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Origin of lambency
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Its climate has not the smart alpine tang of St. Moritz, but the balmy southern lambency of Italian Stresa, just across the lake.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt
Still there remained a dark lambency of anticipation.
From Women in Love by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Eddring moved forward impetuously, feeling all the thrill of her presence; all the lambency of woman, planet-like, far-off, mysterious.
From The Law of the Land by Emerson Hough
They were both rayless and strangely—lightless; they threw no shadows nor did their lambency lessen the dimness.
From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt
‘I am perusing,’ answered the young gentleman, ‘the last work of the Herr Doctor Hohenstockwitz, cousin and librarian of your Prince here in Grünewald—a man of great erudition and some lambencies of wit.’
From Prince Otto, a Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson
Flares and flames of pale emerald, steady glowing of flame rubies, glints and lambencies of deepest sapphire, of wan sapphire, flickering opalescences, irised glitterings.
From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt
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