Daughter leaving party after irruption by number rather lit up

Usage examples of shining.

I came out, Shining Knife had evoked local HQ on the annular phone and was reporting in Middle Sumerian.

All-seeing Eye be the centre of many concentric circles, beholding equally in perspective the circumference of each, and for accordance with human periods of time measuring off segments by converging radii: separately marked on each segment of the wheel within wheel, in the way of actual fulfilment, as well as type and antitype, will appear its satisfied word of prophecy, shining onward yet as it becomes more and more final, until time is melted in eternity.

Simon had all the more opportunity of shining at the bar in the arrondissement of Arcis because he was the only barrister, solicitors pleading their own cases in these petty localities.

Beyond the short spire and its shining cock, rose the balls and stars and arrowy vanes of the House, glittering in gold and sunshine.

He was astounded by the beauty of her thick fur and the shining splendor of her strange, haunting eyes.

He remembered the sound of TIAMAT as the initiates spoke the word for the first time, and remembered the tale the Worshipful Master told them of the sacred origins of the order, of Guiseppe Balsamo, called Cagliostro, and the secret entrusted him by the Shining Brother in an English wood.

By the time Yama had waded to shore, the coracle was already far off, a black speck on the shining plane of the river, making a long, curved path toward a raft of banyan islands far from shore.

March, and though the sun was shining brightly outside, and the old porter wore his linen jacket, as if it were already spring, there was a cold draught down the staircase, and the Baroness instinctively made haste up the steps, and was glad when she reached the big swinging door covered with red baize and studded with smart brass nails, which gave access to the grand apartment.

He had seen her work the barque with her shining black head bent low over the worsted likeness of the Holy Family.

Behind him appeared the genial face of Senor Perkins, shining with the benignant courtesy of a master of ceremonies.

Suddenly they found themselves on the edge of the town of Berwick, walled and ramparted like a fortress, with red roofs shining agreeably in the morning sun.

His shirt and arms were bespeckled with red, but to her he looked as resplendent as a knight in shining armor.

It is full moon here, and last night I was out on the pergola for hours, staring away at the shining blankness that hides so much.

They drew rein to the right, and so rode in a little cloud of dust along the Strand Street towards London town, with the breeze blowing merrily, and the sunlight shining as sweetly and blithesomely as though they were riding to a wedding rather than to a grim and dreadful ordeal that meant either victory or death.

Down there somewhere lay Bottommost, barely visible, shining sometimes at noonglow as the merest thread.