splendent
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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
Those who know thee—once splendent in power and in pelf, King erstwhile in Zion—uplifting the hand, Shall curse thee, Zedekiah.
From Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes by Stefan Zweig
Seest not the sheen Of links their splendent tresses fling?
From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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
It has lofty galleries; wherefrom dames of honour, splendent in gaze d'or; foreign Diplomacies, and other gilt-edged white-frilled individuals to the number of two thousand,—may sit and look.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle