How To Use Splendid In A Sentence
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For instance, the expression for star might be `bright-white-continuing", while one might think of a supernova as `radiant-splendid-dying".
THE BROKEN GOD
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I visited her whenever I was able, and helped deliver her foals, splendid colts and fillies, who, in their own careers, bore the greatest soldiers of the age on their mightiest campaigns.
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Yet suspicion of other people's culinary rectitude, along with the practicality of an earth sign, helps make well-adjusted Virgoans splendid cooks.
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Here is a road seen between sunset and moonrise: "... all that remained of day was a beamless amber light along the west: but I could see every pebble on the path, and every blade of grass, by the light of that splendid moon".
The Three Brontës
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Cristalhombre wrote me asking for further references on "foodie" places at Lakeside after my review of the wonderful Tabarka Restaurant featuring splendid Spanish Mediterranean seafood from the Alicante Region and I told him I knew of few places that met those standards at Lakeside but Dawg has just discovered another place that is new and special beyond belief so here goes:
Cuisine From The Costa Blanca
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She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when Kamar al-Zaman, son of King Shahriman, went to the Hammam, his father in his joy at this event freed the prisoners, and presented splendid dresses to his grandees and bestowed large alm-gifts upon the poor and bade decorate the city seven days.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Entering the village was like passing under an invisible triumphal arch, quite splendid.
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From the cooler water morwong, to a splendid angelfish and the brightly speckled hawkfish, this oceanic haven in the middle of a vast sea vibrates to the rhythm of the Pacific's currents.
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As these methods had yielded such splendid results from nature, they must have something to say about human societies.
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The bed was rickety, with a thin knotty mattress; the sand-colored walls were scratched and gouged; in every corner, under everything, were fluffy dust and cigar ashes; on the tilted wash-stand was a nicked and squatty pitcher; the only chair was a grim straight object of spotty varnish; but there was an altogether splendid gilt and rose cuspidor.
Main Street
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There is a splendid tale of the latter, his pen dripping in irony and vitriol, composing a letter to the United board congratulating them on their ground improvements in the aftermath of his own promises to build a new stadium.
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‘It's meant to be’ jibes Danilo as he storms off the Westmorland Hall stage with such splendid melodrama he almost pushes conductor Wyn Davies into his illustrious players.
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They are great, splendid establishments, with wide, overhung, awninged terraces, and potted plants and electric lights and gold and tinsel, and mixed drinks and ices and sorbets, and all the epicurean cold things which one may find in the best establishment in Paris.
The Automobilist Abroad
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In appearance and atmosphere he was a strapping big college man, smooth-faced and easy-mannered, clean and simple and wholesome, with a known record of being a splendid athlete and an implied vast possession of cold culture of the inhibited sort.
SOUTH OF THE SLOT
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We had a splendid turnout and it was lovely to see so many people taking part in all the activities and enjoying themselves.
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The Sultan looked at Nur al-Din and liked him, so he stablished him in office as the Wazir had requested and formally appointed him, presenting him with a splendid dress of honour and a she-mule from his private stud; and assigning to him solde, stipends and supplies.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Look at those hollyhocks, like pyramids of roses; those garlands of the convolvulus major of all colours, hanging around that tall pole, like the wreathy hop-bine; those magnificent dusky cloves, breathing of the Spice Islands; those flaunting double dahlias; those splendid scarlet geraniums, and those fierce and warlike flowers the tiger-lilies.
Our Village
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The patronage (largely pontifical, but also royal and aristocratic) of the great sculptor-architect is the chief subject of Franco Mormando's lovingly researched "Bernini: His Life and His Rome," which, for all its splendid erudition, freely resorts to American common speech to characterize the sheer viciousness of the Baroque papal oligarchs and Bernini's own egomania (most famously characterized by his ordering a servant to slash the face of his unfaithful mistress, Costanza Bonarelli).
The Heirloom City
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Above the centre gateway, between the noble wings of the propyla which flank it, is a representative emblem of Osiris, in the shape of a splendid shield of the sun, a half-sphere of gold, from which extend wings for many yards, each feather glittering with precious stones.
The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage
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Even if you don't own a bird, these splendid cages make for unusual and decorative souvenirs with a distinctively Chinese look.
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I was absolutely green when I saw his splendid new car.
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Upton had just been telling Eric the splendid phrase, "anerhithmon gelasma ponton", which he had stumbled upon in an Aeschylus lesson that morning, and they were trying which would hit on the best rendering of it.
Eric, or Little by Little
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A 79 inf.), reso splendido e commovente da una miniatura di Simone Martini (su progetto iconofrafico dello stesso Petrarca) e dalla nota che registra la data di morte di molti amici, dell'unica amata (Avignone 6 aprile 1348), e poi, volando il tempo, del figlio Giovanni (1361); di quei vecchissimi volumi scovati nelle Biblioteche («inque bibliothecam ... velut in arcem fugio», Fam.
Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, ed & comm. Rosanna Bettarini (Turin, 2005)
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Ad ipsum fretum Herculis Hispaniae objacet Fessanum regnum, cujus caput Fez, urbs totius Barbariae princeps, ingens, opulenta, frequens, splendida ac magnificis superbisque aedificiis miranda.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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Whoever made the original choice of plants did a splendid job, leaving us a mix of marginals, surface-leaved and submerged oxygenating plants, all of which I would highly recommend to fellow novice pond keepers.
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This, admittedly, gives one a splendid insight into the more mysterious workings of the human mind.
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One could not mistake his warm empathy for the place, for his splendid vision of a small world of learning and research embracing both sides of that famous backwoods river, the Otonabee, deep in the heart of eastern Ontario.
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On France: I was a Francophobe before Francophobia was cool, but I actually had a splendid few days in France, surrounded by helpful strangers who were entirely accommodating to my recollection of 2 years of French, taken 15 years previous.
Matthew Yglesias » The European Bogeyman
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The invaders looked splendid and deadly as they clattered and clopped down the plaza.
Fire The Sky
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The crowd made way for the shepherd and his following, and as they drew near to the raised platform the two white cats, who were Edred and Elfrida, looked up and saw in the middle and biggest chair a splendid, dark-faced man in a kind of fringed turban with two long feathers in it, and in the two chairs to right and left of him, clothed in beautiful embroidered stuffs, with shining collars of jewels about their necks, Father and Uncle Jim!
The House of Arden
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There, seated in splendid comfort, sat Father Morrison, hands clasped around his belly, feet stretched out, dozing, comfortable as a cat on a hearthside rug.
A Small Death in the Great Glen
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The paroquet was a splendid creature, with a brilliant orange throat darkly spotted.
Birds in the Bush
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At any rate, as the years pass, let us on this side of the water be more and more in the one great family, looking to the time when the young Canadian will win the crown of wild olive, that emblem of sweet honour and gray rest, that which is given as a reward and as a guerdon to gallant youth who stands dowered from the night and splendid for the day as the pride and hope of mankind.
The Imperial Significance of Games
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He knows how to work a crowd, he gives a good sermon and produces a splendid pulpit sweat.
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Let's hope the ladies bake one of their splendid cakes and stick some candles on the top.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those who attended were greeted with a splendid display of colour with helium balloons, banners and flags festooning the walls of the Glenside.
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The road curved, and I emerged from a copse to confront a splendid panorama.
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Outside, the once splendid Nevski Prospekt (St. Petersburg's O'Connell Street) is in need of a lick of paint and seems to be trying desperately to become European, but its people are grey and wan.
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The movie is splendidly arrayed visually, but transforms her prim, priggish character and makes her lusty, strong-willed and far too politically progressive for her era.
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Fifteen miles north of Cambridge is the splendid Romanesque cathedral at Ely.
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Should we keep struggling to preserve this most splendid of cities?
Times, Sunday Times
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Donald E. Westlake's _God Save the Mark_ (Forge, $24.95 hardcover, $14.95 trade paper), chosen and introduced by series editor Otto Penzler, is a splendid early example of his unique brand of criminous comedy
The Body Ricardo
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Splendid as the outside looks, the interior of the builds are very poor.
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For we call viands and ointments fine; and we say we have finely dined, when we have been splendidly entertained.
Symposiacs
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The splendidness of this meal reinforced my desire to move to Chapel Hill.
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The buildings were dilapidating yet splendid to behold.
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Even Goneril has her one splendid hour, her fire - flaught of hellish glory; when she treads under foot the half-hearted goodness, the wordy and windy though sincere abhorrence, which is all that the mild and impotent revolt of Albany can bring to bear against her imperious and dauntless devilhood; when she flaunts before the eyes of her "milk-livered" and "moral fool" the coming banners of France about the "plumed helm" of his slayer.
A Study of Shakespeare
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Young yet, barely thirty-six, eminently handsome, magnificently strong, almost bursting with a splendid virility, his free trail-stride, never learned on pavements, and his black eyes, hinting of great spaces and unwearied with the close perspective of the city dwellers, drew many a curious and wayward feminine glance.
Chapter I
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I was recently advised of a splendid plan to unloose some sparrow hawks in Glasgow's parks and squares.
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They come with splendid forest views and underfloor heating.
Times, Sunday Times
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The scarlet petals of the wild Poppy, very abundant in English cornfields, when treated with sulphuric acid make a splendid red dye.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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Few people want to live in splendid isolation any more.
Times, Sunday Times
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Splendid!" said the Widow -- and to tell the truth, she was not far out of the way, and with Helen Darley as a foil anybody would know she must be foudroyant and pyramidal, -- if these French adjectives may be naturalized for this one particular exigency.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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In all this, the great precursor is the strongly drawn King Dahfu in Henderson the Rain King, who makes splendid use of his secondhand English when addressing his massive and worried American guest as follows:
The Great Assimilator
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In this respect it has been a splendidly artful chancellorship that has lasted the remarkable length that it has due in large part to our gullibility and our apparent willingness to let him get away with it.
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He frequently spoiled his splendid point-work with the burin, and his reputation as an aquafortist depends, therefore, more on what he did than on how he did it.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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He was a full-grown and rather large negro, as black as charcoal, with a splendid tier of "ivories;" and with eyeballs, pupil and irides excepted, as white as his teeth.
The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West
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They walked to the very end of the manor, and entered a huge hall filled with lords and ladies, all dressed splendidly in flowing gowns and silk suits, embroidered with golden designs.
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The situation is that of the outsider meeting the pleasures of a different, reputedly splendid civilization.
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Public opinion in its splendid indeterminacy is not evidence.
The Media and the Courts
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Head to the southwest, and see if you can track down this splendid renaissance of the cirl bunting.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Hotel Volga, in Kostroma, is another Soviet-style cement behemoth — but it occupies the finest real estate in the city, and has splendid views of the river.
The Travel Advisory
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A splendid Stalagmite standing 2 to 3 feet high and set apart from the drab brown of the rest of the passage by its white crystalline purity greeted my ascent.
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The picture of him limned itself on her inner vision, and before she was aware she was pleasuring in the memory of the grace of his magnificent body, of his splendid shoulders, of the power in him that tossed her lightly on a horse, bore her safely through the thundering breakers, or towed her at the end of an alpenstock up the stern lava crest of the House of the Sun.
ALOHA OE
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The bank is splendid, open, flat on top and with ace views from each slope.
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A full-length portrait executed in what critics describe as in the style of Van Dyck, it shows her tall, beautiful figure to great advantage in a splendid gold silk gown but her profile is positively haggish, making her look more like Margaret Hamilton the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz rather than Princess Diana of Wales, whom I believe she greatly resembled.
Archive 2010-03-01
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The splendid choir stalls with well-carved misereres are of this dating.
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A circular whirlpool tub takes spotlight in the splendid master bathroom, facing the huge walk-in shower.
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Who could wish for a more beautiful and splendid area in which to work?
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I have had the privilege of meeting Brendan, and he is a really nice chap, a splendid fellow.
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He sings splendidly and cavorts camply with bravura.
The Sun
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There is an intricate Victorian tiled entrance hall with a splendid banister and staircase leading to the upper floor and which is well lit by a large skylight.
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He gave them a splendid lunch of smoked salmon, cold meats and potato salad, a huge mixed salad, and fruit salad in Kirsch.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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It is a grand oligarchy, with immense force and push -- with cunning and skilful intrigue -- in whose plenipotent fingers the threads of the universal octopus centralizes its splendid capabilities in a papal head.
Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D.,
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She looked so splendid that we opted to forgo a screen test.
Times, Sunday Times
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There I spent some comfortable days, sleeping much, having myself read to, mostly from the private letters of the Emperors, and from the Anticatones of the Divine Julius; and, from the balcony of the ante-room enjoying the splendid view southwestwards, over the Circus Maximus, the lower reaches of the Tiber and the Campagna, for my apartment was on that side of the Palace and high up.
Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire
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Not all photographical images of my phizog are flattering; and not all are accurate; but these are splendid.
