scintilate

Updated: May 23, 2025

He came strolling back across the crisp leaves, the dappled sunshine playing over his face like the flicker of a smile. "Miles," he said, "my nerve is gone. Such things happen. I'm all in. Come over here, my friend, and look at the sun with me." The discomfited keeper obeyed. "Where ought that refulgent luminary to scintilate when I face Osprey Ledge?" "Sir?" "The sun. How do I hold it?"

Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers - The Fighting Chance