splendent
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Lo! how down they sweep To basic Good where, massing, they remount, Till, mid God's "Many Mansions," high they leap, Forming forever, joy's most splendent fount!
From Freedom, Truth and Beauty by Edward Doyle
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
The usual lustre of crystals of cassiterite is remarkably splendent, even adamantine.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
The triumph strode splendent over sea and shore, subduing waves and rocks to a path for its mighty entrance into that dark cave on the human coast.
From Malcolm by George MacDonald
Vpon hir Eares did hang two Sumptuous and Riche orientall Pearles, which to the artificiall order of hir hayre added a certen splendent brightnes.
From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter
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