Archive 2010-02-01
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Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good. Thomas Wolfe
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You can find traditional models or some very interesting solutions like the splendid "vestige" model shown in the picture on the right you can buy it at less than 300$...35% less than normal retail price!
Archive 2008-10-01
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The coastal train took in some splendid vistas, not least the beautiful mountains at the coast at Kaikoura.
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The Splendido, a former monastery and later a patrician villa, soon became what it is today: one of Europe's most exclusive, and expensive, hotels.
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Each day we saw many wild pigs ( "chancho moro") and various kinds of wild cats, including the splendid "gato once" or ounce cat, whose skin is one of the finest, and only to be compared with the "lobo" or golden otter, which has a most magnificent fluffy pelt with a golden tint on the tips.
Argentina from a British Point of View
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The weather was fine and I stayed with friends in a splendid apartment in a Georgian terrace near Haymarket.
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Across the gallery and down the stair -- it might have been the Golden Stair linking Near with Far -- came a score of exquisite women in all the glory of their youth, of perfect physical beauty and splendid strength and fullness of life; and the wonder was not their beauty more than a kind of dryad delicacy of that beauty, which was yet not frailty but a look of angelic strength.
Romance Island
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A native we spoke with referred to it as a "ciudad," but in everything but name it was a dead, mud-and-straw Indian village, all but its main street a collection of mud, rags, pigs, and sunshine, and no evidence of what Prescott describes as splendid ruins.
Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond
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On the stage, Mrs Siddons senior and Mr John Kemble were remarkable for the solemn deliberation of their manner, both in declamation and action, and yet they were splendidly gifted in power.
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The play got splendid, excellent, unfavourable, etc reviews.
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I lay on a sunlounger beside the splendid rooftop swimming pool.
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Will he be bringing his splendid new ginger beard?
Times, Sunday Times
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The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval. Denis Waitley
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Gahagan, Commanding Irregular Horse, Abmednuggar, to Belinda, second daughter of Major – General Bulcher, C.B. His Excellency the Commander-inChief gave away the bride; and after a splendid dejeune, the happy pair set off to pass the Mango season at
Burlesques
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They had the small, brilliant room, a splendid cabinet of treasures, to themselves; there was only a custode hovering about the Medicean Venus.
The Portrait of a Lady
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The construction industry is in splendid shape.
Times, Sunday Times
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Skaters were also having a splendid time in Victoria Park, which had been flooded, and was covered with a sheet of ice in grand condition.
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A video piece of handwashing by Bruce Naumann sits comfortably with a splendid display of Delft tiles; and a blue-and-white chamber pot and several life-size sofa-type objects with their "backs" made from tons of processed human feces somehow go nicely with the 1661 English delftware plate deflatingly inscribed "You and I are Earth.
Dishing the 'Dirt' on Filth
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The streets of Yuma and Somerton are crowded with the automobiles of farmers, enriched by thousands of acres of splendid long-staple cotton, alfalfa, corn, and feterita.
Community Civics and Rural Life
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From that most splendid of German houses.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once one is accustomed to such a splendid palace it no longer dazzles.
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‘Splendid little creature,’ gasped Mr Griffiths, mopping his brow once more.
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One of the nicest gifts I ever received was a splendid loaf of bread the student had baked.
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One of the most truthful sections of the community with which I have ever come in contact is that splendid section who guard sheep.
The Imperial Significance of Games
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It looks splendid and magical, and is downright inspiring with its real grass, cup holders on the seats and a scoreboard big enough for Times Square.
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There is great value in the splendid isolation of a quiet walk along a peaceful river.
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Over the years there have been splendid displays of flowers which really make the island attractive.
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The speeches were numerous, but crucially short (the sweepstake winner had plumped for 33 minutes), and the perennial post-reception disco was splendid.
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And the problem is even more fundamental than that, Gold argued: the beautiful Mylar blades of Cosmos 1, or 2, will be too splendid to function, period.
Across the Universe
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I owe him a philopena, and that would have been a splendid way to pay it.
Tabitha at Ivy Hall
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They stained strongly positive for alkaline phosphatase, were karyotypically normal and, most importantly, made splendid chimeras.
The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Advanced Information
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A splendid bookcase goes along with the complete encyclopaedia if you pay cash.
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It's a must for the performance of the orchestra and splendid chorus alone.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Dresden State Orchestra turns in their usual fine playing here and the Saxon State Opera Chorus sings splendidly, as well.
