illuminingly

Updated: May 4, 2025

Now one ship decked in a multiplicity of jewels on this clear calm night would have been a beautiful sight but where there were forty-odd of them ! It was a sailor of the fleet, lurking in the shifting shadows of the bridge, that he might enjoy his surreptitious cigarette and not suffer disratement therefor, who reviewed the illuminations most illuminingly. "Man, but they do blaze out, don't they?

James B. (James Brendan) Connolly - The U-boat hunters