lambency
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Its climate has not the smart alpine tang of St. Moritz, but the balmy southern lambency of Italian Stresa, just across the lake.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eddring moved forward impetuously, feeling all the thrill of her presence; all the lambency of woman, planet-like, far-off, mysterious.
From The Law of the Land by Emerson Hough
Still there remained a dark lambency of anticipation.
From Women in Love by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Looking up, as she stood there stricken motionless, she saw him transfigured to a glowing lambency by the blaze of the setting sun full on his face; and he, staring down, saw her against it.
From Beggars on Horseback by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse
There was a core of intensity, intolerably bright; about that, lambency but no flame, in which I saw leaves and straws and fronds of fern flickering, spiring, heeling over and over.
From Lore of Proserpine by Maurice Henry Hewlett
‘I am perusing,’ answered the young gentleman, ‘the last work of the Herr Doctor Hohenstockwitz, cousin and librarian of your Prince here in Grünewald—a man of great erudition and some lambencies of wit.’
From Prince Otto, a Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson
Flares and flames of pale emerald, steady glowing of flame rubies, glints and lambencies of deepest sapphire, of wan sapphire, flickering opalescences, irised glitterings.
From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt
