Use splendid in a sentence
Sentences starting with splendid
- Splendid man, he was. [5]
- Splendid carriages, with splendid people in them and splendid servants outside, were arriving and departing by several other noble gateways that pierced the royal enclosure. [5]
- Splendid berry the raspberry, when the strawberry has gone. [4]
- Splendid creature without her trimmings. [6]
- Splendid pageants were exhibited here, in presence of the Emperor, the great ministers of State, the nobles, and vast audiences of citizens of smaller consequence. [5]
- Splendid preparations had been made for his reception, and the man who took the lead in the festive arrangements with a zeal that was doubly effective from his composed demeanor was no less a person than the Regent Ani. [10]
- Splendid style. [6]
- Splendid people! [10]
Sentences ending with splendid
- The third year we could, easily sell 1,000,000 bottles in the United States and----" "O, splendid! [5]
- He felt only the garish and the splendid. [11]
- Is it not splendid? [10]
- But it was splendid. [5]
- Her performance was splendid. [11]
- Yes, she is splendid! [2]
- That would be splendid! [10]
- As we approached our house he was amazed, and cried out: '"How splendid! [5]
- The other articles of furniture were large and shabby, but had once been splendid. [10]
- The treasure-hunting, the loss in the cave--it's all exciting and splendid. [5]
Short sentences using splendid
- He has splendid things. [2]
- Sunrise is a splendid tonic. [11]
- He has got splendid soldiers. [2]
- It was a splendid sight. [11]
- Oh, what a splendid reign! [2]
- He is a splendid fighter. [11]
- A great, a splendid artist! [10]
- What splendid trees it has! [4]
- Oh, how fine, how splendid! [2]
- Wild, rugged, unshorn--yet how splendid! [13]
Sentences containing splendid two or more times
- They have splendid grit, the Old Settlers, splendid staying power. [5]
More example sentences with the word splendid in them
- I think what you're doing is splendid, Brooks, only--" here she gave him an appealing, rather commiserating look--"only I do wish you would take more interest in--in underlying principles. [9]
- What may delight you will cost bitter tears to many others, and so let us both hope that this splendid spectacle may now have reached its climax, and soon may come to an end. [10]
- He has tact--as you saw--and would make a wonderful master of ceremonies, a splendid comptroller of the household and equerry and lord-chamberlain in one. [11]
- Every one says you have done such splendid work for England, and that now you can have anything you want. [11]
- She was the wreck of splendid possibilities. [11]
- At first he would not; but when Caroche said that it was only his fun, that he meant nothing against Francois, the young man recited the words slowly--an epitaph on one who was little better than a prize-fighter, a splendid bully. [11]
- It was a wonderful piece of luck, a splendid piece of luck; the glory of it made him dizzy. [5]
- No gentle, tender-hearted woman laughed like that; but she was grand, splendid, wonderful in her wrath. [10]
- All this he withheld from the older men and merely briefly described the splendid banquet which Caesarion, pallid and listless as ever, had directed, and Antyllus especially had enlivened with the most reckless mirth. [10]
- A partition, covered with ill-wrought images and a few gilt ornaments, divided it from the main body of the church, and the whole edifice produced an impression that was neither splendid nor particularly edifying. [10]
- The landowner to whom Nicholas went was a bachelor, an old cavalryman, a horse fancier, a sportsman, the possessor of some century-old brandy and some old Hungarian wine, who had a snuggery where he smoked, and who owned some splendid horses. [2]
- I hardly knew what I was going to talk about, but it went off in splendid style. [5]
- Yes, out we went through the harbour of Kingston, beyond the splendid defences of Port Royal and the men-of-war there, past the Palisadoes and Rock Fort, and away to the place of treasure-trove. [11]
- And I listened well, and then came up here and made a splendid contract for a Quaker City book of 5 or 600 large pages, with illustrations, the manuscript to be placed in the publishers' hands by the middle of July. [5]
- While Russia was well, a foreigner could serve her and be a splendid minister; but as soon as she is in danger she needs one of her own kin. [2]
- The night was well forward, and an air of recklessness and dissipation pervaded this splendid room in De Lancy Scovel's house. [11]
- And then there was the journey, the heat in the city, the grateful sight of the Deerfield, the splendid morning, the old barn, the watering-trough, the view from the hill everything just as it used to be. [4]
- She said it was splendid, but it looked like somebody else's house. [4]
- John said it was splendid, and he would lend it to her, for which she thanked him, and said, with such a sweet expression, she should be so glad to have it from him. [4]
- When the forenoon was nearly gone, she recognized with a pang that this most splendid episode of her life was almost over, that nothing could prolong it, that nothing quite its equal could ever fall to her fortune again. [5]
- I think it was most like opals washing about in waves and flashing out their splendid fires. [5]
- But their dialogue was interrupted: the first misfortune of this luckless night had brought its attendant: the body of Rustem, the splendid and radiantly youthful Rustem, the faithful Persian leader of the caravan, was borne into the hall, senseless. [10]
- What she felt was hideous; malignant spite possessed her; but it gave her rapture--delicious rapture--a flower of hell, but with splendid petals and intoxicating perfume. [10]
- The sunset light was falling upon the splendid panorama and softening it. [4]
