splendent
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O she was worthy to be Queene of heaven; Her beauty, e're it suffred violence, Was like the Sunne in his Meridian Throne, Too splendent for weake eyes to gaze upon.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
The splendent sun no splendour can display, Till on gross things he dash his broken ray, From cloud and tree and flower re-tossed in prismy spray.
From Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters by Francis Thompson
It seemed that this splendent host must have been placed here by some magic hand, alert, vigorous, immaculate, eager for the battle.
From A Soldier of Virginia by Burton Egbert Stevenson
The usual lustre of crystals of cassiterite is remarkably splendent, even adamantine.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
Vpon hir Eares did hang two Sumptuous and Riche orientall Pearles, which to the artificiall order of hir hayre added a certen splendent brightnes.
From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter
