Literary notes about fulgent (AI summary)
The term "fulgent" is often employed in literature to evoke a vivid sense of radiant light and mesmerizing brilliance. Writers use the word to describe everything from the ethereal glow of a character—as when a girl's beauty is rendered in flashes of pearl ([1])—to the dazzling splendor of nature, such as sunlit landscapes and star-studded skies ([2], [3], [4]). In some contexts it highlights a metaphorical inner luminosity, a burst of self-assured light as characters momentarily bask in their own glow ([5]), while in other passages it contributes to a grand, almost divine, ambiance that elevates both setting and spirit ([6], [7]). This versatile descriptor thereby transforms ordinary scenes into compelling, almost otherworldly visions of light and life ([8], [9]).
- She is fulgent in flashes of pearl, the breeze with her breathing is sweet, But fly from the face of the girl—there is death in the fall of her feet!
— from The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Henry Kendall - Through the gorse covert bounds the deer:— The gorse, whose latest splendours won Make all the fulgent wolds appear Bright as the pastures of the sun.
— from May Carols by Aubrey De Vere - A more crystalline night, more full of fulgent stars, was never seen, stars everywhere, but mostly scattered in large sparkles on the snow.
— from Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by John Addington Symonds - Let the moon with her soft and silent light watch over me; let dawn spread its fulgent splendor; let the wind moan with solemn murmur.
— from The Story of the Philippines Natural Riches, Industrial Resources, Statistics of Productions, Commerce and Population; The Laws, Habits, Customs, Scenery and Conditions of the Cuba of the East Indies and the Thousand Islands of the Archipelagoes of India and Hawaii, With Episodes of Their Early History; The Eldorado of the Orient; Personal Character Sketches of and Interviews with Admiral Dewey, General Merritt, General Aguinaldo and the Archbishop of Manila; History and Romance, Tragedies and Traditions of our Pacific Possessions; Events of the War in the West with Spain, and the Conquest of Cuba and Porto Rico by Murat Halstead - For a little while he would take off the well-worn mask of humility and bask in the fulgent rays of his own light.
— from The City of Masks by George Barr McCutcheon - Accedant ad Christum qui virtutis gloria fulgent!
— from Letters of Samuel Rutherford(Third Edition) by Samuel Rutherford - Mahomet came to them and recited Sura liii—The Star—a fulgent psalm in praise of God and heavenly joys.
— from Mahomet, Founder of Islam by Gladys M. Draycott - A wreath of light his fulgent brows array'd, That, shifting, with a thousand colours play'd.
— from Gustavus Vasaand other poems by William Sidney Walker - ——Down a while He sat, and round about him saw unseen: At last as from a cloud his fulgent head And shape star-bright appear'd—— ——all amaz'd
— from The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume 1 (of 3) by Henry Fuseli
