Lexicographical Neighbors of Lustrousness
Literary usage of Lustrousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought: A Treatise on Pure and Applied by William Thomson (1863)
"... but at the same time, less accurate form— lustrousness belongs to our notion
of metals, Being a metal is part of the notion of Indium ..."
2. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1895)
"Helping the utterance of my soul's full choice, Will be the words made richer by
just use, And have new meaning in their lustrousness. You know these jewels ..."
3. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Arthur Stedman (1894)
"... glory of radiant wrinkles, in the centre of which glowed two small globes,
like opals, but with a dusky lustrousness that no opal ever yet attained. ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1857)
"According to Pliny, too, a very beautiful flax was produced near Tarraco (Tarragona),
in Nearer Spain, its lustrousness being ascribed to the virtues of the ..."
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