splendent

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They had enticed the splendent light-fish into their caverns to give illumination.

From Seed of the Arctic Ice by Bates, Harry

It seemed that this splendent host must have been placed here by some magic hand, alert, vigorous, immaculate, eager for the battle.

From A Soldier of Virginia by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

He stood quite still, a figure orgulous and splendent.

From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

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

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 Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)