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He bore in his hand what was called a truncheon, which was a sort of sceptre, very splendidly covered and adorned.
Richard I Makers of History
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He was equipped in a wonderful solidity of armour, with a hard, carven helmet on his head, a splendid red-bossed shield swinging on his shoulder, a wide-grooved, straight sword clashing along his thigh.
Irish Fairy Tales
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Blessed are the merciful, for they shall be called upon to staunch a splendid flow of blood, and dress a wonderful wound.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Knowledge page 101 and 102 has made the following observation 'The splendid comet which appeared in our hemisphere in 1811 was first discovered in this country by a sawer.
Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville
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Hamlet, like Richard II, meant to be by temperament a lyrical poet, a splendid commentator and rhapsodist, is forced to plunge into a series of frenetic occasions.
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The steep asphalt path at the west end of the ruins of St Mary's Abbey made a splendid toboggan slide, and the invigorating pastime was thoroughly enjoyed.
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Almost every visitor to Edinburgh is seduced by its splendid architecture.
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There is the grandiosity of that self-description – splendidly undercut by the prosaicness of the "twenty practical actions for happiness", which urges people to hug each other, exercise more often and say thank you more often.
Happiness: When smiling becomes policy | Editorial
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ÂConsequently, the work of Vernon Fisher is the surprise in the Cracker Jack box; it's visually splendid.
ArtScene: The Southwest's Top Ten Exhibition Picks for 2010
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Moreover, I will give you a splendid staff of riches and wealth: it is of gold, with three branches, and will keep you scatheless, accomplishing every task, whether of words or deeds that are good, which I claim to know through the utterance of Zeus.
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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“It is not such a dinner as you have seen at her house, with six side-dishes, two flanks, that splendid epergne, and the silver dishes top and bottom; but such as my Rosa has she offers with a willing heart,” cries the Campaigner.
The Newcomes
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For me, there was nothing quite so awesomely splendid as the Judge Jeffries sweet trolley, where everything was garnished with glacé cherries, ‘hundreds and thousands’, or tiny little green chunks of angelica.
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Accordingly, they sometimes put down their thoughts in bits, in short, equivocal, and paradoxical sentences which appear to mean much more than they say (a splendid example of this kind of writing is furnished by Schelling’s treatises on
Essays of Schopenhauer
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Bottlebrushes, gums and lillypillies, too numerous to mention here, also include splendid specimens of towering proportions in their genera.
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I picked up a splendid pair of panel-cut Victorian decanters with original stoppers for £90-now, that has to be value for money.
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the splendid coronation ceremony
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The preprandial pickles are splendid and so are the popadoms with them.
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But in reality it was audacious, surprising and rather splendid.
Times, Sunday Times
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This programme was a montage of splendid images that recorded and informed and changed their time.
Times, Sunday Times
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The injection of tricks into this exaggerated style of b-ball works splendidly.
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His reputation as a statesman is splendid.
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It is like some miniature and magic church, a casquet made splendid not with jewels but with beauty, where the miracle picture of Madonna -- not that ancient and wonderful picture by Ugolino da Siena, but a work, it is said, of Bernardo
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition
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Our team gave a splendid account of themselves to win the match.
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A drive down Highway 1 takes you to the capital, Wellington, a splendid city, though one that is prone to earth tremors.
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The closing story in this collection, "Pride and Prometheus," recently published in F&SF, is a splendid exercise in Jane Austen pastiche, a younger Bennet sister meeting Victor Frankenstein and striving to reconcile his cruel Gothicism with scientific ideals.
Financial independence via munchkinland
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The story is told in splendid pictures - a treat to read to the young folk and to enjoy yourself.
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ORLANDO, FL -- 04/16/10 -- The Orlando World Center Marriott Resort, a standout among luxury resorts in Orlando, offers seniors a splendid vacation getaway with big savings and a beautiful view of the world!
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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They are enticing new ingredients for a city that already serves a generous helping of splendid medieval architecture.
Times, Sunday Times
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Arlack possessed a most splendid squint with both eyes, so that it was often observed he would make a capital cook, as he could always keep one eye on the pot while he surveyed the intricacies of the chimney with the other; and, to complete the catalogue of his complexional recommendations, his face was absolutely furrowed, seamed and gashed until it had nearly lost a human shape by the pitiless assaults of the smallpox.
