Splendour

Examples

• His design for that great work demanded a prelude of splendour and tranquillity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• So there was splendour and wealth, but no great happiness perchance, behind the tall caned portals of Gaunt House with its smoky coronets and ciphers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• If Dr. Franklin did not aspire after the splendour of eloquence, it was only because the demonstrative plainness of his manner was superior to it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• By the splendour of Our Lady's brow! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• We can say nothing of the splendour and beauty of the former, nor of the fantastic invention and wit of the latter. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The apartments were restored to their pristine splendour, and the park, all disrepairs restored, was guarded with unusual care. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The alternations of splendour and misery which these people undergo are very queer to view. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Man walked forth, elated with the scene; and all was brightness and splendour. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The latter quickly spied out the magnificence of the brocade of Becky's train, and the splendour of the lace on her dress. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The golden splendour arose, and weary nature awoke to suffer yet another day of heat and thirsty decay. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Its splendour was in such contrast to his homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• But his prevailing occupation was splendour. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It seems to me the sense of splendour has justified itself by what it has produced. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Some of his comrades, gentlemen who used the room, joked him about the splendour of his costume and his agitation of manner. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She said you were used to all kinds of things--splendours and amusements and excitements--that we could never hope to give you here. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I watched them alight (carriages were inadmissible) amidst new and unanticipated splendours. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Even my eyes, for long years accustomed to the barbaric splendours of a Martian Jeddak's court, were amazed at the glory of the scene. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• And even the splendours of monarchy were enormously costly, measured by the productivity of the time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I told the scene realized; the crowd, the masquesthe music, the lamps, the splendours, the guns booming afar, the bells sounding on high. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Withdrawing to a quiet nook, whence unobserved I could observe--the ball, its splendours and its pleasures, passed before me as a spectacle. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

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