magnific

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Two temples of magnific size Attract the curious traveller's eyes, That might be envied by the Greeks; Raised up by you in twenty weeks: Here gentle goddess Cloacine Receives all offerings at her shrine.

From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by Browning, William Ernst

Allow me to congratulate you," said he, "on your magnific success.

From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Coffin, Charles Carleton

He commenced the conversation in the most magnific style, and a sort of pioneering to his own vanity, he flattered me with such grossness!

From The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 by Gillman, James

Thus far, in magnific strain, A young poet soothed his vein, But he had nor prose nor numbers, To express a princess' slumbers.—

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles

One magnific pall Mantled in massive fold and fall His head, and coiled in snaky swathes About His feet: night's black, that bathes All else, broke, grizzled with despair, Against the soul of blackness there.

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald