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 hundred feet away the Shining One pulsed and spiralled in its evilly glorious lambency of sparkling plumes.

From The Moon Pool by Merritt, Abraham

It has none of the brilliant Orientalism of Balakirew and Cui, none of Rimsky-Korsakoff's soft felicity and lambency and light sensuousness.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul

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 Hewlett, Maurice Henry

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)