How To Use Splendour In A Sentence
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Tasteful decor, melodious songs and shafts of sunlight from the ample windows provide the perfect ambience for appreciating the subtleties and splendours of curry cuisine.
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Of the gambling – booths there was a plentiful show, flourishing in all the splendour of carpeted ground, striped hangings, crimson cloth, pinnacled roofs, geranium pots, and livery servants.
Nicholas Nickleby
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He is blinded and befogged by two things: (1) his (i.e. their) aristocratism, and again (2) his satisfaction in splendour and get-up, provided it is attached to moral greatness.
Cyropaedia
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Pavilions of Splendour is the brainchild of Gwyn Headley who says the idea was born from a growing demand for unusual properties.
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It must be confessed, however, that certain influences darkened the style even before it had reached maturity; chief among these was a gloomy hierarchical splendour, and a ritual rigidity, which to-day we yet refer to, quite properly, as Byzantinism.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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The palace has been restored to its former splendour.
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But, by 2008, it is hoped that visitors will be able to stroll along a new hour-long trail and glimpse some of the splendours and ideals of past eras.
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Certainly, Theotimus, beauty is without effect, unprofitable and dead, if light and splendour do not make it lively and effective, whence we term colours lively when they have light and lustre.
Treatise on the Love of God
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But how shall I forget the solemn splendour of a second course, which was served up in great state by Stripes in a silver dish and cove; a napkin round his dirty thumbs; and consisted of a landrail, not much bigger than a corpulent sparrow.
The Book of Snobs
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I came down and, in a pillared hall within the temple, the emperor stood in regal splendour - a queenly woman beside him - caught in a moment of deep crisis.
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Romani, Imperium Populi Romani, Fortuna Populi Romani_, glitter out of the voluminous periods with a splendour that hardly any other words could give.
Latin Literature
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It's a cameraman's film and mostly about riding dangerously through mulga, about rounding up scrub bulls, about branding and marking with the mass of Mt Leichhardt rising up in blue splendour beyond.
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The moral is obvious, and as old as history; but herein lay the secret of Byron's potency, that he could remint and issue in fresh splendour the familiar coinage of the world's wit.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
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The land in all its splendour was rich and the dark red soil held all the rain and mist which seeped into the ground feeding the crops that grew in abundance.
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The normally exultant cheers of a vast Scottish Grand National crowd were muted because the splendour of a truly great race was bought at a very dear price.
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Cruise the Mediterranean in unaccustomed splendour aboard the Royal Clipper, the only square-sailed full-rigged ship in the world with five masts.
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The foreign ministers are meeting in the splendour of Oktyabrskaya Hotel in central Moscow.
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Even in ruin the Colosseum is a magnificent edifice of great structural interest and aesthetic splendour.
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Thick tapestry wall hangings vie in splendour with the rich cloth covering her prayer table, on which an exquisitely illuminated Book of Hours lies open.
Foundations « Tales from the Reading Room
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hallowed fountains," and "solemn sound;" but in all Gray's odes there is a kind of cumbrous splendour which we wish away.
Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2
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Just a 15-minute drive away, Branston offers another chance to relax and unwind in some splendour but requires a tad more energy.
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We have few tall, pointed cypress trees to match in height and splendour those in the Como gardens.
Times, Sunday Times
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Villa owners are now getting together to revive their former splendour, realising they have a cultural treasure trove to offer tourists.
The Sun
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All these would make a coherent composition where colour and form would carry the underlying theme in flowering splendour from May until August.
The Education of a Gardener
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WE'VE seen the splendour in which the energy fat cats live.
The Sun
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Amid all the tumult and clamour of the teeming crowds who throng the premises, the hall stands dignified in its majestic splendour.
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Comic roles are skilfully handled by Massenet and come across well: Polish contralto Ewa Podles mustered grim regal splendour as the stepmother, with Madeleine Pierard and Kai Rüütel – both Jette Parker Young Artists – lively as the indistinguishably stupid sisters.
Cendrillon; Rinaldo – review
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But the splendour of the details reflected the skill of the seamstresses who spend hundreds of hours on each made-to-measure couture creation.
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If you are a first-timer or a seasoned pro planning a trip to snowy climes this season, there is plenty to ensure that whether you end up spending your time on the bunny slopes, black runs or with a chocolat chaud and your tail between your legs in the chalet, you can do so in style and splendour rather than in a pair of ill-fitting hand-me-down salopettes.
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The point was the inventive richness of the language, the splendour of the vocabulary, the unstaunchable flow of imagination and invective. . .
So No More He'll Go A-Roving
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It is debatable whether an exhibition such as this should show the splendours of a collection or, more historically, also reveal the lapses of the collector's taste.
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A lovey-dovey couple whispering sweet nothings amidst nature's breathtaking splendour, besides a couple of glass paintings are other brilliant pieces created by the young and upcoming artist.
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The soft music of the distant string band and -- oh, it was all dashed with a touch of Babylonic splendour with due regard for the decorum required by modern civilisation, and Nancy was sufficiently young and unused to delight in every moment of it.
The Man in the Twilight
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The event at the Charterhouse, where the young Elizabeth I stayed before acceding to the English throne, featured musicians, a court jester and yeomen guards in a bid to recreate the regal splendour of the Tudor age.
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They may have the Himalayas in all their splendour laid out before them, walks in pine-scented forests, lakes of a blue you can die for, wild flowers that would make mafia dons go gaga, and what is it that they demand?
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Until then, the play is set in a sort of Scots mock - baronial splendour, filled with tinctures and libraries of apothecaries' texts, and complete with thunderous thunderbox.
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Ornamental trees add a touch of splendour to long avenues, while leafy plants in an arbour soften the sunlight.
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The film is directed with a technical bravura and visual splendour.
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Without its gilded splendour and cheap bars, some peers might want to call it a day anyway.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even in ruin the Colosseum is a magnificent edifice of great structural interest and aesthetic splendour.
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Portugal's sixteenth-century king Sebastian, ascribed messianic splendours after his death, was a total disaster in life.
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The city is regaining a little of its former splendour.
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Now we have a ghastly split between the mundane, apparently unsusceptible to any form of artistic transfiguration, and pure music whose splendour and misery are that it is uncontaminated by reality.
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But there is something in the whole crew, jovial or saturnine, which is found nowhere else, and which, whether in full splendour as in Shakespere, or in occasional glimmers as in
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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The castle rises in solitary splendour on the fringe of the desert.
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What's more, it's easy-to-use, complete with foldout maps and detailed descriptions of the sights and splendours of Bulgaria that the authors have explored and enjoyed.
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For complexity of form and for the splendour of its corries and glens, this hill has few equals in the central Highlands.
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'Brecknel and Turner's' flamed and swealed in profusion on the table; while every now and then an expiring lamp on the sideboards or brackets proclaimed the unwonted splendour of the scene, and added a flavour to the repast not contemplated by the cook.
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
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But if most tourists come seeking the splendours of ancient Persia, it is the tussle between past and present - tradition and change - that is the key to understanding modern Iran.
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Arabian art, according to Streisand, has always been one of great wonder, splendour, and beauty.
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The great success of the first Tutankhamun exhibition resided in the sheer beauty and splendour of its contents, which triumphed over rather lacklustre presentation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Amy, in her tiny spangled trapeze-artist's costume, was awed by the profligate splendour of it all.
THE WHITE DOVE
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Between Central Station down near the River Clyde and sloping up towards Sauchiehall Street lies half a square mile of a dozen streets that meet and bisect each other in a grid of Georgian architectural splendour.
Shine a light on Glasgow's seedy side streets | Kevin McKenna
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The palace has been restored to its former splendour.
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The house has been restored to its original splendour.
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Former railwaymen have told me what it was like to be in the place during its splendour.
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Perhaps Douban wished he had forborne this question, for, in the very moment when he put it, the door of the chamber opened, and the Emperor entered, with his daughter hanging upon his arm, dressed with simplicity, yet with becoming splendour.
Count Robert of Paris
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To those who did not think so deeply, and they were the greater number by a hundred to one, the splendour of Prince John's rheno, (i.e. fur tippet,) the richness of his cloak, lined with the most costly sables, his maroquin boots and golden spurs, together with the grace with which he managed his palfrey, were sufficient to merit clamorous applause.
