lambency
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Its climate has not the smart alpine tang of St. Moritz, but the balmy southern lambency of Italian Stresa, just across the lake.
From Time Magazine Archive
Looking up, as she stood there stricken motionless, she saw him transfigured to a glowing lambency by the blaze of the setting sun full on his face; and he, staring down, saw her against it.
From Beggars on Horseback by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse
Now there was a movement—far, far away; a concentrating of the lambency; the dead-alive swayed, oscillated, separated—forming a long lane against whose outskirts they crowded with avid, hungry insistence.
From The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt
Glory of the poet, glow O’ the humorist who castigates his kind, Suave summer-lightning lambency which plays On stag-horned tree, misshapen crag askew, Then vanishes with unvindictive smile After a moment’s laying black earth bare.
From Browning and His Century by Helen Archibald Clarke
Still there remained a dark lambency of anticipation.
From Women in Love by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
‘I am perusing,’ answered the young gentleman, ‘the last work of the Herr Doctor Hohenstockwitz, cousin and librarian of your Prince here in Grünewald—a man of great erudition and some lambencies of wit.’
From Prince Otto, a Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson
Flares and flames of pale emerald, steady glowing of flame rubies, glints and lambencies of deepest sapphire, of wan sapphire, flickering opalescences, irised glitterings.
From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt
