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  • But the scene here is not the play of sunbeams or the magic glory of the prismal waters.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various

  • A rainbow, a fleecy mist over the lake, made prismal by the sunlight,

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various

  • In its prevalent color it had, indeed, the dazzle and flash of the ruby; but out from the mass of the molten red, broke coruscations of all prismal hues, shooting, shifting, in a play that made the wavelets themselves seem living things, sensible of their joy.

    The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English Julian Hawthorne 1890

  • In its prevalent colour it had, indeed, the dazzle and flash of the ruby; but out from the mass of the molten red, broke coruscations of all prismal hues, shooting, shifting, in a play that made the wavelets them selves seem living things, sensible of their joy.

    A Strange Story — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • All round this spoilt darling of Material Nature were the aids and appliances of Intellectual Science, -- books and telescopes and crucibles, with the light of day coming through a small circular aperture in the boarded casement, as I had constructed the opening for my experimental observation of the prismal rays.

    A Strange Story — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • In its prevalent colour it had, indeed, the dazzle and flash of the ruby; but out from the mass of the molten red, broke coruscations of all prismal hues, shooting, shifting, in a play that made the wavelets them selves seem living things, sensible of their joy.

    A Strange Story — Volume 08 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • All round this spoilt darling of Material Nature were the aids and appliances of Intellectual Science, -- books and telescopes and crucibles, with the light of day coming through a small circular aperture in the boarded casement, as I had constructed the opening for my experimental observation of the prismal rays.

    A Strange Story — Volume 08 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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