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Sentences ending with grandeur

To bed with ye, and dream of Brandenburgh and grandeur! [5]
It is his work if she cleaves to the religious belief of her people, if she who is a Hellene to the last drop of blood loves Egypt, and is ready to make any sacrifice for her independence and grandeur. [10]
This was the wife of his dreams, the proud woman, with whom the Eletto desired to share power and grandeur. [10]
All that he was, which was different from the people she had known, she magnified, so that to her he had a distant, overwhelming sort of grandeur. [11]
The Roman notion was barbarous grandeur. [4]
And the stupendous wagon wheel was still in the supremacy of its unspeakable grandeur. [5]
Strangers were taken to see it, as it rose in its simple grandeur. [4]
Nature is apt to be belittled by this sort of display, but the noble dignity of the vast arch of stone was superior to this trifling, and even had a sort of mystery added to its imposing grandeur. [4]
People accustomed to the monster mile-wide Mississippi, grow accustomed to associating the term "river" with a high degree of watery grandeur. [5]
When we consider the immensity of the British Empire in territory, population, and trade, it requires a stern exercise of faith to believe in the figures which represent Australasia's contribution to the Empire's commercial grandeur. [5]

Sentences containing grandeur two or more times

What are the glory that was Greece, the grandeur that was Rome, compared to the glory and grandeur and majesty of a perfected morality such as you see before you? [5]

More example sentences with the word grandeur in them

If the writers wouldn't exaggerate so, talk about 'the sublimity of the mountains challenging the eternal grandeur of the sea'! [4]
They were jubilant with vanity over their new grandeur and the illustrious trouble they were making. [5]
Lali was moving with a little touch of grandeur in her manner and a more than ordinary deliberation. [11]
This is he whom _I_ would show what grandeur was, in my house of seventy rooms and seven-and-twenty servants! [5]
One poor chap, who had no other grandeur to offer, said with tolerably manifest pride in the remembrance: "Well, Tom Sawyer he licked me once. [5]
The driver's beat was pretty long, and his sleeping-time at the stations pretty short, sometimes; and so, but for the grandeur of his position his would have been a sorry life, as well as a hard and a wearing one. [5]
As Prince Maurice was at that time the great soldier of Protestantism, without clearly scanning the grandeur of the field in which he was a chief actor, or foreseeing the vastness of its future, so the Advocate was its statesman and its prophet. [6]
It is the union of simplicity with grandeur, for which we have all been looking. [4]
It was marvellous to see how this untutored man, by mere self-discipline and the chastening of his own spirit, had outgrown all meretricious arts, and found his own way to the grandeur and strength of absolute simplicity. [7]
Did Charles desire to rear it there to the grandeur and splendour for whose sake she had yielded him? [10]
He then retired to his lonely grandeur and we climbed on up among the bristling peaks and the ragged clouds. [5]
This was grandeur, this was fame. [5]
Authorities agree that there is no such tremendous "layout" of snowy Alpine magnitude, grandeur, and sublimity to be seen from any other accessible point as the tourist may see from the summit of the Riffelberg. [5]
My sense of their grandeur and their noble beauty was neither lost nor impaired; I had gained a new interest in the mountains without losing the old ones. [5]
The sight of the tumbling mass of white water, and the gloomy and colossal grandeur of the Devil's Slide, a buttress of the hills, was very fine. [11]
It is when the right words are conspicuous that they thunder: The glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome! [5]
The grandeur of the place awed me, and well it might. [9]
Consequently, everything in the nature of modern fashion and grandeur was a new and wonderful revelation to him. [5]
The grandeur of the approaching supper party and the fear of Mrs. Merrill hung very heavy over him; nor was Jethro's mind completely at rest. [9]
I will remark that I do not wear seal-skin for grandeur, but because I found, when I used to lecture in the winter, that nothing else was able to keep a man warm sometimes, in these high latitudes. [5]
To you, more than to any others, the privilege is given to assure that happiness and swell that grandeur, and to link your own names therewith forever. [7]
It was more than forty miles in circumference, and its walls enclosed buildings surpassing in size and grandeur even the Pyramids and the temples of Thebes. [10]
All these things summed up make grandeur. [5]
In every nation sufficiently advanced to have made effigies of their gods or of their deified rulers, the sculptors no doubt have endeavoured to express their highest ideal of beauty and grandeur. [1]
For show, and style, and grandeur, and thunder and lightning and fireworks it outclasses all the previous inventions of man, and raises the limit on the Pope. [5]
He enjoyed his splendid clothes, and ordered more: he found his four hundred servants too few for his proper grandeur, and trebled them. [5]
It is the spirit of the street transferred to the drawing-room; indiscriminating, levelling, but doubtless finally wholesome, and witnessing the immensity of the place, if not consenting to the grandeur of reputations or presences. [8]
Now, when he sought for subjects, beside the smaller and more simple ones appeared mighty and manifold ones, often of superhuman grandeur. [10]
These pillars are small, and doubtless the edifices they adorned were distinguished more for elegance than grandeur. [5]
He confessed that she was a noble, a majestic woman, but the very memory of this grandeur now sent a chill through his veins. [10]
The more he saw of his chief the Senator, the more he honored him, and the more conspicuously the moral grandeur of his character appeared to stand out. [5]
I could not resist the sight of the grandeur and glory with which he has covered France. [2]
The learning, the personal character, the sacredness of their office, tended, to give the New England clergy of past generations a kind of aristocratic dignity, a personal grandeur, much more felt in the days when class distinctions were recognized less unwillingly than at present. [6]
He intended to perform its duties, and not only attract and please the beholder's eyes through his works, but elevate his heart and mind, as beauty, truth, grandeur, and eternity uplifted his own soul. [10]
Alixe's face was pale and sorrowful, and yet it had a dignity and self-reliance that gave it a kind of grandeur. [11]
Its grandeur has outlived the high commercial prosperity and the political importance that made it a necessity, or rather a possibility. [5]
Now he felt only the grandeur of what he owed her. [10]
It suited only one, lauded a grandeur and dignity which stood firm as indestructible cliffs, and which no one here possessed save the Emperor Charles. [10]
He lingered longest on Buddhism; and it surprises me now to discover how well, with the aids then at his command, he understood the touching charity of Buddha and the deep wisdom and grandeur of his doctrine. [10]
I fared sumptuously on bread when flour was $200 a barrel and had beans for dinner every Sunday, when none but bloated aristocrats could afford such grandeur. [5]
The discredited rulers of the world can oppose no reasonable ideal to the insensate Napoleonic ideal of glory and grandeur. [2]
They are relics of the grandeur of Genoa's palmy days--the days when she was a great commercial and maritime power several centuries ago. [5]
The common schoolhouses of Rockland were dwarfed by the grandeur of the Apollinean Institute. [6]
And the state of feeling we should produce in the public mind would make a boom of perfectly unprecedented grandeur for E. O. W. [8]
What a wonder of architectural beauty and grandeur this edifice must have been when it was new! [5]
But it was not till I had visited the same spot a dozen times, that I came to a right comprehension of the grandeur of the scene. [5]
The grandeur of mountains depends mostly on the state of the atmosphere. [4]
However humble I might feel in such a presence, I should be so clad in the grandeur of the new discoveries, inventions, ideas, I had to impart to him that I should seem to myself like the ambassador of an Emperor. [6]
Filey seems to me much altered; more lodging-houses--some of them very handsome--have been built; the sea has all its old grandeur. [14]
Whereas formerly a man was honored only according to the amount of money he possessed, his grandeur was measured now by the number of votes he wielded. [5]
And when Felion looked up towards Shaknon and Margath, a light came in his eyes, for they were wise and quiet, and watched the world, and something of their grandeur drew about him like a cloak. [11]
The touch of lightness in his reply served to emphasize the hitherto unsuspected fact that sportsmanship in Trixton Brent was not merely a code, but assumed something of the grandeur of a principle. [9]