Ralph Rashleigh
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Happy birthday to an attractive,intellectual,sophisticated and all round splendid person.
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And there was poor old Flashy, caught behind the companies of the 24th as they poured their volley-firing into the "chest" of the Zulu army, cheering and shouting for the ammunition-carriers, and Durnford 's bald forehead glinting in the sun above his splendid whiskers as he pulled his men back to the donga and blazed away at the left "horn" sweeping in towards them.
Watershed
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The town of Belmullet looks splendid and bright with the addition of new lights.
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She rolls in the long soft grass, where the gold colored snakes are at play; she watches the young monkeys chattering and swinging among the trees, hung by the tail; she chases the splendid green parrots that fly among the trees; and she drinks the sweet milk of a cocoanut from a round cup made of its shell.
The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air
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This stream contains a diverse community of fishes, including the piscivorous cichlid fish, Petenia splendida.
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The lower strings contribute a splendid richness of sonority.
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She looked so splendid that we opted to forgo a screen test.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the meanwhile, during your absence, I shall not be neglective of providing a wife for you, nor of those preparations which are requisite to be made for the more sumptuous solemnizing of your nuptials with a most splendid feast, if ever there was any in the world, since the days of
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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There was possibly a sense that in comparison to the magnificent new transepts and nave the choir itself, once so widely acclaimed, was no longer splendid enough.
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The elegant Royal Theatre next door is one of the most splendid of its kind in the country.
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The above-water section would be feature sail-shaped structures that would complement the architecture of the harbor and have the city's Corniche seabank in the backdrop, with the splendid Alexandria Library on the other end of the bay, he said.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
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Anyone watching television coverage of the Chelsea Flower Show this past week can't have failed to notice a splendid specimen of abutilon, an exotic small shrub also known as Flowering Maple, Parlour Maple and Indian Mallow.
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On France: I was a Francophobe before Francophobia was cool, but I actually had a splendid few days in France, surrounded by helpful strangers who were entirely accommodating to my recollection of 2 years of French, taken 15 years previous.
Matthew Yglesias » The European Bogeyman
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In a copy of the works of Petrarch in Latin, folio, 1501, occurs on the title: "Liber Antonij kressen juris vtriusq. doctoris emptus venecijs ligatus nurenberge Mcccccv;" and the noble old volume (now in the British Museum) is accompanied by a memoir of Kressen, printed about 1600, of uniform size, with a splendid portrait of the interesting Nüremberger.
The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
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This section in itself is a splendid potted history of changing tastes in illustration and changing attitudes to the Victorians.
Times, Sunday Times
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The old woman dressed even more splendidly.
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In fact the discontinuity of styles created a splendid energy in the piece.
COLDHEART CANYON
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Let from the world upsoar on high A voice of splendid prophecy!
Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
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It also has a splendid harbour full of boats offering fishing trips, pleasure cruises and diving excursions.
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A drapery scarf is sometimes added to this dress, of white barege, with the ends in stripes of gold across, and finished by a splendid and gossamer-like fringe of white silk.
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The trees, which are of magnificent size, are left to grow naturally; -- the Isar, which is turned into it, flows in more than one stream with its mountain impetuosity; the lake is gracefully indented and overhung with trees, and presents ever-changing aspects of loveliness as you walk along its banks; there are open, sunny meadows, in which single giant trees or splendid groups of them stand, and walks without end winding under leafy Gothic arches.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
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The broad avenues are shaded by splendid trees.
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The old woman dressed even more splendidly.
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It seems wonderfully natural and without vanity that he takes the Eucharist from a splendid golden challis but blesses the babies, the brides, grooms and the dearly departed from a salsa bottle.
Small Brown Bishops
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A splendid batting pitch and huge outfield meant that the target of 164 was not as daunting as it first appeared.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's a bewildering array of familiar supervillains and splendid interludes played as Catwoman, along with collectibles, side missions and distractions in a game that oozes the very essence of Batman, from dialogue and character design to the gibbous moon permanently silhouetting its buildings.
This week's new games
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We had splendid food/a splendid holiday/splendid weather.
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This splendid building has gone.
Times, Sunday Times
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Will he be bringing his splendid new ginger beard?
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a simple drawing of a square tower, standing in splendid isolation like an accusing finger pointing at the sky.
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It is an idiotic move that backfires in a splendidly karmic way.
