lambency

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Lily has this lambency, this light that comes out of her, this drollness and irony that is very seductive.

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  1. The quality of being lambent; that which is lambent; a lambent gleam. These were sacred lambencies, tongues of authentic flame from heaven. Carlyle, Reminiscences.

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  • Lily has this lambency, this light that comes out of her, this drollness and irony that is very seductive. —  BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content
  • Moonlight lit the slope before her, and streetlights, and a certain lambency of the grass blades themselves. —  War for the Oaks
  • Still there remained a dark lambency of anticipation. —  Women in Love
  • A hundred feet away the Shining One pulsed and spiralled in its evilly glorious lambency of sparkling plumes. —  The Moon Pool
  • He wanted leisure to see the rhapsody of every small movement under the lambency of both sun and moon. —  Corpus of a Siam Mosquito
 

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