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

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

The sky, flooded with moonlight, was of a wonderful lambency and depth; across the whole arch of heaven a band of cloud, fashioned strangely into carven shapes, defiled in solemn march.

From Maria Chapdelaine by Blake, W. H.

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)

At first all that I could see was a space filled with the saffron lambency.

From The Metal Monster by Merritt, Abraham