far-shining

O Muse Calliope, daughter of Zeus, begin to sing of glowing Helios whom mild-eyed Euryphaessa, the far-shining one, bare to the Son of

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

Voltaire's burning and far-shining spirit no sooner struck upon the genius of the time, seated dark and dead like the black stone of

Voltaire 2007

People away down yonder in the river-bottoms see these peaks dim and far-shining, as though they cut through thick night; but we, up among them here, find the night wide, filled with a pale starlight that has softened for itself out of the darkness overhead a great space up towards heaven.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various

Oliver is gone; and with him England's Puritanism, laboriously built together by this man, and made a thing far-shining, miraculous to its own Century, and memorable to all the Centuries, soon goes.

The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education

He is the "far-shining radiant star of the church", the "most inspired guide of the Orthodox", "thrice blessed speaker for God",

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

African forest; she was smiling, and had a far-shining lantern in her hand.

Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Arthur Shearly Cripps 1910

Lope himself, so radiant, far-shining, has not proved to be a sun or star of the firmament; but is as good as lost and gone out; or plays at best in the eyes of some few as a vague aurora-borealis, and brilliant ineffectuality.

Paras. 1-24 1909

A magnificent, far-shining man; more expert in all "bodily exercises," as the Norse called them, than any man had ever been before him, or after was.

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

He was sincerely of opinion that he was a City clerk, living in Shepherd's Bush -- having forgotten the mysteries and the far-shining glories of the kingdom which was his by legitimate inheritance.

The House of Souls Arthur Machen 1905

No longer dreading the rayless night-mist, sail towards me confidently, O seafarers; for all wanderers I light my far-shining torch, memorial of the labours of the Asclepiadae.

Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902