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Presently she slipped from him, starrily radiant, leaving her hands in his as she looked up.

From The Game and the Candle by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)

Raoul found Clotilde to be, for him, rather--what shall we say?--starry; starrily inaccessible; but Aurora was emphatically after his liking; he was delighted with Aurora.

From The Grandissimes by Cable, George Washington

Her lips trembled as she pleaded; her dark eyes besought him, shining starrily.

From The Broken Road by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

Mrs. Adair had to admit that seldom had her eyes shone so starrily, or the colour so freshly graced her cheeks.

From The Four Feathers by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

Early in April the service berry bush gleamed starrily along the watercourses, its hardy white blooms defying winter's lingering look.

From Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground by Skinner, Constance Lindsay