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

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)

Still there remained a dark lambency of anticipation.

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

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

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.