Ivanhoe. A Romance
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She made a little move in which he read her slight distaste for all this splendour, for the empty civilities of the old Empire.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Yet, for all the majestic splendour of the castles and palaces, it is still the empty fields that continue to capture the imagination.
Times, Sunday Times
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A butterfly emerged in its full splendour a week later.
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The film is directed with a technical bravura and visual splendour.
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The author of novels which, with all their luxurious splendour, can only be called hothouses of morbid sentiment, has become the apostle of Italian imperialism, and more than any other single man provoked Italy to throw herself into the great adventure of the War.
Recent Developments in European Thought
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Vapours enchant the distances, bathing peaks in bewitchments of blue and grey of a hundred tones, transforming naked cliffs to amethyst, stretching spectral gauzes across the topazine morning, magnifying the splendour of noon by effacing the horizon, filling the evening with smoke of gold, bronzing the waters, banding the sundown with ghostly purple and green of nacre.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series
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Arabian art, according to Streisand, has always been one of great wonder, splendour, and beauty.
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Holidaymakers come back year after year and, amid the splendours of the Alps, they insist on bourgeois comforts and good Bavarian cooking.
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The scenes of the Illiad illapsed in glowing colours to her fancy -- scenes, once the haunt of heroes -- now lonely, and in ruins; but which still shone, in the poet's strain, in all their youthful splendour.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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transcendental platan," breaking into foliage and flower at the summit of its smooth tall bole; the splendour of flame leaping from the dull fuel of gums and straw.
Robert Browning
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On the top floor, the famous Rainbow Room supper club had been returned to its former splendour and was a very fashionable place to dine.
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Transition from maidenhood to what is called the matronly had been too rapid; it was emphasised by her costume, which cried aloud in its excess of modish splendour.
The Crown of Life
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There was a vivid contrast between the splendour of the gold braid and decoration of the uniform and the jagged holes from the bullet which took Nelson's life.
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The region boasts many ancient towns of interest and historic cities whose architecture reveals the splendours of the past.
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And now instead of bursting forth into cries of delighted wonder, as I had expected, my companion stood mute and still, her hands tight-clasped, viewing now the splendour of these falling waters, now the foam-sprent deeps below, like one quite dumbfounded.
Black Bartlemy's Treasure
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For all its crumbling decay, the faded splendour, its shortages and its collapsed economy, Cuba is a vibrant and thrilling place to visit.
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We'll live in a tipi camp, learn about the plains environment, practice some traditional arts, attend a powwow, and hike in the splendour of the northern Rockies.
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A modern bank building has enveloped the Palace Hotel, ornate in nineteenth-century splendour.
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Meanwhile on land, the spring flowers were also showing in some splendour - these spring squill had formed dense mats on some rocky parts of the machair, while the burns were a mass of marsh marigolds in parts.
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However, while for me the splendour of Prague was quite overwhelming, our guided tour and riverboat trip gave a great introduction to the marvels and history of this ancient city.
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The foreign ministers are meeting in the splendour of Oktyabrskaya Hotel in central Moscow.
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Gladly will I bestir the deedy hands, everywhere behold where thou hast need of me; bepraise the rich pomp of thy splendour; pursue unwearied the lovely harmonies of thy skilled handicraft; gladly contemplate the thoughtful pace of thy mighty, radiant clock; explore the balance of the forces and the laws of the wondrous play of countless worlds and their seasons; but true to the
Rampolli
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It is a creature of solitude, travelling alone, and a splendour in the bush.
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While Tokay struggled through socialism to re-emerge in splendour, Cotnari, which used to appear in Paris restaurants as ‘Pearle de la Moldovi’ faded from sight.
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CVG - As substantially as the audiovisual splendour that gives you the opinion of existence in a actual war, the nearly unceasing consort of AI-controlled aggroup family makes the game's events see important … For the stunning single-player crusade lonely this is a mettlesome worth effort rattling agog about.
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How often will that poor country regret the splendour of a Court, and that Lit de Justice, sur lequel le Roi et ses sujets avoient coutume de dormir si tranquillement!
George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
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* Munus hoc quod in Christo est, -- in consummationem seculi nobiscum; hoc expectationis nostrae solatium, hoc in donorum operationibus futurae spei pignus est; hoc mentium lumen, hic splendour animorum est.
Pneumatologia
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That foremost one of Dasarha's race also gave unto Subhadra as her peculium ten carrier-loads of first class gold possessing the splendour of fire, some purified and some in a state of ore.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
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The Queen's building itself has a magnificence and a splendour that befits its reputation.
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The splendour and brilliance of man is often encompassed in art, but doesn't this very same art have a godlike quality to it, that most average humans cant even dream of reaching.
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The foreign ministers are meeting in the splendour of Oktyabrskaya Hotel in central Moscow.
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The middle ground may be humdrum, but when Tetra Splendour aim high, they score big - raw, powerful songs filled with the feel of a brooding landscape.
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Then he was shooting even more randomly, missing, bouncing his way up the back lanes towards Boot, through the grey-rocked splendour of the Esk valley, Bow Fell looming like mountain deity.
Derrick Bird: dangerous thoughts about the trigger inside that will forever haunt Cumbria
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With its headily urban recasting of the myth, it was given even more splendour by leading you out onto Waterloo Bridge: one of my favourite views in London, especially very early in the morning.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege
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Rising from the verdant splendour of the Ukrainian countryside, Zaporozhye looks like a diabolical inferno; a city on fire.
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Cameron was confident that relaxing and re-creating in the midst of mountain splendour would uplift creative energies and artistic inspiration.
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* Munus hoc quod in Christo est, -- in consummationem seculi nobiscum; hoc expectationis nostrae solatium, hoc in donorum operationibus futurae spei pignus est; hoc mentium lumen, hic splendour animorum est.
Pneumatologia
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I had always thought she was beautiful, but at that moment Lakshmibai looked like an angel pavilioned in splendour.
Fiancée
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But beyond the baize door there were shadows, there was dust, windows draped in cobwebs, before which hung curtains tattered and faded, drooping from their poles like the old banners that, slowly rotting in great cathedrals, sway in the quiet air where no wind is – stirred, perhaps, by the breath of Fame's invisible trumpet to the air of old splendours and glories.
The House of Arden
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The palace has now been restored to its original splendour.
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October 9th, 2009 INDORE - A week-long 'Global Cinema Festival' began with Bollywood actors adding to the splendour of the event in Indore.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
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She there appears surrounded by the luxuriance of vegetable life: she pours forth her bounty with a profusion which the partizans of utility would call prodigality, and covers the earth with a splendour of beauty, which serves no other purpose than to minister to the delight of human existence.
Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.
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His foppishness was the foppishness of his youth, and to the last he wandered through Paris clad in the splendour of the days when young men were "lions," and when the quarrel between classicism and romanticism was vital.
The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1
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See Tomkins with a telescope and marine jacket; young Nathan and young Abrams, already bedizened in jewellery, and rivalling the sun in oriental splendour; yonder poor invalid crawling along in her chair; yonder jolly fat lady examining the Brighton pebbles (I actually once saw a lady buy one), and her children wondering at the sticking-plaister portraits with gold hair, and gold stocks, and prodigious high-heeled boots, miracles of art, and cheap at seven-and-sixpence!
The Newcomes
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The gaffe was made at the annual dinner of the Perth Bar Association, in the regal splendour of the city's George Hotel.
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There the new bride house erupted in ornate concrete splendour.
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‘It was a foreshadowing of heaven, a foretaste of the splendours that were to come,’ says Sarah.
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He lives with his wife, Mary Todd, and their children in considerable splendour in a magnificent period house in Armagh.
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The jagged Caucasus reared above these lush hills and even before Mestia it was clear that Svaneti's fabled splendour was no exaggeration.
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Madam, – Patrick Skene Catling, in reviewing the book of the day, Splendour & Squalor, states that “Schadenfreude is a German word with no one-word English equivalent”.
English Schadenfreude
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Going through my relaxation exercises at night, I would imagine myself astride their considerable girth, soaring through the sky in regal splendour.
My Virtual Life « Tales from the Reading Room
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He has become familiar with the trials and tribulations that have tortured Ireland over the years but still says that the people and splendour of the country make it a bit special.
