Use splendour in a sentence
Sentences ending with splendour
- As the friends reached the landing-place the brass dome of the Serapeum, which towered above everything, was glittering with dazzling splendour. [10]
- It was a perfect day, and as the brilliant procession wound down the great rock from the castle, in ever-increasing, glittering line, the effect was mediaeval in its glowing splendour. [11]
- When she waked it was near sun-down, the storm had ceased, and, as on the night before, the sky was stained with colour and drowned in splendour. [11]
- The pension allowed her enabled her to hire a pretty house, and to furnish it with a certain degree of splendour. [10]
- Nothing was gone from its lustre, nothing robbed it of its splendour. [11]
- Now, crushed and feeble, she presented a pitiable image of powerless yet offensively hollow splendour. [10]
- Mud barges were fairy palaces; Arab punts beautiful gondolas; the ragged Egyptians on the banks became picturesque; and the desolate country behind them had a wide vestibule of splendour. [11]
- He was not easily moved by vastness or splendour. [11]
- Curtains of mauve and saffron-red were hung behind them, and through a break of cloud fringing the horizon a yellow glow poured, to touch the tips of the pyramids with poignant splendour. [11]
Sentences containing splendour two or more times
- The splendour of youth is its madness, and the splendour of that madness is its unconquerable belief. [11]
More example sentences with the word splendour in them
- Radiant is he, with his great splendour stored, Thy glory, Lord, confessing. [10]
- By the open window at the foot of a bed in the Stay Awhile Hospital a woman gazed into the saffron splendour with an intentness which seemed to make all her body listen. [11]
- And so they were, in effect--at least they could exhibit it from their windows, and did--for a consideration--whenever a returning king or hero gave it a fleeting splendour, for there was no place like it for affording a long, straight, uninterrupted view of marching columns. [5]
- Its showy splendour, visible for a long distance, occupied the wide space between the door of the house and the windows of the upper story. [10]
- She, too, went to rest in a joyous, happy mood, and, as she lay in her narrow bed, asked herself whether she could not renounce her ardent longing for wealth and splendour and be content with a modest life at Wolf's side. [10]
- Did Charles desire to rear it there to the grandeur and splendour for whose sake she had yielded him? [10]
- As a rule they seem drunk with health, and with the surprise of it, the wonder of it, the unspeakable glory and splendour of it, after a long sober spell spent in inventing imaginary diseases and concreting them with doctor-stuff. [5]
- And up through the splendour, and the shadows, and the loneliness, and the austere warmth, must our travellers go. [11]
- The curtains in the pink bedroom were drawn, and on the bed, in all its splendour of lace and roses, was spread out the dinner-gown-a chef-d'oeuvre of Madame Barriere's as yet unworn. [9]
- She saw in the codicil the bridge which would lead her son to splendour and magnificence, and up to the last hour of his life the Emperor Charles had also remembered her. [10]
- Nor is it strange that variations in the tail-feathers of the Urosticte should have been specially selected for the sake of ornament, for the next succeeding genus in the family takes its name of Metallura from the splendour of these feathers. [1]
- Like every outward splendour, fame dazzles the eyes of men. [10]
- After a youth spent in splendour she had retired to the cloister as superior, and there she now lay unveiled, rigid, and yellow, although every feature had retained the form it had in death. [10]
- Barine had already seen this magnificent hall, and others still more beautiful in the Sebasteum, and the splendour therefore neither excited nor abashed her; only she would fain have avoided the numerous train of courtiers. [10]
- And she isn't quite sure the splendour of a medical professor's position is superior to that of an author. [11]
- Once again, and perhaps for the last time, she had renewed the splendour of her young womanhood. [11]
- Here the capital of wealthy, flourishing Brabant certainly looked very unlike what she had expected from Gombert's stories; and how little share she had had hitherto in the splendour which on the drive to Landshut she had expected to find in Brussels! [10]
- What unprecedented scenes of splendour had I not devised for the celebration of the victory, the triumph--nay, even the entry into Rome! [10]
- In the splendour of it all, he had only raged and stormed, hating his fellowman, waiting, however hopelessly, for the day when he should see Marcile and the man who had taken her from him. [11]
- May the second not only aid you to gain the splendour of a crown, but, above all, instil into your soul the satisfaction with that longed-for highest happiness which your mother's heart desires for you! [10]
- He was the more impressive because in the midst of wealth and splendour he remained poor: he had more than once bought turquoises and opals and horses and saddlery, which he paid for in instalments, like any little merchant. [11]
- Now it was mastered by the dreams he had dreamed of the East: the desert skies, high and clear and burning, the desert sunsets, plaintive and peaceful and unvaried--one lovely diffusion, in which day dies without splendour and in a glow of pain. [11]
- I wonder why it is that to-day I feel more than I ever felt before the rare splendour of your person. [11]
- There was in it all the faith of years, all the truth of womanhood, all the splendour of discovery, all that which a man can see but once in a human face and be himself. [11]
- He remembered her in the glory of her youth, in the splendour of her beauty. [11]
- As his gloomy imagination pictured the future, when Madelinette should return and see him as he was and cease to love him--to build up his Seigneurial honour to an undue importance, to give his position a fictitious splendour, became a mania with him. [11]
- In the East I have seen the day-star set more brilliantly, but never met with a more harmonious and lovely splendour of colour than on summer evenings in the Mark, except in Holland on the shore of the North Sea. [10]
- For an instant, however, he saw with new eyes that primary eloquence of woman life, the unspent splendour of youth, the warm joy of the material being, the mystery of maidenhood in all its efflorescence. [11]
- To be suddenly hoisted, naked and gory, from the common stocks to the Alpine altitude and splendour of an Earldom, seemed to him the last possibility in the line of the grotesque. [5]
- She carried her head, weighted by its splendour of golden hair, as an Eastern woman carries a goulah of water. [11]
- The blessings she had besought for him, and for which she had placed her own heart on the rack, had become his-glory and splendour, fame and honour. [10]
- He had fared far and wide in his adventures and amours when he had gold in plenty; and he had swung more than one Gorgio woman in the wild dance of sentiment, dazzling them by the splendour of his passion. [11]
- I saw how every fresh onset led you to greater splendour, higher renown, and more exalted grandeur. [10]
- The fisherman's daughter, Dione, often called them to the strand to admire the galleys adorned with fabulous splendour, garlanded with flowers, and echoing with the music of lutes and the melody of songs. [10]
- She was a creature of rare splendour, variety and vanity. [11]
- He was not confused, but the glitter and splendour, the Oriental gorgeousness of the picture into which he stepped, excited his eye, roused some new sense in him. [11]
- She had not been overcome by the splendour of his retinue and table, or by the magnificence of his guests; though the military commander-in-chief and the temporary admiral on the station did their utmost to entertain her, and some of the local big-wigs were pompous. [11]
- The funeral had been as gorgeous as the dead man's love of splendour could have desired. [10]
- To secure splendour and grandeur for him, she had yielded to the most cruel demand, and what had been the result of this sacrifice? [10]
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