Noun : the radiance of the tropical sun. ,the radiance of her expression. From Dictionary.com.
Neville too watched his rival, and was puzzled at his radiancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
The radiancy of their life and teaching was to penetrate the surrounding gloom. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 07, July, 1889] Reference
Most of all, that man inspired fortitude by the hope that beamed in his eyes, and by the radiancy of his smile. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
But it was noticed by many that Lincoln's face had not the joyous radiancy of hope which it had formerly worn; it was positively haggard. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
There was a peculiar radiancy to his ministry which issued from this alacrity, the special glow that surrounds all lives that are nobly unselfish. From Wordnik.com. [Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati] Reference
His holiness, His grace, His love, His mercy: there are no dark corners where uncleanness hides; everything shines with undimmed and speckless radiancy!. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Here was a faint, diffused radiancy, which they hailed like daylight; by that they pushed the horse to a good pace and began to rattle along merrily in the direction of the town. From Wordnik.com. [The Body-Snatcher] Reference
He contracts the ethereal world, deadens radiancy. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
And then look away as if dazzled by her radiancy. From Wordnik.com. [By What Authority?] Reference
When she looked again, a radiancy seemed to envelop her. From Wordnik.com. [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference
Who dressed the face of heaven with stars in brightest radiancy. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
Unclouded sunlight enveloped sea and shore in a bath of purest radiancy. From Wordnik.com. [House of Mirth] Reference
She had not come to him out of cloistral purity, out of perfect radiancy. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
In its reflected radiancy for the first time he saw her features clearly. From Wordnik.com. [The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel] Reference
Then the radiancy of everything twitched and vanished, as a bubble bursts. From Wordnik.com. [Jurgen A Comedy of Justice] Reference
In daylight radiancy and equable colouring he is surpassed perhaps by Veronese. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts] Reference
There was a strange new radiancy, a living brightness to her that seemed almost unreal. From Wordnik.com. [The Younger Set] Reference
Its minarets stand up against a clear and cloudless sky, its radiancy shines from afar off. From Wordnik.com. [My War Experiences in Two Continents] Reference
Cornelia would be present in all her radiancy; and who there would be more radiant than she?. From Wordnik.com. [A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.] Reference
Clouded is the brow of her bold brother, and dimmed is the radiancy of her budding sister's bloom. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Duke] Reference
'Am I right?' she asked, and looked upon the doctor with such a radiancy of face that I trembled for her reason. From Wordnik.com. [The Dynamiter] Reference
She braided her hair slowly, in two long plaits, looking shyly in the mirror and always seeing that radiancy. From Wordnik.com. [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference
This I must take for Perseus but that his radiancy did rather point him for Phoebus, the lord of days and the red sun. From Wordnik.com. [Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett] Reference
Yet in Raphael it comes attended with divine grace; in Correggio with faun-like radiancy of gladness; in Buonarroti with. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction] Reference
Let him cease to dusk the radiancy of Ariosto's sunny stanzas, and I shall be the first man who will do justice to his merits. From Wordnik.com. [Vivian Grey] Reference
The parrot-fish are especially splendid in spangling radiancy, their tails and a spine in their mouths giving them their name. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference
As if Bootea sensed the same impending evil she pushed Barlow from her and sank back to the cushion, her face shedding its radiancy. From Wordnik.com. [Caste] Reference
The wristbands were turned up with not less compact precision, and were fastened by jewelled studs that glittered with not less radiancy. From Wordnik.com. [Henrietta Temple A Love Story] Reference
Now Melicent, in a loose robe of green Coan stuff shot through and through with a radiancy like that of copper, followed the thin, smiling. From Wordnik.com. [Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship] Reference
Was he to run the same false, palling, ruinous career which had filled so many hearts with bitterness and dimmed the radiancy of so many eyes?. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Duke] Reference
The splendour of the ascending sun fell full upon the statue, suffusing the ethereal form with radiancy, and spreading around it for some space. From Wordnik.com. [Tancred Or, The New Crusade] Reference
A flaming light spread over the sky, the stars melted away, and I beheld, advancing from the bursting radiancy, the foremost body of a mighty host. From Wordnik.com. [Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity] Reference
So it was that Crane, perplexed by his recent love check, and Allis, mired in gloom over her hero's misfortune, stepped into a radiancy of exotic cheerfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Thoroughbreds] Reference
Above the middle height, his form, athletic though lithe and symmetrical, was crowned by a countenance aquiline but delicate, and from many circumstances of a remarkable radiancy. From Wordnik.com. [Lothair] Reference
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