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As in the Eastern hills, jewels and metals blaze with greater splendour in consequence of their adjacence to the Sun, even so the lowest order blazes with splendour in consequence of their association with the good.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
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The foreign ministers are meeting in the splendour of Oktyabrskaya Hotel in central Moscow.
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But if most tourists come seeking the splendours of ancient Persia, it is the tussle between past and present - tradition and change - that is the key to understanding modern Iran.
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Holidaymakers come back year after year and, amid the splendours of the Alps, they insist on bourgeois comforts and good Bavarian cooking.
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They bought a decaying 16th-century manor house and restored it to its original splendour.
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Stairs strewn with empty cider bottles lead down the wynd, just a few hundred yards down from the splendour of the Advocates Library and St Giles Cathedral, to the pubs and clubs of the Cowgate.
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And your splendour illumined the glooms that blent:
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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‘Chaukhandi’ stupa today stands neatly set in lush green lawns, wrapped in the quietude and mystique of history, a fitting introduction to the splendours of the once buried city of Sarnath which lies just ahead.
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Mademoiselle Zélie St. Pierre, on this particular Thursday, even assumed a "robe de soie," deemed in economical Labassecour an article of hazardous splendour and luxury; nay, it was remarked that she sent for a "coiffeur" to dress her hair that morning; there were pupils acute enough to discover that she had bedewed her handkerchief and her hands with a new and fashionable perfume.
Villette
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The bandsmen, all dressed in their serious splendour, played at a determined pace, which quickened the pulse.
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It was there that the Rishis and the gods Varuna, Agni, Prajapati, Narayana also called Hari, Mahadeva and the illustrious Grandsire of great splendour, appointed the resplendent Bhrigu to officiate at a sacrifice.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1
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It will take a lot of repair work before the theatre regains its former splendour.
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Well two lucky rhymesters have won double passes to Splendour in the Grass on July 19-20 with their entries in the Echo's Splendour competition.
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The parade showcased the nation's cultural legacy with pomp, colour and splendour.
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Gold bracelets and anklets, and rings on his fingers and toes thickly studded with gems completed the picture of barbaric splendour, ‘their piece exceeding that of a fine city’.
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Golf at its most challenging will be at the forefront of a new course growing tall amid wooded splendour.
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Just as the trek started to take its physical toll, we reached the crest of the hill and the Blue Nile Falls appeared in theatrical splendour.
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The hotel has the splendour of a nineteenth - century mansion.
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Montagu was extremely impressed by the splendours of the French court.
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A butterfly emerged in its full splendour a week later.
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The town nestles in a bay which looks over to the hills around Loch Striven, adding a misty splendour to the scene.
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Only the gilding of the room in some degree brought itself into keeping with the splendours outside, stray darts of light seizing upon it and lengthening themselves out along fillet, quirk, arris, and moulding, till wasted away.
The Hand of Ethelberta
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There was something frankly disgusting about the wealth and splendour on display.
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Just as the trek started to take its physical toll, we reached the crest of the hill and the Blue Nile Falls appeared in theatrical splendour.
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There below lay Paris in all its splendour.
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But you were far away; your delighted soul was absorbed in cherishing the plant of human liberty, which has since blossomed with independent splendour over your happy provinces.
Memoirs of Mary Robinson
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Christ would be born, not of an empress or queen, for he appeared not in outward pomp or splendour, but of a virgin, to teach us spiritual purity, to die to all the delights of sense, and so to keep ourselves unspotted from the world and the flesh that we may be presented chaste virgins to Christ.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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Since the restoration, and what may be called the disestablishment of Buddhism, the shrine of Iyeyasu has been shorn of all its glories of ritual and its magnificent Buddhist paraphernalia; the 200 priests who gave it splendour are scattered, and six Shinto priests alternately attend upon it as much for the purpose of selling tickets of admission as for any priestly duties.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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The sense is that the modern - language, music, presentation - is too thin, we're told, to carry the transcendent and we have to go back to the old to recapture the splendour, solemnity and dignity of the Mass.
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The women would put on their green Josephs and gaudiest quilted petticoats or their tabinet gowns of Waterloo whose splendour kirk or market poorly revealed for the shawls that must cover them.
Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
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The angel looked up again, casting a baleful scowl at the Academy, in all its splendour.
