As we drew near the city the curving long sweep of ramparts and towers was gay with fluttering flags and black with masses of people; and all the air was vibrant with the crash of artillery and gloomed with drifting clouds of smoke.
Mark Twain
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
“Keep that blade in its sheath!” The voice came from the open door at the end of the room, a vibrant and penetrating voice that brought them all up, staring.
Herbert, Frank
Dune
Cormac hasn’t asked me one single question about myself, no, I’ve just been treated to ‘A Hundred Great Saves Made by Cormac McLaggen’ nonstop ever since — oh no, here he comes!”She moved so fast it was as though she had Disapparated; one moment she was there, the next, she had squeezed between two guffawing witches and vanished.“Seen Hermione?” asked McLaggen, forcing his way through the throng a minute later.“No, sorry,” said Harry, and he turned quickly to join in Luna’s conversation, forgetting for a split second to whom she was talking.“Harry Potter!” said Professor Trelawney in deep, vibrant tones, noticing him for the first time.“Oh, hello,” said Harry unenthusiastically.“My dear boy!” she said in a very carrying whisper.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
But suddenly it seemed as if the speaker had begun pointing straight at him, as if he had singled him out particularly for his remarks; and so Jurgis became suddenly aware of the voice, trembling, vibrant with emotion, with pain and longing, with a burden of things unutterable, not to be compassed by words.
Upton Sinclair
The Jungle
Pris, vibrant with bliss, said, "It's okay up to a point."
Dick, Philip K.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
A moment later he was gone, leaving Susannah and Oy alone on the most vital and vibrant streetcorner in the entire universe.
Stephen King
Wolves of the Calla
Soon we felt them kindle: we leaned back, watching them move and speak, and vivify each other with mutual heat, till the air was vibrant, and in stammered phrases they experienced the first heave and thrust of notions which ran up beyond their sight.
T. E. Lawrence
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
The new escort, vibrant with repressed emotion, had taken him into a region deep beneath the plaza, a place not on any of the city charts Idaho had studied.
Frank Herbert
God Emperor of Dune
“There’s the last of that old skull and crossbones,” he said as he scattered the pieces upon the dark and disappearing waves of the stream; “but I should think it would poison the fishes.” The last gleam of white card and green ink was drowned and darkened; a faint and vibrant colour as of morning changed the sky, and the moon behind the grasses grew paler.
G. K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown
He felt their presence all about the house, pervading the air with the shades and echoes of still vibrant emotions.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Yossarian choked on his toast and eggs at the enormity of his error in tearing her long, lithe, nude, young vibrant limbs into any pieces of paper so impudently and dumping her down so smugly into the gutter from the curb.
Heller, Joseph
Catch-22