splendent

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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

O she was worthy to be Queene of heaven; Her beauty, e're it suffred violence, Was like the Sunne in his Meridian Throne, Too splendent for weake eyes to gaze upon.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

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

And so the tiny Cadet-drillings have ended; long Files of Giants, splendent in gold-lace and grenadier-caps, have succeeded; and earnest work instead of mimic, in that matter, has begun.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Carlyle, Thomas

The splendent sun no splendour can display, Till on gross things he dash his broken ray, From cloud and tree and flower re-tossed in prismy spray.

From Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters by Thompson, Francis