splendent
Example Sentences
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Even when he gazed into her blue eyes he was conscious of a more flaming glory than lay in the heavens of their depths; a splendent maze that shed a brightness around her.
From Under the Rose by Frederic Stewart Isham
It seemed that this splendent host must have been placed here by some magic hand, alert, vigorous, immaculate, eager for the battle.
From A Soldier of Virginia by Burton Egbert Stevenson
Lo! how down they sweep To basic Good where, massing, they remount, Till, mid God's "Many Mansions," high they leap, Forming forever, joy's most splendent fount!
From Freedom, Truth and Beauty by Edward Doyle
It has lofty galleries; wherefrom dames of honour, splendent in gaze d'or; foreign Diplomacies, and other gilt-edged white-frilled individuals to the number of two thousand,—may sit and look.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
The triumph strode splendent over sea and shore, subduing waves and rocks to a path for its mighty entrance into that dark cave on the human coast.
From Malcolm by George MacDonald