splendent

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I looked, and saw: before her, cast from unseen heavenly mirror, stood the reflection of herself, and beside it a form of splendent beauty, She trembled, and sank again on the floor helpless.

From Lilith, a romance by MacDonald, George

Vpon hir Eares did hang two Sumptuous and Riche orientall Pearles, which to the artificiall order of hir hayre added a certen splendent brightnes.

From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by Painter, William

Even when he gazed into her blue eyes he was conscious of a more flaming glory than lay in the heavens of their depths; a splendent maze that shed a brightness around her.

From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart

It occurs in splendent rhombohedral crystals, and in massive and earthy forms; — the last called red ocher.

From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section F, G and H by Project Gutenberg

Seest not the sheen Of links their splendent tresses fling?

From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir