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Sentences starting with splendor

Splendor and power are as hateful to me as the flowers yonder with their false dew. [10]

Sentences ending with splendor

Two men who were in advance of us rode through one of these and for a moment their garments shone with a more than regal splendor. [5]
The leader, who was a giant, and carried the smallest instrument, outshone all the others in his incongruous splendor. [4]
Utility and convenience took the place of show and splendor. [6]
He was charmed to be called "Callias," [The noble Athenian family of Callias was famed for its wealth and splendor. [10]
And now it struck her that it must be hard, very hard to die, in the midst of all this splendor. [10]
There has been something so simple, honest, genuine, in our Munich life, that we look back to it with longing eyes from this land of fancy, of hand-organ music, and squalid splendor. [4]
And one must remember that in those cheap times four hundred dollars was a salary of almost inconceivable splendor. [5]
It is a pathetic quenching of a sun which had risen in such splendor. [5]
His satrapy was one of the most important and profitable in the entire kingdom, and his household could bear a comparison with that of Cambyses in richness and splendor. [10]
The unceasing wheel of industry to-day had pause in the factories, workshops, storehouses and courts of justice, for all sorts and conditions of men were inspired by the same desire to celebrate Hadrian's visit with unheard-of splendor. [10]

Sentences containing splendor two or more times

The structure grew in her mind into barbaric splendor, but a barbaric splendor refined, which reveled in the exquisite adornment of the Alhambra itself. [4]
Is it not enough to sit at your window, and watch the clouds when they lift from the Mont Blanc range, disclosing splendor after splendor, from the Aiguille de Goute to the Aiguille Verte,--white needles which pierce the air for twelve thousand feet, until, jubilate! [4]
It was a deep and satisfying pleasure to see the sun create the new morning, and gradually, patiently, lovingly, clothe it on with splendor after splendor, and glory after glory, till the miracle was complete. [5]

