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ablaze |
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ablaze Adjective 1. on fire 2. brightly illuminated: the sky was ablaze with the stars shining bright 3. emotionally aroused: his eyes were ablaze with anger
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ablaze adjective 2. bright, brilliant, flashing, glowing, sparkling, illuminated, gleaming, radiant, luminous, incandescent, aglow adjective 3. passionate, excited, stimulated, fierce, enthusiastic, aroused, animated, frenzied, fervent, impassioned, fervid Translationsablaze with light → resplendissant de lumière ablaze with light → hell erleuchtet ablaze with light → risplendente di luce |
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Why, one branch of hawthorn against the sky promises more than all the summers of time can pay, and a pond ablaze with yellow lilies awakens such answering splendours and enchantments in mortal bosoms,--blazons, it would seem, so august a message from the hidden heart of the world,--that ever afterwards, for one who has looked upon it, the most fortunate human existence must seem a disappointment. Last Christmas Eve and all Christmas Day Jurgis had toiled on the killing beds, and Ona at wrapping hams, and still they had found strength enough to take the children for a walk upon the avenue, to see the store windows all decorated with Christmas trees and ablaze with electric lights. I was right, as appeared later; but in the meantime, the house being stifling hot and the little patch of sand inside the palisade ablaze with midday sun, I began to get another thought into my head, which was not by any means so right. |
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