resplendency
Example Sentences
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His courage failed him; to enter footsore, laden, and poorly dressed into the midst of such resplendency was to bring needless humiliation upon her he loved, if not to court repulse from her husband.
From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
But she, fortified by a woman's strongest bulwark, the sense of resplendency, appeared quite unconscious of herself.
From Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson
In fact, no one can deny that they add great resplendency to the merits of the saints, and, consequently, give great weight to the example they afford us.
From The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi by Father Candide Chalippe
Like bursting lava, I expand but to my own despair, and shine with the resplendency of 252:30 consuming fire.
From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
The suite followed in the other boats,--brown men and white, governors, ministers, and court dignitaries, in Windsor uniforms, but with an added resplendency of plumes, epaulettes, and gold lace.
From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