More example sentences with the word splendor in them

You were speaking with enthusiasm of the splendor of the Roman Empire. [10]
The romantic traits which I have attributed to the character of my hero, who travelled throughout the world, climbing mountains to rejoice in the splendor of he rising sun, are authentic. [10]
The moon, which, when I took possession of my new apartments, was invisible, gradually gained each evening upon the darkness of the night, and at length rolled in full splendor above the towers, pouring a flood of tempered light into every court and hall. [4]
If the matron were as friendly with her as ever, her heart was perhaps still his; it was not the splendor of the purple that had led her astray, but the coercion of the tyrant. [10]
The house itself was well-fitted by its unusually palatial size and antique splendor to be the residence of the emperor's viceroy, and the Mukaukas, to whom it all belonged, had in fact held the office for a long time. [10]
Cambyses' first glance was bestowed on Nitetis; she sat by him in all the splendor and dignity of a queen, but looking very, very pale in her new purple robes. [10]
Syloson was a very handsome man too, and so remarkable for the good taste and splendor of his dress, that the youth of Naukratis prided themselves on imitating the cut and hang of his robes. [10]
He rested again until the sun was well up and gilding the great river with its splendor, and then he plunged into the stream. [5]
The senators sat trembling on their antique seats of gilt ivory, the relics of departed splendor imitated from those of the Roman senators, looking at each other and shrugging their shoulders while they listened to a letter which had just reached them from the hadi. [10]
The prefect's son, too, had been invited to the banquet of Seleukus; and when Caracalla heard from him and others of the splendor of the feast, he had begun to feel hungry. [10]
The splendor of this function is still remembered. [4]
It is not thin sunshine, but a royal profusion, a golden substance, a transforming quality, a vesture of splendor for all these Mediterranean shores. [4]
As a rule they seem drunk with health, and with the surprise of it, the wonder of it, the unspeakable glory and splendor of it, after a long, sober spell spent in inventing imaginary diseases and concreting them with doctor-stuff. [5]
As it was, they had not learned enough at school to doubt it, and the splendor of their father's success in making money had blinded them forever to any possible difference against them. [8]
As for himself, Theocritus, he would not fail to describe the splendor with which they had decorated their princely residence in Caesar's honor. [10]
They would see then how little she had cared for the splendor and wealth of empire; why, he himself knew how quickly everything was forgotten in Alexandria. [10]
The multitude cover their heads, and the rest of the procession moves by; first the Hungarian Guard in their indescribably brilliant and picturesque and beautiful uniform, inherited from the ages of barbaric splendor, and after them other mounted forces, a long and showy array. [5]
With it died the splendor and the power of the second city in the world; and of all the glories of the city of Serapis nothing now remains but a mighty column--[Known as Pompey's Pillar. [10]
What wonder that the sordid lights of work-day prudence should pale before the glory of a hope like theirs in the full splendor of its fruition? [5]
You shine in the glittering splendor, but we strike the Spanish chains with the sword, and I devote myself to our work. [10]
It was of the evening of his first arrival in Washington that he writes: "I emerged from dirt and darkness into the blazing splendor of Mrs. Madison's drawing-room. [4]
The ladies of the court gazed with delight at the red towers of the Alhambra, rising from amid shady groves, anticipating the time when the Catholic sovereigns should be enthroned within its walls, and its courts shine with the splendor of Spanish chivalry. [4]
Each new splendor that burst out of my visions of the future whirled me bodily over in bed or jerked me to a sitting posture just as if an electric battery had been applied to me. [5]
Let thy splendor streaming down Turn its pallid lilies brown, Till its darkening shades reveal Where his passion pressed its seal! [6]
Its vastness and splendor were felt to be somehow typical of the New World and of the cosmopolitan city. [4]
In their far-off splendor they rose upon our imaginations dim and huge, shadowy and awful, and it was a fearful thing to hear them spoken of as if they were mere men, and their acts open to comment and criticism. [5]
These driblets of splendor only feed the popular impatience. [4]
Above all this splendor hung a thousand lamps, shaped like lilies and tulips, and in the entrance hall stood a huge basket of roses to be strewn before the king when he should arrive. [10]
Nothing shows the splendor and wisdom of her military genius like her instant comprehension of the size of the change which has come about, and her instant perception of the right and only right way to take advantage of it. [5]
Is it then so terrible to live as empress, in splendor and honor? [10]
At a given signal thousands of lights appeared round the tiers of seats, and, if the splendor of the entertainment answered at all to that of the Alexandrian spectators, something fine indeed was to be expected. [10]
For he who shall be overthrown is no longer a mighty god but an idol bereft of his splendor and his dignity. [10]
One likes to see to what a splendor his species can come, even if the brains have all run down into the calves of the legs. [4]
She blazed and scintillated with a dazzling brilliance, a throbbing splendor, that made the moon seem a pale, sentimental invention. [4]
And when the sad pursuing constellations came to know and realize the bitter sorrow that was come upon them --note this idea--their hearts broke and their tears gushed forth, filling the vault of heaven with a fiery splendor, for those tears were falling stars. [5]
The great cupola rose to the blue sky as though it fain would greet the sister vault above with its own splendor, and the copper-plating which covered it shone as dazzling as a second sun. [10]
This struggle for riches and splendor corrupts the hearts of the people, foreign luxury has given a deadly blow to the simple manners of our citizens, and many an Egyptian has been taught by the Greeks to scoff at the gods of his fathers. [10]
We were all rich and in splendor, and our uncle had come from India. [4]
In the deep recesses of the forest suddenly flamed to the view, like the splashes of splendor on the somber canvas of an old Venetian, these wonders of color,--the glowing summer-heart of the woods. [4]
In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on. [7]
Because the astrologers predicted that it would shine in full splendor from evening till morning, I myself advised the late departure, turning night into day. [10]
The storm had passed away and the rain had ceased; the sky was clear and cloudless, and the moon poured its silvery light in lavish splendor, as though revived, on the temple and on the statues round the square. [10]
Her heart shrunk painfully within her, and she would have wished to grow smaller, and, instead of shining in splendor, to have found herself wrapped in a beggar's robe. [10]
We had taken one of the common people and set him up there, creating for the moment also a sort of royal family and a court for a background, in a splendor just as imposing for the passing hour as an imperial spectacle. [4]
As I remarked on the splendor of his ancestry he slapped his pocket, and exclaimed, half in pride and half in lamentation: "Yes, they had plenty of money; but what has become of it? [10]
So he went on building castles in the air, which melted and were renewed day after day, like the transient but unfailing splendor of the sunset. [4]
The minutes drift on and on and on, with not a sound but the ticking of the clock; at last the sun fires a sudden sheaf of rays into the ghostly tree and turns it into a white splendor of glittering diamonds. [5]
