“The fire blazing in her dark and injured heart seemed to glow around her like a flame.”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
“Seen through the glow of a building orgasm, a woman seems to blaze with angelic glory.”
Source: Ringworld (1970), p. 165
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But look'd too near have neither heat nor light.”
Act IV, scene 4. Compare Distance.
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Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth