The land glowed with that peculiar lambency of the desert dawn. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock]
At first all that I could see was a space filled with the saffron lambency. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
Like a cloud moving across the sun, sadness dimmed the lambency in her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Ricochet]
One pulsed and spiralled in its evilly glorious lambency of sparkling plumes. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
Whatever lay behind the gem™s lambency, the darkness in the ring, refused to lie quiet. From Wordnik.com. [Chosen Of The Gods]
He wanted leisure to see the rhapsody of every small movement under the lambency of both sun and moon. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
Moonlight lit the slope before her, and streetlights, and a certain lambency of the grass blades themselves. From Wordnik.com. [War for the Oaks]
They were both rayless and strangely — lightless; they threw no shadows nor did their lambency lessen the dimness. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
The ferry station, a floating wooden structure painted blue and white, creaked on currents glinting with the copper lambency of the expiring day. From Wordnik.com. [Escape to Old Russia] Reference
Not the stuff of beauty, not even the body of beauty, but a lambency, the warm, white flame of a single life, revealing itself in contours that one might touch: a body!. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference
Now there was a movement — far, far away; a concentrating of the lambency; the dead-alive swayed, oscillated, separated — forming a long lane against whose outskirts they crowded with avid, hungry insistence. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
Because, knowing it, I could not fail to recognize the answering stir within the Mahrkagir himself; the tender line of his mouth, the lambency of his gaze, all announcing as loud as trumpets the dawning of that which he had never known, of that sacred mystery which is the province of Blessed Elua himself. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
Still there remained a dark lambency of anticipation. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Love] Reference
Rimsky-Korsakoff's soft felicity and lambency and light sensuousness. From Wordnik.com. [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference
Under the pearly lambency of a single streetlight she saw 50 or 60 Santas each holding a hand bell. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
A hundred feet away the Shining One pulsed and spiralled in its evilly glorious lambency of sparkling plumes. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
A hundred feet away the Shin-ing One pulsed and spiralled in its evilly glorious lambency of sparkling plumes. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
Eddring moved forward impetuously, feeling all the thrill of her presence; all the lambency of woman, planet-like, far-off, mysterious. From Wordnik.com. [The Law of the Land] Reference
Bordereau's talk, a strange mocking lambency which must have been a part of her adventurous youth and which had outlived passions and faculties. From Wordnik.com. [The Aspern Papers] Reference
Instead of being smoothly developed through its 43 minutes, Blue lambency Downward clearly has two songs that literally hold the album together: the opener (title track) and the closer. From Wordnik.com. [Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website] Reference
Now there was a movement -- far, far away; a concentrating of the lambency; the dead-alive swayed, oscillated, separated -- forming a long lane against whose outskirts they crowded with avid, hungry insistence. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
Now there was a movement -- far, far away; a concentrat-ing of the lambency; the dead-alive swayed, oscillated, sep-arated -- forming a long lane against whose outskirts they crowded with avid, hungry insistence. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
In the moralist who aspires to move and win men by their best side instead of their worst, the absence of this hardness and the presence of a certain lambency and play even in the exposition of truths of perfect assurance, are essential conditions of psychagogic quality. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Miscellanies (Vol 2 of 3) Essay 1: Vauvenargues] Reference
The allusion to my arbor was irreverent; it confirmed the impression I had already received that there was a flicker of impertinence in Miss Bordereau's talk, a strange mocking lambency which must have been a part of her adventurous youth and which had outlived passions and faculties. From Wordnik.com. [The Aspern Papers] Reference
Its seat was in her eyes, which many thought not at all beautiful, for they were like those gems called aquamarine, of a puzzling tint varying from blue to green, lustrous and lapping the beholder with their gentle lambency, except when passion moved her, when I have seen them glow with a menacing light as though they might shoot forth green flames. From Wordnik.com. [Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)] Reference
A faint lambency still clung to the cliff. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
The short, uneasy heave of waters in among the kelpy rocks, flowing from no swell or furrow on the misty glass of sea, but like a pulse of discontent, and longing to go further; after the turn, the little rattle of invaded pebbles, the lithe relapse and soft, shampooing lambency of oarweed, then the lavered boulders pouring gritty runnels back again, and every basined outlet wavering toward another inlet; these, and every phase of each innumerable to-and-fro, made or met their impress in her fluctuating misery. From Wordnik.com. [Frida, or, The Lover's Leap, A Legend Of The West Country From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore] Reference
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