scintillantly

Updated: May 9, 2025

On Thursday, as he approached the castle, the last fires of sunset were burning in the sky behind it the long irregular mass of buildings stood out in varying shades of blue, against varying, dying shades of red: the grey stone, dark, velvety indigo; the pink stucco, pink still, but with a transparent blue penumbra over it; the white marble, palely, scintillantly amethystine.

Henry Harland - The Cardinal's Snuff-Box