Example Sentences

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The window with its nibbled paint Leers filmy and unluminous.

From Enamels and Cameos and other Poems by Lee, Agnes

A tragical combustion, long smoking and smouldering unluminous, has now burst into flame there.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

There is a peculiar yellow-red, dusty, unluminous, very dark, that can be profitably worn.

From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Cooke, Maud C.

Above all places, the unluminous combustion in Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin was fierce.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

Which entirely paralyzed Noailles and Company, or reduced them to mere hysterics, and excitement of the unluminous kind.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Carlyle, Thomas