lambency

Example Sentences

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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

A faint lambency still clung to the cliff.

From The Metal Monster by Merritt, Abraham

Glory of the poet, glow O’ the humorist who castigates his kind, Suave summer-lightning lambency which plays On stag-horned tree, misshapen crag askew, Then vanishes with unvindictive smile After a moment’s laying black earth bare.

From Browning and His Century by Clarke, Helen Archibald

Still there remained a dark lambency of anticipation.

From Women in Love by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

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 Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)