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The term "leme" serves as a multifaceted literary device, often evoking the transient, striking quality of light. In some passages, it conveys a vivid, almost electrifying gleam—as with the blue leme of summer lightning that momentarily illuminates the western sky ([1]) or the flickering leme of pale lightning piercing a thick mist ([2]). In other contexts, its use shifts to a more metaphorical or critical edge, such as when a place or object is disparagingly described, likening it to an "eye-sore" ([3]). Additionally, the word is instrumental in rendering atmospheres imbued with ephemeral radiance, whether highlighting the eerie glow of a basin filled with flame ([4]) or emphasizing the unsteady, dramatic interplay of light and shadow in a nocturnal setting ([5]).
  1. The blue leme of summer lightning momentarily lit up the western sky.
    — from The Black Douglas by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
  2. The mist came yet thicker, and through it there shone, now and then, the flickering leme of pale lightning, that flashed about us all.
    — from The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
  3. Athenaeus vi. 272) estimate of 470,000 as the 1Pericles called Aegina the ``eye-sore'' (leme) of the Peiraeus.
    — from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
  4. The deep and wide basin between the hollow palms of the hills was filled with an eery leme of flame, flickering up from the ground.
    — from The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
  5. Soon all the courtyard was aglow with the red, unsteady leme which the skies gave back, while the moon and stars paled and went out.
    — from The Grey Man by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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