| 1. | Bright effluence of bright essence increate. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | And, as if the gloom of the earth and sky had been but the effluence of these two mortal hearts, it vanished with their sorrow. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 3. | The sempiternal effluence streams abroad Spreading, wherever charity extends. - from The Divine Comedy, Complete by Dante Alighieri |
| 4. | And the power which the eye possesses is a sort of effluence which is dispensed from the su. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 5. | I remember it now, and I know that it was the effluence of fine intellect, of true courage it lit up her marked lineaments, her thin face, her sunken grey eye, like a reflection from the aspect of an angel. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |