refulgent

• And what does Henriquez say more here than this, 'That though his mistress be obscure by her birth; yet her eyes are so refulgent, they set her above that disadvantage, and make her all over brightness.' —  The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland
• His eyes were refulgent, brighter than any woman's. —  The Shadow of the Torturer
• The saint appeared to him one night, refulgent in his beams of glory, and gave him consolation in his sickness; yet, at the same time, declaring to him, that a far greater affliction than the present was waiting for him at Bolognia, where himself and one of his companions were to pass the winter; that some of them should go to Padua, some to Rome, others to Ferrara, and the remainder of them to Sienna. —  The Works of John Dryden
• “Phanariots and doctors in medicine,” says an eye-witness, “who, in the month of April, 1824, were clad in ragged coats, and who lived on scanty rations, threw off that patriotic chrysalis before summer was past, and emerged in all the splendour of brigand life, fluttering about in rich Albanian habiliments, refulgent with brilliant and unused arms, and followed by diminutive pipe-bearers and tall henchmen.” [ —  The Life of Thomas Lord Cochrane
• As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, —  Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope

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