splendent

Example Sentences

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They had enticed the splendent light-fish into their caverns to give illumination.

From Seed of the Arctic Ice by Bates, Harry

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

Seest not the sheen Of links their splendent tresses fling?

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

It seemed that this splendent host must have been placed here by some magic hand, alert, vigorous, immaculate, eager for the battle.

From A Soldier of Virginia by Stevenson, Burton Egbert