resplendency

Example Sentences

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In fact, no one can deny that they add great resplendency to the merits of the saints, and, consequently, give great weight to the example they afford us.

From The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi by Chalippe, Father Candide

The resplendency of its light enchanted them, its pure softness delighted them, its perfect regularity astonished them.

From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward

But she, fortified by a woman's strongest bulwark, the sense of resplendency, appeared quite unconscious of herself.

From Alice of Old Vincennes by Thompson, Maurice

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

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