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

He stood quite still, a figure orgulous and splendent.

From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

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

The triumph strode splendent over sea and shore, subduing waves and rocks to a path for its mighty entrance into that dark cave on the human coast.

From Malcolm by MacDonald, George

The usual lustre of crystals of cassiterite is remarkably splendent, even adamantine.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various