The few hundreds of years of Genoese and Venetian might and splendor were, to grave old Damascus, only a trifling scintillation hardly worth remembering. [5]
And the sons of these men who had passed through no school were already well-fitted and invited to give new splendor to cities in their decline, and new life to the learning of the countries they had subdued. [10]
As a sign of their anger the Immortals had sent the comet, that terrible star whose ominous splendor was increasing daily. [10]
To the south of the temple of Amon stood the king's palace, and near it, in more or less extensive gardens, rose the houses of the magnates of the kingdom, among which, one was distinguished by it splendor and extent. [10]
She was master of the situation, and saw before her a future of almost unlimited opportunity and splendor, except for one little obstacle. [4]
You would speak of the pale light of dawn, the tender flush that tinges the clouds as the glowing day-star rises from the waves, of the splendor of the sun-as glorious as truth and as warm as divine love. [10]
If the splendor of the lovely dream, that you call Sirona, has been clouded by my fault--" "Clouded? [10]
On a platform of rocks and mighty masonry rose a structure of wonderful magnificence and beauty, so brilliantly illuminated by the morning sun that its noble proportions and gorgeous colors showed in dazzling splendor and relief. [10]
The yearning wistfulness of her eyes changed to solemn splendor of joy. [13]
The cadaverous, half nude varlets that served in the establishment had nothing of poetry in their appearance, nothing of romance, nothing of Oriental splendor. [5]
Fair flowers of never dreamed of splendor and beauty blossomed in the heart of the weeping woman, and when at length her tears ceased, there was a great silence, but also a great glory within her and around her. [10]
Six months after my entry into journalism the grand "flush times" of Silverland began, and they continued with unabated splendor for three years. [5]
Politics without virtue, money-making without conscience, may result in great splendor, but as such an experiment is not new, its end can be predicted. [4]
When, a few minutes later, the litter was borne out of the church again, the sun had triumphed over the mists and was rising with blinding splendor in the cloudless sky. [10]
Not that Polly meant to be any different, or was, at heart; but, you know, she was so much absorbed in her new life of splendor, and perhaps I was a little old-fashioned. [4]
Such is Oriental luxury--such is Oriental splendor! [5]
Then the grey light of early dawn glimmered in the east, the sky began to brighten, and in the glowing splendor of the blushing morning rose solemnly in giant majesty the form of the sacred mountain. [10]
Every one that knew him, knew too that "suitable" with him meant as much as to say imperial splendor. [10]
Some of the king's own relations, are among the number, the aged Croesus, king of Lydia, too; we shall behold a marvellous splendor and magnificence! [10]
The shadow approached Joan slowly; the extremity of it reached her, flowed over her, clothed her in its awful splendor. [5]
On this day it was the king's intention to make an especial display of the wealth and splendor of his court, at a festival arranged in honor of his daughter's betrothal. [10]
Luck!--the splendor of it was beyond all imagination! [5]
So brilliant was it that all the space I floated in was full of the splendor. [4]
As I approached, it shone with a splendor never yet beheld on earth. [4]
Authority seemed to invest him with a new splendor. [5]
Hold it not in contempt; it is the humble step which will lead to grandeurs more worthy of the splendor of an origin like to thine. [5]
And how shall I describe the splendor of that city? [9]
Even our interested household could not follow her in all the changing splendor of her raiment. [4]
And a magnificent house it was, a palace, rather, that seemed to frown upon and bully insignificant me with its splendor, as I walked away from it towards town. [4]
For the last hour we had not seen a single vehicle, foot-passenger, or horseman; we had heard that all the neighboring population had assembled in Babylon to celebrate your birthday, gaze with wonder at the splendor of your court, and enjoy your liberality. [10]
The splendor of his apparel was proportioned to his personal beauty. [10]
But praise the Highest, not only in gratitude for the splendor of that which he has created, but for having given us the capacity for delight in his work. [10]
As Melissa dropped her veil the splendor of the scene, lighted up by numberless tapers and lamps, forced itself on her attention. [10]
At one time he would excite our admiration by the splendor of his outfit, and perhaps the next week he would seem to take equal pleasure in his slovenly or careless appearance. [6]
When the sky has long shone with unclouded splendor, and the air is so wonderfully clear that even the most distant mountain-peaks are distinctly visible, rain is not long delayed; and who can laugh heartily a long time without finally shedding tears like a mourner? [10]
The basilica, which had once been richly decorated, had been plundered by the Melchites in a fight between them and the Jacobites, and the impoverished city had not been in a position to restore the venerable church to anything approaching its original splendor. [10]
Oriental splendor and Greek elegance were combined in the decorations of the saloon of moderate size, in which Ptolemy Philometor was wont to prefer to hold high-festival with a few chosen friends. [10]
It had been found possible, by employing several thousand laborers, to erect this magnificent structure, in a few weeks, and nothing was lacking to it that could be desired, even by a king so accustomed as Rameses to luxury and splendor. [10]
With what a flood of splendor it deluged farmhouses and farms, and the broad sweep of level country! [4]
In a swift flash of thought she saw her own home with its wealth and splendor, and then the ship-builder's house-simple, chillingly bare, with its comfortless rooms; she felt as though she must perish, nipped and withered, in such a home. [10]
The gleams of festal splendor seemed interwoven with the laborious bustle on the quay like scraps of gold thread in a dull work-a-day garment. [10]
As her large eyes met those of Caesar with a flash of defiance, he frowned, and remarked satirically: "It seems to be the custom here to mourn in much splendor! [10]
Macaulay, in his Essay, has much to say about the splendor and horizonless magnitude of that equipment. [5]
I coveted his distinction and his financial splendor, but particularly and especially the long, strange journey he was going to make, and the curious new world he was going to explore. [5]
She would pay dearly for the splendor of the purple. [10]
No Eden suddenly dazzled our eye, no splendor burst upon it. [9]
But its splendor dazzled her and its fragrance presently sickened her. [10]
Tom's days were days of splendor and exultation to him, but his nights were seasons of horror. [5]
If her aunt could see her in all this splendor, she would probably be sadder than ever. [4]
From all we could gather, all those present were used to living in a palace, and took all the splendor quite as a matter of course. [4]
The newly arrived Chief and Associate Justices of the Territory, and other machinery of the government, were domiciled with less splendor. [5]
Or should I carry off my trophy undetected, and always from that time say to myself, when I looked upon her in the glory of youth and the splendor of beauty, "My lips have touched those roses and made their sweetness mine forever"? [6]
An Unpublished Poem, by my late Latin Tutor In candent ire the solar splendor flames; The foles, languescent, pend from arid rames; His humid front the cive, anheling, wipes, And dreams of erring on ventiferous ripes. [6]

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