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
Still there remained a dark lambency of anticipation.
From Women in Love by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
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
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 Merritt, Abraham
A faint lambency still clung to the cliff.
From The Metal Monster by Merritt, Abraham
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