He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spirit at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur. [5]
They stand at large; they are intruded upon and elbowed by neighboring domes and summits, and their grandeur is diminished and fails of effect. [5]
Within thirty-six hours Kilauea has sprung from its flameless sleep into sulphurous life and red roaring grandeur. [11]
People who are judges of art, find in the execution a grandeur which has not been equalled in this country, and an expression which has not been approached in any. [5]
Now he knew it, and was striving toward the goal attainable by the artist alone among mortals--to hold intercourse with the deity, and by creations full of its essence elevate the world to its grandeur and beauty. [10]
Afterward, in London, it was a pleasure to me to see this fantastic vagabond come marching into the lobby of the hotel in his grand-ducal way, for he always had some new imaginary grandeur to develop--there was nothing stale about him but his clothes. [5]
But Ephraim thought it grand enough, and yet acknowledged a homelike quality in its grandeur. [9]
There was one isolated piece of table furniture that bore about it a touching air of grandeur in misfortune. [5]
At ancient Ayassalook, in the midst of a forbidding desert, we came upon long lines of ruined aqueducts, and other remnants of architectural grandeur, that told us plainly enough we were nearing what had been a metropolis, once. [5]
It still looms in my memory with undiminished grandeur. [5]
Their simplicity, grandeur, imperishability, speaking symbolism, shame all the pretentious and fragile works of human art around them. [6]
He alone--with his ideal of glory and grandeur developed in Italy and Egypt, his insane self-adulation, his boldness in crime and frankness in lying--he alone could justify what had to be done. [2]
She filled one's idea of what an empress ought to be, when she rose up in her unapproachable grandeur and moved superbly out of that place. [5]
For Twichell and I have had a long walk in the woods and I got to telling him about old Mississippi days of steam-boating glory and grandeur as I saw them (during 5 years) from the pilothouse. [5]
Without interfering with human destiny, she stands above it in sublime grandeur and typical dignity. [10]
They had been, however, like books of many pages, closely written, in Arabic, in a crabbed characteristic hand, and full of the sorrow and grandeur and misery of the East. [11]
Clement knew that his hasty entanglement had limited his possibilities of happiness in one direction, and he felt that there was a certain grandeur in the recompense of working out his defeated instincts through the ambitious medium of his noble art. [6]
Once he allowed himself to be guided to the house where she lived, but he would not knock at Paulina's door and seemed overawed by the grandeur of the house. [10]
Then she congratulated him, and begged him not to forget her entirely amid his grandeur. [10]
Fate had raised her son to the summit of earthly grandeur and saved him from every clanger. [10]
Other events have happened as startling as this, but none that possessed so peculiarly all the characteristics of the favorite "item" of the present day, magnified into grandeur and sublimity by the high rank, fame, and social and political standing of the actors in it. [5]
His recent experiences had had a kind of grandeur about them; it was not thus that he had remembered her in the hour when he had called upon her in the plains, and the Indian had heard his cry. [11]
With unification and grandeur, what more can you want? [5]
It is such grandeur, too, to the cub, to get a chance to give an order; for often the pilot will simply say, 'Let her go about! [5]
To increase the grandeur of his family and render it the most powerful reigning house in the world, he had become prematurely old; had undertaken superhuman tasks of toil and care; even now he would permit himself no repose. [10]
Imagine all this grandeur in a play-house "kingdom" whose population falls absolutely short of sixty thousand souls! [5]
In point of grandeur and beauty it surpasses Mt. [4]
There is nothing gives glory and grandeur and romance and mystery to a place like the impending presence of a high mountain. [6]
This Lake of Geneva is said to combine the robust mountain grandeur of Luzerne with all the softness of atmosphere of Lake Maggiore. [4]
I had lived for four months the roughest of lives, and the room brought before me so sharply the contrast between my estate and the grandeur and elegance in which Dorothy lived, that my spirits fell as I looked about me. [9]
You trample my father and me underfoot, to exalt the grandeur of your master. [10]
Windsor Castle, which everybody knows, or can easily learn, all about, is one of the largest of those huge caverns in which the descendants of the original cave men, when they have reached the height of human grandeur, delight to shelter themselves. [6]
I saw how every fresh onset led you to greater splendour, higher renown, and more exalted grandeur. [10]
There is no estimating the pride I took in this grandeur, or the affection that began to swell and grow in me for those people. [5]
If he still enjoys the pleasures offered, he believes that he can thus mitigate for himself the burden of defeat, and diminish the grandeur of the conqueror's victory. [10]
In 1808 the Emperor Alexander went to Erfurt for a fresh interview with the Emperor Napoleon, and in the upper circles of Petersburg there was much talk of the grandeur of this important meeting. [2]
A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary," gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. [5]
He desired to display to these very gentlemen in every inch of his person his superior power and grandeur, and especially not to be inferior to them in chivalrous bearing. [10]
Her glory is departed, and with her crumbling grandeur of wharves and palaces about her she sits among her stagnant lagoons, forlorn and beggared, forgotten of the world. [5]
How poor, and cheap, and trivial these gew-gaws seemed in presence of the solemnity, the grandeur, the awful majesty of Death! [5]
A fireplace is, besides, a private laboratory, where one can witness the most brilliant chemical experiments, minor conflagrations only wanting the grandeur of cities on fire. [4]
She would only behold with her eyes what she had often enough imagined with the utmost distinctness--the great monarch divested of his grandeur and all his dignities. [10]
He has already been called by all other titles that symbolize human grandeur, and he ought to rise to this one, the grandest of all. [5]
Though Nitetis had been brought up among the huge temples and palaces of Egypt, she was still astonished at the size and grandeur of this gigantic city. [10]
She had not been able to give them to him, and undoubtedly he owed much to his own powers and to the favour of his royal brother, but Barbara was firmly convinced that her prayers had raised him to his present grandeur. [10]
Now was Brigham become a second Andrew Johnson in the small beginning and steady progress of his official grandeur. [5]
He alleged it as another proof of the versatility of the American mind, and of the grandeur of institutions and opportunities that let every man grow to his full size, so that any man in America could run the concern if necessary. [8]
They were frayed and stained and shabby, yet they seemed all of a piece with some new grandeur come upon the man. [9]

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