The fire burned its steady, slow flame, and phantoms danced in its incandescent core.
Stephen King
The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1)
Her pale, doughy face turned an ugly, patchy violet.“When did you do this?” she asked, her voice trembling slightly.“Last Hogsmeade weekend,” said Harry.She looked up at him, incandescent with rage, the magazine shaking in her stubby fingers.“There will be no more Hogsmeade trips for you, Mr. Potter,” she whispered.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
As Mars approached opposition, Lavelle of Java set the wires of the astronomical exchange palpitating with the amazing intelligence of a huge outbreak of incandescent gas upon the planet.
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
Incandescent rainbows shone above it, blue, red, and golden lights played about it; but the stream itself was white, ineffable.
Upton Sinclair
The Jungle
Other eyewitnesses depose that they observed an incandescent object of enormous proportions hurtling through the atmosphere at a terrifying velocity in a trajectory directed southwest by west.
James Joyce
Ulysses
Tempers were short and bodies restless in the incandescent gorge whose granite peaks radiated the sun in a myriad shimmering points of light, and into the depths of whose tortuous bed no wind could come to relieve the slow saturation of the air with heat.
T. E. Lawrence
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
She was a tall, strapping girl with long hair and incandescent blue veins converging populously beneath her cocoa-colored skin where the flesh was most tender, and she kept cursing and shrieking and jumping high up into the air on her bare feet to keep right on hitting him on the top of his head with the spiked heel of her shoe.
Heller, Joseph
Catch-22