Splendours
[splendəz]
Examples
- 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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