Splendid

Examples

• I think it was so splendid in Father to go as chaplain when he was too old to be drafted, and not strong enough for a soldier, said Meg warmly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Canler was a splendid match. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• It was a splendid example. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• They will fight nature no longer as dull conscripts of the pick and plough, but for a splendid conquest. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Jos was even more splendid at Brighton than he had been at his sister's marriage. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• This could give him no fresh power that he did not already exercise, but it would be more splendid--it would astonish his mother. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In Smyrna we picked up camel's hair shawls and other dressy things from Persia; but in Palestine--ah, in Palestine--our splendid career ended. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Fred, as the eldest twin, will have the estate, I suppose, and such a splendid one it is! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Here in America alone we have two splendid critics, a man and a woman, whose thought flows from an interpretation of human character. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But it feels like a splendid country. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• So even if the Commission had drawn splendid plans for housing, work conditions, education, and play it would have done only part of the task of statesmanship. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I don't like your gown, but I do think you are just splendid. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I'm not ambitious for a splendid fortune, a fashionable position, or a great name for my girls. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Oh, the supreme, splendid confidence of youth! Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He was altogether splendid, massive, overpowering, and impracticable. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But the taxation of unimproved property happens at the same time to be a splendid weapon against the slum. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Shopping in Regent Street is perfectly splendid. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle, something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• My dear child,' he said, as he spread it on another piece of paper before her, 'the idea of a splendid--! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Were the pride of ancestry, the patrician spirit, the gentle courtesies and refined pursuits, splendid attributes of rank, to be erased among us? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Men made perilous journies to possess themselves of earth's splendid trifles, gems and gold. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• We seem to be in a pretty fix here with a splendid chance of dying of starvation and thirst. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• We are all splendid. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• A bicycle is a splendid thing. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Mixed races produce mixed results, splendid, I own, in many cases, but not so severely unique and classic as would be the case with untamed tribes. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I'm not going to be married in this splendid matronly state. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Jos Sedley was splendid. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But somewhere splendid. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• How splendid it will be to have you doing what you like, and be able to see you often, and the boys! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Sophia looked very splendid in her Opera-box since her marriage, particularly when she wore all the late Lady Berwick's diamonds and her own to boot. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

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