are out already—it is nearly eleven o'clock and this part of St. Louis goes to bed early—only the drugstores and the moving-picture theatres are still flaringly awake.

From Young People's Pride A Novel by Benét, Stephen Vincent

A flaringly illustrated New York paper was spread out upon his sofa.

From T. Tembarom by Burnett, Frances Hodgson