Word: glowed
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...been swallowed by farming and suburbia; most of it today lies in the Grose Wilderness - an area protected as part of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area which covers more than a million hectares of steep gorges, waterfalls, swamps and sandstone escarpments that, in the late afternoon sun, glow the color of warm toffee. From this vantage point, looking west to flat-topped Mount Tomah, the first peak Caley reached, eucalypt-green ridges roll away like swell on an uneasy sea. The leaves of huge gums shimmer in the wind. It looks just as impenetrable as Caley might have...
...when the rich brown, gold and silver-gray hues of wet bark glisten. Huge flowers adorn gnarled banksia trees so old they would have been sprouting when Caley passed by. Owls call to another in the dark, and the stars, which Caley thought he was seeing when he found glow-worms in Luminous Valley, glitter fiercely. In the end, lack of food forced Caley to turn back. He'd succeeded, but his feat remains little known today, perhaps because, as his biographer Joan Webb suspects, the outspoken and independent ways of this son of an English horse-dealer didn...
...methods of the survey all you want. But Yale’s incompetent academic flailing of late is universally imminent—like a pantheistic god, just one that sucks. Every fiber of the Yale’s physical and metaphysical existence is tinted with the fluctuating incandescent glow of never quite being good enough...
Last night students gathered in the home of Lowell House Master and Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Diana L. Eck to sing, pray and feast, marking the high-point of the yearly Hindu festival of lights. In the amber glow of dozens of diya (ceremonial candles), students sat cross-legged on the carpeted floor, chanting bhajans (devotional songs), reading excerpts from sacred texts and sharing stories about the festivals they had known in their childhood...
...life into a genre now dominated by hordes of CSI knockoffs. But is it worth tuning in for? Our suggestion: Curl up with a few Homicide: Life on the Street DVDs and wait out the months until Sopranos season six, when television’s healing warmth will glow brightly once again...