| 1. | The fire burned brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed and passed in our glasses. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 2. | As Mars approached opposition, Lavelle of Java set the wires of the astronomical exchange palpitating with the amazing intelligence of a huge outbreak of incandescent gas upon the planet. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 3. | Dense black smoke was leaping up to mingle with the steam from the river, and as the Heat-Ray went to and fro over Weybridge its impact was marked by flashes of incandescent white, that gave place at once to a smoky dance of lurid flames. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 4. | Here gush the sparkles incandescent Like scattered showers of golden sand-- But, see in all their height, at present, The rocky ramparts blazing stand. - from Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| 5. | should have depreciated that solar body, saying that it was of the nature of incandescent stone, and the one who opposed him as to that error was not far wrong. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 6. | Other eyewitnesses depose that they observed an incandescent object of enormous proportions hurtling through the atmosphere at a terrifying velocity in a trajectory directed southwest by west. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |