Use "splendour" in a sentence

1. The Countess through her financial foundations and partnerships moved in quiet splendour wherever and whenever she wished

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2. Here it comes, he thought, the pomp and splendour

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3. time the splendour of the home’s architecture had been graced by

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4. visitor, always remarked on the sheer beauty and splendour of the

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5. content as he was, to bask in the splendour of this

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6. The Range Rover burns through gasoline in the urban splendour of Roundswell; car dealerships, neon lights and estate houses themed on Spanish villas

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7. village of Saint Bertrand itself lived up to the splendour of

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8. out too and bathed the night with its silver splendour

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9. A city might, in this manner, grow up to great wealth and splendour, while not only the country in its neighbourhood, but all those to which it traded, were in poverty and wretchedness

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10. What Dercyllidas said of the court of Persia, may be applied to that of several European princes, that he saw there much splendour, but little strength, and many servants, but few soldiers

11. discoveries has been, to raise the mercantile system to a degree of splendour and glory which it could never otherwise have attained to

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12. The countries which possess the colonies of America, and which trade directly to the East Indies, enjoy indeed the whole show and splendour of this great commerce

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13. The proud minister of an ostentatious court, may frequently take pleasure in executing a work of splendour and magnificence, such as a great highway, which is frequently seen by the principal nobility, whose applauses not only flatter his vanity, but even contribute to support his interest at court

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14. and restores the family to their ancient splendour, could in those times have no such effect

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15. “I witnessed both great wars in their full splendour

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16. cut back the old growth and lost the frosted shard splendour of

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17. Honestly, Raven, you haven’t seen splendour until you’ve stepped into Basilica Di San Giovanni in Laterano

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18. He sat down on the soft, plush covers of the bed and looked at the bookcases, paintings and curtains that decorated his room, feeling intimidated by the splendour

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19. He saw hopelessness in their dull eyes and felt guilt prickling in the pit of his stomach, guilt that he was residing in such splendour

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20. Keeping in mind that the Nationalists tried to apply Biblical terms to law and a woman’s’ hair…that it is her splendour or something, I never saw a short-haired police woman ever in my life

21. the music and splendour of the Christmas celebration that he had been

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22. Then, then my brothers, we will be free to restore the splendour that once dwelt in every sett throughout Boddaert's Realm

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23. Yes, I wondered what the Belgian, known far and wide, and even on the next block for his sartorial splendour, would make of this

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24. His eyes were a bit funny, all lit up with some inner splendour

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25. Beyond it the hills were dark against a spendthrift splendour of daffodil and crimson

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26. legend in previous years for the splendour of the three-bedroom

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27. Your day? Or how will the splendour of those who are after those times continue? 3 Will they then resume this form of the present;

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28. splendour of angels, and the former shall yet more waste away in wonder at the visions and in the beholding of the forms

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29. I looked as Adrinius, in all his splendour

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30. 14 And the sons of Cain who wrought all this, and shone in beauty and gorgeous apparel, gathered together at the foot of the mountain in splendour, with horns and gorgeous dresses, and horse races, committing all manner of abominations

31. A flaming fire surrounded the walls, and its portals blazed with fire; And I entered into that house, and it was hot as fire and cold as ice; There were no delights of life in it: fear covered me, and trembling gat hold on me; And as I quaked and trembled, I fell on my face; And I beheld a vision, And note! there was a second house, greater than the former, and the entire portal stood open before me, and it was built of flames of fire; And in every respect it so excelled in splendour and magnificence and extent that I cannot describe to you its splendour and its extent; And its floor was of fire, and above it were lightnings and the path of the stars, and its ceiling also was flaming fire; And I looked and saw in it a lofty throne; Its appearance was as crystal, and the wheels of it as the shining sun, and there was the vision of cherubim; And from underneath the throne came streams of flaming fire so that I could not look thereon; And the Great Glory sat thereon, and His raiment shone more brightly than the sun and was whiter than any snow

