Example Sentences

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It sells palm oil to other countries and buys alcohol, arms and ammunition, thus exchanging a peaceful luminant and lubricant for the elements of moral and physical strife.

From A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State by Dorman, Marcus Roberts Phipps

Finally, in the year 1669, after a strong distillation of urine, he found in the recipient a luminant matter that has since been called phosphorus.

From History of Phosphorus by Farber, Eduard

The garden was dimly luminant with the promise of was that men discovered out there among dawn, yet not light enough to show what it the roses.

From Pink Gods and Blue Demons by Stockley, Cynthia

Moonrise, and a luminant coal sifts through the western grate of the world.

From Unmanned by Oliver, Stephen

He turned his eyes again to the sea just as a lovely light, pale golden and clear as topaz, opened suddenly in the sky, shedding a shower of luminant reflections on the waves.

From The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches by Corelli, Marie