- Think of it--it was by command of that Italian loafer yonder on his imperial throne in the Geneva prison that this splendid multitude was assembled there; and the kings and emperors that were entering the church from a side street were there by his will. [5]
- His favorite son was already at the head of the ministers of the temple at Memphis, and he has vowed to build magnificent temples and to bring splendid offerings to the Immortals. [10]
- Crowning the shadows was a splendid helmet of light, rich with the dyes of the morning; the pines were touched with a brilliant if austere warmth. [11]
- For within the walls of the city, and on the shore of Beauport, protected by its mud flats--a splendid moat--the French more than held their own. [11]
- Down this space walked the Archbishop and his canons, and after them followed those five stately figures in splendid harness, each bearing his feudal banner--and riding! [5]
- And on this voyage I was reminded of Josiah Royce's splendid summary of the American philosophy--of the American religion as set forth by William James: "The spirit of the frontiers-man, of the gold-seeker or the home-builder transferred to the metaphysical or to the religious realm. [9]
- In one noble volume of sound of all the fifty-seven Haves in the Italian language burst forth in an exalting and splendid confusion. [5]
- Here was the very man: with a proud, daring, homeless look, a splendid body, and a kind of cavalier conceit. [11]
- The interior is very magnificent also, and has some splendid stained glass. [4]
- There it was vast and lone, Splendid in power, breaking against the stone Walls of the world in thunder symphony. [11]
- Instead of their usual splendid attire, both wore dark robes, and the royal consort and mother, who mourned her first-born son, leaned motionless, with drooping head, against her kingly husband's shoulder. [10]
- When Porphyro looked upon Madeline at her prayers in the chapel, it was too much for him: "'She seemed a splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven:--Porphyro grew faint, She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from earthly taint. [6]
- Then she straightened up, folded her white hands in her lap and became a splendid ice-berg. [5]
- My time is up, and if you'll keep quiet for two minutes I'll tell you something about Miss Herts, the woman who conceived this splendid idea. [5]
- She gave herself up for lost; but whatever fate might have in store for her, life lay open before him; he would have time to prove his splendid powers, and that he would do so, as she would have him do it, she felt certain. [10]
- So the Catachoobee University had its splendid new building--as great a contrast to the shanties from which its pupils came as is the Capitol at Washington to the huts of a third of its population. [4]
- With the nations turned to see, he had made a gallant and splendid fight, and now he was a prisoner in a French fortress. [11]
- His garden was turned into a corn-field, and the splendid ground-floor rooms, with their mosaics and pictures, are now dirty stables for cows and sheep, and pigs are fed in the rooms that belonged to Hathor and Dorothea. [10]
- Why the whole town is talking about the war already, and do you think that if Psamtik knew he'd got such splendid game in his net, he would let you loose? [10]
- Why, it's just too splendid to believe! [5]
- We passed close to the park and saw two deer... and what a splendid house! [2]
- One must go to the Bois de Boulogne to see fashionable dressing, splendid equipages and stunning liveries, and to the Faubourg St. Antoine to see vice, misery, hunger, rags, dirt--but in the thoroughfares of Naples these things are all mixed together. [5]
- It was splendid to see; and everybody said he had never come up to that speech in his life before, and never could do it again. [5]
- Others had come to see the imperial barge, which had been newly furnished up, and which was splendid enough to attract even the luxurious Alexandrians. [10]
- She was good to look at: warm, lovable, fascinating in her little daring wickednesses; a fiery little animal, full of splendid impulses, gifted with a perilous temperament: and she loved him. [11]
- One must try to imagine those solid masses of splendid color, one above another, up and up, against the blue sky, and the Indian sun turning them all to beds of fire and flame. [5]
- This is going to be a splendid winter night for fireside reading, anyway. [5]
- It is splendid to be a man like that--but it is given to few to be. [5]
- Was there yet time--was he yet capable of atoning for what was done by some great and splendid deed? [10]
- In almost no time his flowing reasonings carried him to the point of even half believing he was doing Roxy a splendid surreptitious service in selling her "down the river. [5]
- We mounted slowly through splendid forests, specially of fine chestnuts and hemlocks. [4]
- This edifice, which, though its exterior was almost wholly devoid of ornament, nevertheless presented a majestic aspect on account of its vast size, adjoined a splendid park, whose leafy groups of ancient trees merged into the forest of Soignies. [10]
- The thought that this splendid creature had once courted her, loved her, kissed her--that he had once been hers, and that she had lost him to another, was a pang like physical agony, mounting from her heart to her brain. [10]
- I do not think so; but no matter about me: there is the field--a grand one, a splendid one, a sublime one, and absolutely unoccupied. [5]
- What have these things to do with the splendid act? [5]
- Why, the brave things she did, the splendid things! [5]
- What cause could they have for dissatisfaction after such splendid booty, although they did not yet know that a war with the Parthians was in prospect? [10]
- Three days after, these joyful events were celebrated by a splendid banquet at Herr Van der Werff's house. [10]
- Caesar must see them, they must be exhibited, and already in his mind's eye, he saw himself refusing order after order, and accepting only the most splendid where all were good. [10]
