splendent
Example Sentences
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And so the tiny Cadet-drillings have ended; long Files of Giants, splendent in gold-lace and grenadier-caps, have succeeded; and earnest work instead of mimic, in that matter, has begun.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Thomas Carlyle
They had enticed the splendent light-fish into their caverns to give illumination.
From Seed of the Arctic Ice by Harry Bates
Seest not the sheen Of links their splendent tresses fling?
From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Sir Richard Francis Burton
The splendent sun no splendour can display, Till on gross things he dash his broken ray, From cloud and tree and flower re-tossed in prismy spray.
From Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters by Francis Thompson
Those who know thee—once splendent in power and in pelf, King erstwhile in Zion—uplifting the hand, Shall curse thee, Zedekiah.
From Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes by Stefan Zweig
