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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
They were both rayless and strangely—lightless; they threw no shadows nor did their lambency lessen the dimness.
From The Metal Monster by Merritt, Abraham
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
There was a core of intensity, intolerably bright; about that, lambency but no flame, in which I saw leaves and straws and fronds of fern flickering, spiring, heeling over and over.
From Lore of Proserpine by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
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 Blake, W. H.
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