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Example sentences for "luminary"

Lexicographically close words:
lumen; lumiere; lumina; luminance; luminaries; lumine; luminescence; luminescent; luminiferous; luminis
  1. For half a century Italy has now been represented by but one luminary of the first magnitude.

  2. For half a century Italy has now been represented by but one luminary of the first magnitude--VERDI.

  3. As has been already intimated, the paramount accomplishment of this modern luminary was his colossal development of orchestral resources.

  4. Near one of these the wandering luminary will probably flash out, "to amaze a wondering world.

  5. For this reason it received the name of the Star of Bethlehem, and many have fully accepted the theory which makes this variable luminary identical with the "Star of the East.

  6. Just such a luminary as Lottie Marsden had never appeared above his horizon, and her orbit seemed so eccentric that as yet he could not calculate it; but this element of uncertainty made observation all the more interesting.

  7. So that if the Clothes-Volume itself was too like a Chaos, we have now instead of the solar Luminary that should still it, the airy Limbo which by intermixture will farther volatilise and discompose it!

  8. If their unhappy victim fled to the rising of the sun, where the luminary of day seems to us first to ascend from the waves of the ocean, the power of the tyrant was still behind him.

  9. Is the luminary of the world thus for ever gone?

  10. Eight large or major planets, with their satellites, and a flock of minor planets or planetoids, are revolving round him as their common centre and luminary at various distances, but all in the same direction.

  11. The central luminary is, of course, the sun, and the others are the planets with their satellites.

  12. The great luminary himself was lost in a golden glamour, and a single bright star shone palely through a rosy mist, which covered all the southern sky, like a diamond seen through a bridal veil of gauze.

  13. Scarce a luminary of godliness existed, and it is not common in any age for a great work of the Spirit of God to be exhibited but under the conduct of some remarkable saint, pastor and reformers.

  14. Star after star had fallen until by the middle of the third century there was “scarcely left a luminary of godliness in existence.

  15. Milner says at this time, “Scarcely a luminary of godliness existed.

  16. Taking a vessel of copper and placing therein some cooked food after having mixed it with honey, one should offer it as Vali unto the rising moon on the evening of the day when that luminary is at full.

  17. Still it is pretty clear that this eccentric luminary will play the devil with their system.

  18. In the second number I stated that there had been for a long time a great legal luminary visible in the Pennsylvania heavens, which had suddenly disappeared.

  19. Paddy's idea was so excellent that I had adopted it and made a crooked telescope, by which I had found that luminary almost sixty degrees below our moral horizon.

  20. Our first inquiry, therefore, is, what principle in the spiritual world of Christianity, corresponds with this luminary in the world of matter.

  21. The moon," as regards apparent splendor, is the second great luminary in the visible heavens.

  22. The luminary is distinguished in older cards by chief rays that are waved and salient alternately and by secondary salient rays.

  23. Some eighteenth-century cards show the luminary on its waning side; in the debased edition of Etteilla, it is the moon at night in her plenitude, set in a heaven of stars; of recent years the moon is shown on the side of her increase.

  24. It is evident that the changes brought about in every Dispensation constitute the dark clouds that intervene between the eye of man’s understanding and the divine Luminary which shineth forth from the dayspring of the divine Essence.

  25. And you--you are my sun--the luminary of my life!

  26. M116) In India people attempt to absorb the vital influence of the moon by drinking water in which the luminary is reflected.

  27. Those who have enjoyed good health pray that it may be continued, and those who have been sick ascribe their illness to the coming of the luminary and beg her to take away bad health and give them good health instead.

  28. He refers to the ceremonies of alternate lamentation and joy as if they reflected the vicissitudes of the great luminary in his course through the sky.

  29. To both peoples apparently the brilliant luminary in the morning sky seemed the goddess of life and love come to mourn her departed lover or spouse and to wake him from the dead.

  30. Examine if the virtues of Mary are to you as that lesser luminary in whose light you walk on in the way that leads to Paradise.

  31. But that its darkness might be more tolerable, it also had its luminary in the person of the Most Holy Virgin, who remained with the disciples and the faithful, after the Ascension of her Divine Son.

  32. B sees a lovely luminary to light him to his lady-love, a hallowed eye half shut that watches with protecting radiance over her slumbers.

  33. It is the only luminary used here by the inhabitants, and it is exported to other parts of America and to France.

  34. When the mighty luminary approached within a few degrees of the tempest-tossed horizon, suddenly, a wonder!

  35. We see in light a principle which, if it has not its source in the sun, is certainly dependent upon that luminary for its manifestations and powers.

  36. Do you in good faith believe that Sirius Altair, Regulus, Aldebaran, all these suns are luminary only?

  37. It is absolutely essential to existence that the bright beams of the great luminary should fall on animal as well as plant.

  38. And it is very possible he was not disposed to admit that the great luminary whom he worshipped was inferior to the God of the Spaniards.

  39. The religion of the Peruvian, which directed him to the worship of that glorious luminary which is the best representative of the might and beneficence of the Creator, is perhaps the purest form of superstition that has existed among men.

  40. Like the great luminary which they adored, they operated by gentleness more potent than violence.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "luminary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    candle; celebrity; chief; constellation; cynosure; dignitary; eminence; figure; fire; flame; galaxy; genius; glim; hero; heroine; idol; illuminant; immortal; king; lamp; lantern; lead; leader; legend; light; lion; luminary; match; moon; name; notability; notable; paramount; personage; personality; principal; prodigy; somebody; star; sun; taper; torch; virtuoso; wonder; worthy