lambency

Example Sentences

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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 Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)

It has none of the brilliant Orientalism of Balakirew and Cui, none of Rimsky-Korsakoff's soft felicity and lambency and light sensuousness.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul

They were both rayless and strangely—lightless; they threw no shadows nor did their lambency lessen the dimness.

From The Metal Monster by Merritt, Abraham

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 Merritt, Abraham