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Meanings of lambent in English

Softly bright or radiant.

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Usage of lambent in English
1
The lambent light revealed weather-smoothed rock formations to the left and right.
Dark rivers of the heart
2
Each stalk had turned into a tall, straight flame of lambent rose.
The Second Latchkey
3
They will be lambent, like a cat's, and you will see them.
The seeker
4
Energistic power cloaked its hooked beak with a lambent red glow.
The Naked God
5
She faced the window, and the morning sun fell lambent over her profile.
Serena
6
The lambent summer-lightning on the western horizon illuminated his face fitfully.
The Last Hope
7
The new-born brimstone butterflies were upon the wing, a flutter of lambent green.
A Tramp's Sketches
8
Within the room to which it belonged a lambent light played.
Brood of the Witch-Queen
9
The Wondership staggered and then seemed to leap into lambent flame.
The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone
10
About us and around floated lambent reds and blues and greens.
A Tramp's Sketches
11
Little could be seen beyond the lambent flames in the fireplace.
The Land of Painted Caves
12
For sky and water were all one lambent gray by this.
The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations
13
His eyes were lambent and heavy and bored right into her.
Fevre Dream
14
His lambent eyes were stupid, he moaned, he rubbed his forehead.
Main Street
15
His intellect was rather a lambent flame than a genial warmth.
Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
16
She regarded him through lambent eyes that glittered with inhuman emotion.
Night of Knives
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