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Starlike   Listen
adjective
Starlike  adj.  
1.
Resembling a star; stellated; radiated like a star; as, starlike flowers.
2.
Shining; bright; illustrious. "The having turned many to righteousness shall confer a starlike and immortal brightness."





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"Starlike" Quotes from Famous Books



... white, with cuffs of skunk's fur round the ankles to represent the death mask symbol, relieving the edges of the buckskin moccasins—in all this you have the notes that are necessary for the color balance of the idea of solemnity presented to the eye. You find even the white starlike splashes here and there on backs, breasts and arms coinciding splendidly with the flecks of eagles-down that quiver in the wind down their black bodies, and the long black hair of the accompanying hunter, as flecks of foam would rise from waterfalls of dark mountain streams; and ...
— Adventures in the Arts - Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets • Marsden Hartley
... that soothed your fears Vanished like a vanished flame, Save the line where shines your name Starlike ...
— Helen of Troy and Other Poems • Sara Teasdale
... we fish, and at eve we stand On long bare islands of yellow sand. And when the sun sinks slowly down, And the great rock-walls grow dark and brown, When the purple river rolls fast and dim, And the ivory Ibis starlike skim, Wing to wing ...
— Nonsense Books • Edward Lear
... they stepped, they came at length to a little summerhouse. It was covered with a thick jessamin vine; and the mysterious, languorous perfume of its starlike flowers filled the narrow resting-place with the very atmosphere of love. They sat down there, and in a few moments the seal was broken and Hyde's heart found out all the sweetest words that love could speak. Cornelia trembled; she blushed, she ...
— The Maid of Maiden Lane • Amelia E. Barr


Words linked to "Starlike" :   starry


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