splendent

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Radiant and serene, in the boundless calm of the heavens, the splendent lanterns seemed suspended on stationary craft peacefully rocked at anchor.

From The Strollers by Fisher, Harrison

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

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

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)

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