Etymology
Origin of lambency
Example Sentences
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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
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 Hough, Emerson
A faint lambency still clung to the cliff.
From The Metal Monster by Merritt, Abraham
A hundred feet away the Shining One pulsed and spiralled in its evilly glorious lambency of sparkling plumes.
From The Moon Pool by Merritt, Abraham
Glory of the poet, glow O’ the humorist who castigates his kind, Suave summer-lightning lambency which plays On stag-horned tree, misshapen crag askew, Then vanishes with unvindictive smile After a moment’s laying black earth bare.
From Browning and His Century by Clarke, Helen Archibald
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