resplendency

Example Sentences

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The broad white envelope, emblazoned with the royal arms, fascinated Hans, not by its resplendency, but by the possibilities which it afforded.

From The Goose Girl by MacGrath, Harold

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

From A Love Episode by Zola, Émile

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

At which my countenance beams with the shiny resplendency of self-satisfaction.

From Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. by Anstey, F.

Yet thine is my resplendency, so given To bear my secrets thro' the upper Heaven.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 by Poe, Edgar Allan