levin
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of levin
1200–50; Middle English levene, obscurely akin to Gothic lauhmuni (akin to Latin lūmen light)
Example Sentences
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His soul was like the night around us now, dark, and sultry, and silent, but lighted up by the red levin of wrath, and torn by the bellowings of thunder-passion.
From The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural by Rhys, Ernest
It was here, not in the Berenice, that the levin must fall; and he, John Gilbart, held it in his fingers.
From The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
The equinox of outraged earth shall blaze And flash its levin on your infamous might.
From Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers by Raemaekers, Louis
Nor need I wait for death, or for the levin In yonder cloud, to find the path to Heaven.
From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Mackay, Eric
In the eyeholes of the skull two opals flamed with an evil levin.
From The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Marquis, Don
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