magnific

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

From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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 Robert Browning by Dowden, Edward

Jaquis sized and summed her up in the one word "magnific."

From The Last Spike And Other Railroad Stories by Warman, Cy

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

Or if occasion shall lead, to imitate those magnific odes and hymns, wherein Pindarus and Callimachus are in most things worthy, some others in their frame judicious, in their matter most, and end faulty.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)