splendent

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They had enticed the splendent light-fish into their caverns to give illumination.

From Seed of the Arctic Ice by Bates, Harry

Seest not the sheen Of links their splendent tresses fling?

From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

It has lofty galleries; wherefrom dames of honour, splendent in gaze d'or; foreign Diplomacies, and other gilt-edged white-frilled individuals to the number of two thousand,—may sit and look.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

The triumph strode splendent over sea and shore, subduing waves and rocks to a path for its mighty entrance into that dark cave on the human coast.

From Malcolm by MacDonald, George

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 Stevenson, Burton Egbert