Magnificent

Examples

• She had always a new bonnet on, and flowers bloomed perpetually in it, or else magnificent curling ostrich feathers, soft and snowy as camellias. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I'm magnificent, Pilar said but she did not get up. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The reader will naturally be disposed to ask whether it is intended to claim that Edison has brought about all this magnificent growth of the electric-lighting art. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Its grandeur-- its treasure of paintings, its magnificent halls were objects soothing and even exhilarating. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Machiavelli recognized Lorenzo the Magnificent; Marx, the proletariat of Europe. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Mr Lammle repeated in a magnificent tone. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• He beamed on her from the drawing-room door--magnificent, with ambrosial whiskers, like a god. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The chief butler was the next magnificent institution of the day. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• We were too magnificent, said he. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I entered one of the palaces, and opened the door of a magnificent saloon. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Sir Leicester, with his magnificent glance of displeasure at the rouge, appears to say so too. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The magnificent melody of the Prayer in Rossini's Moses, sung in a sonorous bass voice, rose grandly through the suburban silence of the place. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I had some trouble at first to find a name for him, but I finally concluded to call him Baalbec, because he is such a magnificent ruin. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Magnificent-minded, grand-hearteddear, faulty little man! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you, cried the inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He thought them magnificent girls, quite proper to mate with one of his inches. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Nothing daunted, however, he organized a magnificent exhibit for the Great International Exhibition held in Crystal Palace at Hyde Park, London, in 1851. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I hear your ball was magnificent; and I understand you invited Mrs. Lemuel Struthers? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• We had one magnificent picture of Naples from a high point on the mountain side. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• This magnificent indifference to placing his safety in peril for the second time, revived the flagging interest of the worshippers in the hero. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• There must be a splendid operation, though, to-morrow-- magnificent sight if Slasher does it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Sir Leicester very magnificent again at the notion of Mrs. Rouncewell being spirited off from her natural home to end her days with an ironmaster. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The magnificent diamond locket which hung about Tarzan's neck, had been a source of much wonderment to Jane. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• A magnificent sermon was preached by my gifted friend on the heathen indifference of the world to the sinfulness of little sins. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Then, forth from its magnificent case came the jewel; not lustrous in itself, but quite the contrary. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He honoured me with one of his magnificent bows, and then addressed himself gaily to the scowling master of the house. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Getting the money was nothing--but getting double the sum she wanted, and paying nobody--it was a magnificent stroke. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But all the later emperors after Diocletian wore diadems and magnificent robes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Skilled masons moved from place to place to assist in building the magnificent sacred structures--cathedrals, abbeys, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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