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Pummice, the splendid house-painters at Dollington, arrived with his artists and charwomen to give the Assembly Room its annual touching-up and bedizenment, preparatory to the Hunt Ball.
Wylder's Hand
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In this respect it has been a splendidly artful chancellorship that has lasted the remarkable length that it has due in large part to our gullibility and our apparent willingness to let him get away with it.
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The peacock spreads his splendid tail.
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The folk dances and national costumes are a delight to see and the splendid copperware, embroidery and lace make original souvenirs.
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As a chanter, Altai's poems, is the most splendid dedication that he offers to plateau homeland.
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In summer it stood in the midst of a waving garden of buttercups and whiteweed, a towering mass of verdant leafage, a shelter from the sun and a refuge from the storm; a cool, splendid, hospitable dome, under which the weary farmer might fling himself, and gaze upward as into the heights and depths of an emerald heaven.
The Village Watch-Tower
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We had a splendid Indian summer last October.
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From the granite-and-marble statues of Old Testament kings above the main courtyard, to the blue azulejo tiles in the royal apartments (to say nothing of the Titians, El Grecos, and Riberas), the Escorial has borne up splendidly over four centuries.
The Caudillo’s Cloister
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The cavalry regiments have always been splendidly dressed, with the light horse being the most dashing.
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The inscriptions, instead of being grouped wherever there happened to be space, and so producing the richest form of wall-decoration ever devised by man, are disposed in symmetrical columns, the effect of which, when compared with the florid style of Karnak, is as the methodical neatness of an engrossed deed to the splendid freedom of an illuminated manuscript.
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
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For the drama of _Faust_ is not a drama of damnation, but of redemption, and though the breadth and scope of the whole conception pass beyond all presentation in complete and rounded form, the great tragedy of Gretchen takes us from the splendid but abstract world of ideas into the simplest experience of human life, where Faust becomes human through love itself, but too slowly, too late to avert the tragedy.
The Unity of Civilization
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A snowy white runner ran along the length of the hall, stopping beneath an arched window that no doubt provided a splendid view of the city below.
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Tonight he was splendid in fashionable buttoned-down mauve shirt and violet tie.
IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
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It is all most splendid, showing English craftsmanship at its best.
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No one can help admiring the good sense and powerful, if limited, logic of the redoubtable opponent of the Précieuses and champion of formalism; he has all the qualities of a splendid fighter, and in spite of his crushing power of inventive he was far too wise to be bitter; but his enthusiasm for literary law and order makes him support all that is most unlyrical in poetry.
Introduction
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Some comely instinct guided it thitherwards, sometimes staggering low over the water, sometimes flitting splendidly high until distance and the glowing sky absorbed it.
My Tropic Isle
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Inside the original rafters and walls are adorned by two splendid hobs over a fireplace.
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While putting on his boots he had come across something rather splendid.
Times, Sunday Times
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Meanwhile, back at the car park, we were treated to some splendid entertainment courtesy of the lads and lassies from the three competing nations.
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In the first, an enigmatic wanderer, appareled in a coat of many colors, enters a splendid city:
Cassocks and Codpieces
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It was a splendid figure of a lass, tall and vigorous, with the sort of hair that in polite circles is called auburn, and that flaming colour in the cheeks which is Nature's recompense to people who live where it rains all the time.
King Coal : a Novel
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Marsh was a splendid sort, a capital pilot and skipper and tough as they came, I guessed, but with a fund of yarns and partial to a convivial glass or a hand at euchre.
Isabelle
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She encompassed the bold leaps and wide range of the vocal part splendidly - always singing with strongly focused tone and perfect intonation.
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At present he was working on the splendid oak floors, sanding and polishing them.
COFFIN IN FASHION
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Every garden can teach us something, she says, whether it's the splendid formal grounds of a stately home or the riotous richness of a cottage potager.
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The house sits in splendid isolation on top of a steep hill.
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So in some splendid still lifes you will find blowflies sitting on a pear or the odd maggot creeping out of a peach.
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But as I looked the waves began to ebb – and they ebbed as swiftly as, four years ago, they rolled in – ebbed out and out, to the gulf; and the Glen lay before me, beautiful and green, with a rainbow spanning Rainbow Valley – a rainbow of such splendid colour that it dazzled me – and I woke.
Rilla of Ingleside
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The editing is splendid except for an inordinate number of misprints, especially in proper names and in foreign words.
