Meaning of wonderglow | Babel Free

Definitions

A wondrous or glorious glow.

no-plural

Examples

“And now his parents begin to catch from him the wonderglow: Mother Mary's own birth is described as a miracle, and we hear much about her holy girlhood, how, when three years old, she was taken to the Temple to be brought up, and on the third step of the altar […]”

“How is it that so noble a type of humanity has become strange to us ! that Moses and Isaiah no longer speak to us as man to man, but as though from the wonderglow of the Transfiguration mount to the toiling throng in the plain below?”

“[…] and the occultism of the inner life growing out of a pure heart, all set in a wonder-glow of duty and adventure and the magic of a loving home, make a story, whatever the critics may say, that lives in the heart.”

“[…] Spoke through the clear-eyed Persian wanderings, Or shone in Sanscrit lily's wonder glow!”

“I would not ask that life Should be all sunlight. No! When driftwood holds within Its flames a wonder-glow!”

“I sometimes wish we could wipe out the history of the last two thousand years and just get back to that manger and see the babe at its mother's breast and feel the wonder-glow in the mother's heart.”

“Even in the very presence of death, Judy remembered the wonderglow on Olive's drab face when the girl had mentioned the baby who would come to Rogues' Harbor in the winter.”

“Then, the wonder-glow of evening, Lowlands bathed in sunset lights, Purple shadows climb the mountains, Rise to fade in rosy heights.”

“[…] for the sunshine coming through them made a wonder-glow all over the dining room.”

“There is in his Journals a morning light, a spontaneity, a wonder-glow as of an observer tiptoe on the horizon of Eden.”

“It would be natural, I suppose he thought, to survey my 42-year career in Strand Electric in a wonder-glow of technical achievement.”

“They ignored him, caught in the wonderglow that was ill-advised lust.”

“There, captured in the wonderglow, sterilized and motionless, were all the things that had ravaged him and finally left him lame.”

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