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32. And now I swear to you, to the wise and to the foolish; For you shall have manifold experiences on the Earth; For you men shall put on more adornments than a woman; And coloured garments more than a virgin in royalty and in grandeur and in power, and in silver and in gold and in purple, and in splendour and in food they shall be poured out as water

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33. largely intact in all its splendour

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34. 14 And the sons of Cain who wrought all this and shone in beauty and gorgeous apparel gathered together at the foot of the mountain in splendour with horns and gorgeous dresses and horse races committing all manner of abominations

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35. A flaming fire surrounded the walls and its portals blazed with fire; And I entered into that house and it was hot as fire and cold as ice; There were no delights of life in it: fear covered me and trembling gat hold on me; And as I quaked and trembled I fell on my face; And I beheld a vision And note! there was a second house greater than the former and the entire portal stood open before me and it was built of flames of fire; And in every respect it so excelled in splendour and magnificence and extent that I cannot describe to you its splendour and its extent; And its floor was of fire and above it were lightnings and the path of the stars and its ceiling also was flaming fire; And I looked and saw in it a lofty throne; Its appearance was as crystal and the wheels of it as the shining sun and there was the vision of cherubim; And from underneath the throne came streams of flaming fire so that I could not look thereon; And the Great Glory sat thereon and His raiment shone more brightly than the sun and was whiter than any snow

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36. And now I swear to you to the wise and to the foolish; For you shall have manifold experiences on the Earth; For you men shall put on more adornments than a woman; And coloured garments more than a virgin in royalty and in grandeur and in power and in silver and in gold and in purple and in splendour and in food they shall be poured out as water

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37. 5 But then also He showed to him the measures of the fire also the depths of the abyss and the weight of the winds and the number of the drops of rain: 6 And the suppression of anger and the multitude of long-suffering and the truth of judgment: 7 And the root of wisdom and the riches of understanding and the fount of knowledge: 8 And the height of the air and the greatness of Paradise and the consummation of the ages and the beginning of the Day of Judgment: 9 And the number of the offerings and the Earths which have not yet come: 10 And the mouth of Gehenna and the station of vengeance and the place of faith and the region of hope and the likeness of future torment and the multitude of innumerable angels and the flaming hosts and the splendour of the lightnings 11 and the voice of the thunders and the orders of the chiefs of the angels and the treasuries of light and the changes of the times and the investigations of the law

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38. Finally the two men reached the edge of the Lammas boundary, the fields which led to where the mountains had once been, in their ancient splendour

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39. 14 And he began to say A certain man was rich and wore silk and purple and en- joyed himself every day in splendour and there was a poor man named Lazarus and he was throw down at the door of the rich man afflicted with sores and he longed to fill his belly with the crumbs that fell from the table of that rich man; yes even the dogs used to come and lick his sores; And it happened that that poor man died and the angels conveyed him into the bosom of Abraham and the rich man also died and was buried; And while he was being tormented in Hades he lifted up his eyes from afar and saw Abraham with Lazarus in his bosom; And he called with a loud voice and said My father Abraham have mercy on me and send Lazarus to wet the tip of his finger with water and moisten my tongue for me; for look I am burned in this flame

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40. And the gate glittered to such a degree under the sunbeams that I marvelled at the splendour of the gate; and round about the gate were standing twelve virgins

41. So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise,

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42. The splendour and the pain;

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43. The strength and splendour of our purpose swings

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44. Maybe the butler finally remembered me, Joseph thought as he entered the splendour of the palace

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45. I"d imagined that with the Esplanade buildings gone we would be left to enjoy our solitary splendour

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46. Upstairs in the gallery, where the senior school sat in splendour, Robert waited for the teachers to process on to the platform for the morning’s assembly

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47. Such reminders of past splendour rendered the mismatched furniture, lack of paintings on the walls, faded torn curtains, damp spots and worn patches on the carpet, even more depressing

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48. and humour, though there is in them a glint of power; and the splendour of

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49. Alone in his darkening front room, Ian Nikelseer watched the dying light drape his school in spurious Gothic splendour

