resplendency

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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 Hardy, Thomas

The world of being shineth, in this Day, with the resplendency of this Divine Revelation.

From The Advent of Divine Justice by Shoghi Effendi

"Zinsheimer!" repeated a stentorian voice behind them, as the proud possessor of that historic name appeared, gorgeous in the resplendency of an expansive shirt bosom and a white carnation in his button-hole.

From A Star for a Night A Story of Stage Life by Janis, Elsie

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

From A Love Episode by Zola, Émile

What tho' in worlds which own a single sun The sands of time grow dimmer as they run, Yet thine is my resplendency, so given To bear my secrets thro' the upper Heaven.

From Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works by Poe, Edgar Allan