http://wordie.org/words/coruscate Comments for the word 'Coruscate' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/coruscate#comments I'm sure she does at sunset. Certainly the sea around her does. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:49:04 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/coruscate#comments http://wordie.org/words/coruscate#comments Does Corsica coruscate? Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:39:36 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/coruscate#comments http://wordie.org/words/coruscate#comments "The result of which, apart from ubiquitous draughts, was sudden and intermittent bursts of sunshine, a dazzling and changeable light that made it almost impossible to see the tea-drinkers, so that when they were installed there, at tables crowded pair after pair the whole way along the narrow gully, shimmering and sparkling with every movement they made in drinking their tea or in greeting one another, it resembled a giant fish-tank or bow-net in which a fisherman has collected all his glittering catch, which, half out of water and bathed in sunlight, coruscate before one's eyes in an ever-changing <a href="/words/iridescence">iridescence</a>."<br /><br />-- Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Revised by D.J. Enright, p 536 of the Modern Library paperback edition Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:55:22 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/coruscate#comments http://wordie.org/words/coruscate#comments Sat, 28 Jul 2007 20:52:37 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/coruscate#comments http://wordie.org/words/coruscate#comments what the northern lights do Wed, 20 Dec 2006 02:10:00 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/coruscate#comments