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50. No, he thought, a mirror wouldn’t be like that; perhaps if the lake were filled with mercury…but then its splendour would only be passing, transitory beauty, while poison leaked into the land, leeching its disease into soil and plant life

51. As the gyrations became wilder, the cloak was flung aside to reveal Ruth in all her splendour, going through her dance routine

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52. of these higher planes, and was comparing in his thought the splendour of the

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53. In the highly developed man that centre pours out splendour and glory,

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54. Far above us as is all the splendour of these great heights at present, it is worth our while to lift our thought towards them and try to realize them a

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55. Winter breakup came early to the west coast and the warm sun created a fast run-off so that the melting snows filled the creeks with bubbling, vibrant waters that swept with mad abandon down mountain slopes, bounced in dazzling white splendour over forest waterfalls, and filled the streams, the rivers and the lakes with a new life force

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56. the royal splendour of Hamble could not compare to this simple

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57. I was bedazzled at the beauty and splendour of it

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58. Mother, Wedon, Jodas, Coatl and I mounted the dais and sat down in all our regal splendour

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59. My mother was tireless in her instruction, never wasting a moment, day and night, never sparing herself or me, or any of our workforce who had a particular skill that mother felt I should be conversant with, all this preparation so that I would be ready for the task ahead, you can imagine my surprise when, four months after starting my training, she produced my initiation cloths, such splendour, I was stunned, when had she found the time to make cloths of such splendour?

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60. I climbed the platform steps, stood in the centre of the dais, dressed in all my splendour and called in a loud voice

61. It was the splendour house which alerted the authorities to Mr

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62. An aroma, drifting in tantalising pockets of mouth-watering splendour, enveloped her

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63. splendour before the rebellion

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64. progressively achieve more moments of SI in which you truly live in the moment and see Reality in all its splendour

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65. Meditate on the effulgence in the sun, or the splendour in the moon or the glory in the stars

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66. However, the scenery was indeed majestic, and the superb natural splendour began to soften his fears and gave him a sense of exaltation

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67. Many months of planning and preparation were reaching a grand finale, a climax of pomp and circumstance and splendour and pageantry the like of which had never before been seen in what was about to become the new American State of Ireland

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68. gazed absently over the splendour of Centurion Lake as the Caretaker Manager of

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69. Helga nevertheless wondered if the splendour was distance related

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70. splendour was imbedded in their souls forever

71. splendour slowly invigorates the soul of the solitary wanderer

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72. the splendour of the Catskills’ back country

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73. born again, noticed the splendour of a promising spring day

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74. A song of revelation, it strives to demonstrate what God must be in all his divine splendour

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75. I could have stood all night drinking in the splendour of it all, but he interrupted my thoughts

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76. 30Both as wife of one of the seven gods and symbol of feminine qualities, she is a manifestation of God’s splendour

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77. For as Byron’s eyes cleared and he peered through the filtering darkness of the clinging shadows he saw a group of twenty or more Egyptian slaves or thieves, they must have been slaves or thieves for they were not dressed in the splendour that the Pharaoh documentaries catalogued

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78. the splendour that he found himself in, wondered

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79. splendour, waiting for her funeral! By whatever

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80. When the men entered the house, they saw before them a large entrance hall displaying the excellence of its architecture and the splendour of its ornaments

81. There, the giant slave would prepare the narghile [122]for him to smoke and then stand respectfully by the side of the carriage while the pasha remained sitting in his comfortable seat, smoking and feasting his eyes on the beauty, splendour and perfection that was created by God’s powerful Hands

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82. Mohammad Amin replied, ‘I would stop there, feeling a sense of awe for the splendour, beauty and majesty, inhale the perfumes as deeply as possible, and gaze at the perfect creation and faultless shapes; I’d be overcome and enthralled by the perfection of its creation

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83. and splendour just in the plant kingdom!

