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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
A faint lambency still clung to the cliff.
From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt
The sky, flooded with moonlight, was of a wonderful lambency and depth; across the whole arch of heaven a band of cloud, fashioned strangely into carven shapes, defiled in solemn march.
From Maria Chapdelaine by W. H. Blake
Still there remained a dark lambency of anticipation.
From Women in Love by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
It has none of the brilliant Orientalism of Balakirew and Cui, none of Rimsky-Korsakoff's soft felicity and lambency and light sensuousness.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld
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
‘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
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