Literary notes about prismatic (AI summary)
The word “prismatic” is employed in literature to evoke both a vivid display of light and a structured, multifaceted form. In narratives, it often paints natural scenes with dazzling arrays of color—as when wild-fowl dive amid glistening, prismatic displays on water [1] or when dewdrops scatter brilliant hues along a vast grassland [2]. In a more symbolic vein, it is used to suggest the dispersal of darkness into hope, as in a "prismatic lantern" that casts luminous refractions [3], or to illustrate a character’s transformation into a spectrum of shifting tints [4]. Even technical descriptions harness “prismatic” to underline precise, geometric qualities, revealing the crystalline structure of natural objects [5], [6].
- There was a bloom upon the trees, the waters glittered, the prismatic wild-fowl dived, breathed again, and again disappeared.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli - He noted the prismatic colors in all the dewdrops upon a million blades of grass.
— from An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce - Romance has not failed to endeavor to illuminate with her prismatic lantern the darkness of those nine mysterious years.
— from A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy - Betty told Lady Randolph that she was no longer a woman, but a colour scheme diffusing prismatic tints.
— from Brothers: The True History of a Fight Against Odds by Horace Annesley Vachell - The rays of electric light mix with this dazzling sheaf, every drop as it falls assuming the prismatic colors of the rainbow.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne - The sun was rising from the sea’s horizon, and touched with golden spangles the prismatic rugosities of the huge precipice.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