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84. And as I regard its awesome splendour ,

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85. Well, what is one to do? Never be soft? Never be sad? Or sorry? Or repentant? Always stay up at the level of Milton's _Time_ poem, or of his _At a Solemn Musick_, strung high up to an unchanging pitch of frigid splendour and nobleness? It is what I try to aim at

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86. It was the _gute Stube_--good room-- used only on occasions of frigid splendour

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87. We lay stretched out on the grass, quite silent, watching the splendour grow and grow till, having reached a supreme moment of radiance, it suddenly went out

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88. I have driven there at all hours of the day--I cannot keep away--and I have seen them early in the morning, and at mid-day, and in the afternoon, and I have seen them in the evening by moonlight, when all the intensity was washed out of the colour and into the scent; but just as the sun drops behind the little hills is the supreme moment, when the splendour is so dazzling that you feel as though you must have reached the very gates of heaven

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89. The standard reached beneath the windows should at least be kept up, if it cannot be surpassed, right away through, and the German popular plan in this matter quite discarded of concentrating all the available splendour of the establishment into the supreme effort of carpet-bedding and glass balls on pedestals in front of the house, in the hope that the stranger, carefully kept in that part, and on no account allowed to wander, will infer an equal magnificence throughout the entire domain; whereas he knows very well all the time that the landscape round the corner consists of fowls and dust-bins

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90. She wrote to me saying she was going to be the life companion of the finest thinker of the age; her people, so illiterate and so full of prejudices, could not, she supposed, be expected to appreciate the splendour of her prospects; she thanked heaven that her own education had saved her from such a laughable blindness; she could conceive nothing more glorious than marrying the man in all the world whom you most reverently admire, than being chosen as the sharer of his thoughts, and the partner of his intellectual joys

91. And I think of Wordsworth, its divine singer, who yet lost it so soon and could no longer see the splendour in the grass, the glory in the flower, and I ask myself with a sinking heart if it faded so quickly for him who saw it and sang it by God's grace to such perfection, how long, oh how long does the common soul, half blind, half dead, half dumb, keep its little, precious share?

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92. The way those nasturtiums blazed against the vast blue curtain of sea and sky that hung behind them, with no tree or bush anywhere near to shadow their fierce splendour, was a sight well worth coming to Lohme for

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93. The full splendour of her father's generosity in being pleased at her engagement was now revealed to her

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94. He went away back into the main garden along the path by the great herbaceous border then in a special splendour of tulips and all the clean magnificence of May, thinking with his eyes on the ground how different things would have been if when he was a curate he had been sane enough not to marry

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95. Oh, the magnificence of marriage, thought Ingeborg, beating her hands together, the splendour of its liberations! She would go off in the morning with the punt full of books, and spend long glorious days away in the forest lying on the green springy carpet of whortleberries, reading

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96. Ilse, full of importance, and dressed astonishingly in stockings and new spring garments, sat by her side with an eye to right and left in search of someone to witness her splendour

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97. The central fact of life, its core of splendour, he said to himself as, arrived at home, he hung up his hat in the passage and prepared to plunge with renewed appetite into his laboratory, was work; but, he added as he passed the open door of the sitting-room, and was reminded by its untidiness of domesticities, since one had to withdraw occasionally from the heat of that great middle light and refresh oneself in something cooler, one needed a place of relaxation where the interest was more attenuated, a ring of relative tepidity round the bright centre of one's life, and this ring was excellently supplied by the object commonly called the family circle

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98. After the years of inaction in Kökensee, just to go in a train to Berlin would have been tremendous enough to set her blood pulsing; and here she was going on and on, farther and farther, into more and more light, more and more colour and heat and splendour and all new things, till actually at last she would reach it, the heart of the world, and be in Italy

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99. But then it had been the very first time in her life that she had ever walked alone, and if words cannot describe the joy and triumph of it how was it likely that she should have been able to resist the temptation to stray aside up a lovely little lane that lured her on and on from one bend to another till it left her at last high up, breathless and dazzled, on the edge of the heath, with Exmoor rolling far away in purple waves to the sunset and all the splendour of the evening sky in her face? She had gone on, fascinated by the beauty of the place, and when she wanted to turn back found she had lost herself

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