- Others would succeed them rapidly, coming up the center while their predecessors filed down the sides; so that the whole field was a moving mass of splendid color and glancing steel. [4]
- Her repugnance of the woman was as nothing beside her splendid feeling of relief. [11]
- It is on the whole a splendid display for the sake of four sleepy men, banging along in a coach,--an insignificant little vehicle with two horses. [4]
- Nefert rejoiced in the splendid person of the poet, and frequently repeated that he was as like her dead uncle--the father of Paaker, the chief-pioneer--as if he were his younger brother. [10]
- He has finished the splendid palace I saw in the radiant moonlight the other night, and is doing many other things for the salvation of Greece, they say. [5]
- Nicholas, who, as the roads were in splendid condition, wanted to take them all for a drive in his troyka, proposed to take with them about a dozen of the serf mummers and drive to "Uncle's. [2]
- After her came the river-god Nile, the bridegroom of the marriage, studied from the famous statue carried away from Alexandria by the Romans: a splendid and mighty bearded man, resting against an urn. [10]
- That splendid building, the pride of the city and the delight of men's eyes, destroyed--swept away like dust from the road! [10]
- The pen and the pencil contribute to this splendid result in the daily chronicle of our life. [4]
- The top of the Niederwald is a splendid forest of trees, which no impious Frenchman has been allowed to trim, and cut into allees of arches, taking one in thought across the water to the free Adirondacks. [4]
- Don't you know the moment you look on a landscape, on a splendid building, whether it is beautiful to you? [11]
- The dinner, both the Lenten and the other fare, was splendid, yet he could not feel quite at ease till the end of the meal. [2]
- At the palace-gates the latter dispersed to their several abodes, in order to exchange the simple Persian leather hunting-costume for the splendid Median court-dress. [10]
- The mansion of the late and left Floyd is now a seminary, and not far from it is the Stonewall Jackson Institute, in the midst of a grove of splendid oaks, whose stately boles and wide-spreading branches give a dignity to educational life. [4]
- We go to the King's ball, when we get a chance, and are glad of a sight of the splendid uniforms and the glittering orders. [5]
- But even in the humblest garb he would have been a handsome--a splendid youth, and his mother's pride! [10]
- The abilities of the Honourable Tom Ferrol lay in a splendid plausibility, a spontaneous blarney. [11]
- The Honourable was the first to reach the point of vantage, and to look down upon the vast and wandering fissures, the frigid bulwarks, the great fortresses of ice, the ceaseless snows, the aisles of this mountain sanctuary through which Nature's splendid anthems rolled. [11]
- How splendid had the festivals of Isis been, how gladly and rapturously had she sung in their honor! [10]
- They were on the eve, perhaps, of a splendid victory; but, perchance, on the other hand, their foot was already on the plank that led from the shore of life to Charon's bark. [10]
- The houses of the embalmers, which earlier in the evening had shone brightly out of the darkness, now made a less splendid display. [10]
- The evening after the decision he had attended a splendid banquet with Romero, Vargas, Mendoza, Tassis, and the next morning the prisoners, who had fallen into the hands of his men, were brought before him. [10]
- Titianus falls before the dancer Theocritus, the noble Papinian before the murderer Caracalla, our splendid Alexander before such a wretch as Zminis; and divine reason lets it all happen, and allows human reason to proclaim the law. [10]
- And now came the Crusader home, bronzed and battle-scarred, but bringing a great and splendid fame to lay at the feet of his bride. [5]
- Austen went to the college which his father had attended,--a college of splendid American traditions,--and his career there might well have puzzled a father of far greater tolerance and catholicity. [9]
- One must respect the business-brain that produced it--the splendid pluck and impudence that ventured to promulgate it, anyway. [5]
- But I saw that you were going through a crisis; that you might, with your powers, build up your life into a splendid and useful thing. [9]
- But Fulkerson said that was the splendid side of Dryfoos. [8]
- His figure and that of his horse, which reared uneasily beneath him, were flooded in a crimson glow--a splendid picture! [10]
- The sergeant saw that mist fronting Sonnenberg rise up, and show ten thousand splendid cavalry and fifty thousand infantry, with a king and a prince to lead them down upon those malleable but unmoving squares of French infantry. [11]
- Add to this that Kunz was a well-favored, slender youth; but as compared with Herdegen's splendid looks and stalwart frame he looked no more than common. [10]
- She desired always that her visible corporeal self should be admired and desired, that men should say, "What a splendid creature! [11]
- First, she heard that Count Ribadavia's splendid palace would be prepared for her son, that the sons of noble families would be assigned to attend him, and that a body-guard of Spaniards and Germans and a train of his own were at his command. [10]
- But we knew that a great English Excursion party, and also the Viceroy of Egypt, in his splendid yacht, had been refused an audience within the last fortnight, so we thought it not safe to try it. [5]
- Allow me to thank you for this splendid reception, and I now bid you farewell. [7]
- I wanted to tell you what an interest we take in this splendid thing you are doing. [9]
- Noble clumps of tall old trees rose above the green grass plots and splendid shrubs. [10]
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