splendent
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He stood quite still, a figure orgulous and splendent.
From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Sir Max Beerbohm
They had enticed the splendent light-fish into their caverns to give illumination.
From Seed of the Arctic Ice by Harry Bates
It occurs in splendent rhombohedral crystals, and in massive and earthy forms; — the last called red ocher.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section F, G and H by Project Gutenberg
O she was worthy to be Queene of heaven; Her beauty, e're it suffred violence, Was like the Sunne in his Meridian Throne, Too splendent for weake eyes to gaze upon.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
The splendent sun no splendour can display, Till on gross things he dash his broken ray, From cloud and tree and flower re-tossed in prismy spray.
From Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters by Francis Thompson
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