wonderglow

alternative wonder-glow · alternative wonder glow

1. no pluralA wondrous or glorious glow.

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

   1907, Martha Virginia Burton, Sons of the Sun, page 92

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   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 […]

   1860, 1888, T. Astley Atkins, Adriaen Van Der Donck

   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?

   1891, The Coming Day, volumes 1-2, page 123

   […] 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.

   1900, The Lamp, volume 3, page 216

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

   1915, Rena Cary Sheffield, On the Romany Road, page 66

   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.

   1916, Christian Science Sentinel, volume 19, page 377

   Synonyms: wondershine