Lexicographical Neighbors of Lambencies
Literary usage of Lambencies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Confessions of an English Opium-eater: And Suspiria de Profundis by Thomas De Quincey (1850)
"We, the children, were all constitutionally touched with pensiveness; the fitful
gloom and sudden lambencies of the room by firelight, suited our evening ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"We, the children, were all constitutionally touched with pensiveness; the fitful
gloom and sudden lambencies of the room by firelight suited our evening ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1845)
"... lambencies of the room by fire-light, suited our evening state of feelings ;
and they suited also the divine revelations of power and mysterious ..."
4. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883)
"For he was of weak health, lamed of a leg in childhood ; had an airy winged turn
of thought, flowing out in lambencies of beautiful spontaneous wit and ..."
5. The New England Magazine by Making of America Project (1895)
"... no temple in the world was more so, — but there were sacred lambencies, tongues
of authentic flame from heaven which kindled what was best in one, ..."
6. Collections of the Maine Historical Society by Maine Historical Society (1891)
"Here again were "sacred lambencies, tongues of authentic flame which kindled what
was best in one ; " and doubtless many a soul that did not hold stoutly by ..."
7. English Lands, Letters and Kings by Donald Grant Mitchell (1897)
"... often sent to press without any revision and full of strange coined words.
I note at random, such as novel-ish erector (for builder), lambencies, ..."
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