resplendency

Example Sentences

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That morning the stream rolled liquid sunlight; no greater resplendency could be seen on the horizon.

From A Love Episode by Zola, Émile

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 Hardy, Thomas

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 Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

The lady of the portrait must have been some twenty odd years; she was no simple maiden, no half-opened rosebud, but a woman in the full resplendency of her beauty.

From First Love (Little Blue Book #1195) And Other Fascinating Stories of Spanish Life by Alarcón, Pedro Antonio de

But she, fortified by a woman's strongest bulwark, the sense of resplendency, appeared quite unconscious of herself.

From Alice of Old Vincennes by Thompson, Maurice