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He sees His Majesty, the King, going to open Parliament with all the ceremonies of a thousand years; he sees the Lord Mayor of the capital of the world moving in pomp and splendour to the Guildhall.
The Imperial Conference and Canada's Economic Problems
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The flashing of torches and the beautiful radiance of blue lights (technically, Bengal lights) upon the heads of our horses; the fine effect of such a showery and ghostly illumination falling upon our flowers and glittering laurels [Footnote: "_Glittering laurels_": -- I must observe that the colour of _green_ suffers almost a spiritual change and exaltation under the effect of Bengal lights.]; whilst all around ourselves, that formed a centre of light, the darkness gathered on the rear and flanks in massy blackness: these optical splendours, together with the prodigious enthusiasm of the people, composed a picture at once scenical and affecting, theatrical and holy.
The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc
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The painter tried to depict the splendour of the sunset.
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But what Harris could not do was to get near to Hogarth: his task was, as it were, to pluck Venus from the firmament; but he mused, he mused upon her, with musing astrologic eye, with grand patience, fascinated by her very splendours, not without hope.
The Lord of the Sea
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The Victorians had a dream that Whitby could match the gilded splendour of Harrogate, and the thermal spring waters of Bath.
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Even in ruin the Colosseum is a magnificent edifice of great structural interest and aesthetic splendour.
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They dined in a special suite in glorious splendour.
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Nevertheless, a brochure promoting the island in the 1890s stated: ‘Here may the invalid laze the hours away and, book in hand, become intoxicated with the splendour of the scenery and the sounds of the unceasing sea’.
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This was describing in a very poetical manner the splendour of the micaceous and talcy slates of his country!
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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Even the standard bulb-shaped balloons are an eyeful in their polychromatic splendour, shown to best effect at the ‘night glows,’ when the balloons are lit up inside like Chinese lanterns to the strains of classical music.
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The Company was in a highly flourishing condition, as you may suppose, when one of its directors, who at the same time was one of the honestest men alive, thought it was his duty to live in the splendour in which we now behold him.
The Newcomes
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You look around here and you can't help but realize the magnificent splendour of nature.
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Slessor, for all the splendours of his verse, had passed his best days.
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I've kept auld Doom in times o 'rowth and splendour, and noo I'm spared to see't rouped, the laird a dyvour and a nameless wanderer ower the face o' the earth.
Doom Castle
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In their diversity and variety, they encompass various coalescing and opposing interests and ideas to give them a many-coloured rainbow splendour.
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Cruise the Mediterranean in unaccustomed splendour aboard the Royal Clipper, the only square-sailed full-rigged ship in the world with five masts.
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But, by 2008, it is hoped that visitors will be able to stroll along a new hour-long trail and glimpse some of the splendours and ideals of past eras.
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But what this show lacks in visual splendour it more than makes up for in intellectual fascination.
Times, Sunday Times
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Slessor, for all the splendours of his verse, had passed his best days.
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Each produced many paintings showing the massed splendour of up to seven people mounted on their taunting steeds, dressed in their finest taunting 'yellows' of purple underwired bra and orange waders with the specially-bred and trained packs of taunting hamsters 'showing' and baying, eager to be off taunting.
Archive 2009-04-01
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Rising from the verdant splendour of the Ukrainian countryside, Zaporozhye looks like a diabolical inferno; a city on fire.
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They were reared in splendour and tender affection, in respectful bearing and in the perfection of training; and they were instructed in penmanship and science and the arts of government and horsemanship, till they attained the extreme accomplishments and the utmost limit of beauty and loveliness; both men and women being ravished by their charms.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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We see them dreaming of the splendours of imperialist Russia, but get very little sense of the monotony they wish to escape.
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Amy, in her tiny spangled trapeze-artist's costume, was awed by the profligate splendour of it all.
THE WHITE DOVE
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The perfection of your arms would add glory to kingly splendour with their touch.
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A new gondola cable car will take you to dizzy heights, enabling you to appreciate the mountains in their true splendour.
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The splendours preserved today would impress any tourist.
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It is debatable whether an exhibition such as this should show the splendours of a collection or, more historically, also reveal the lapses of the collector's taste.
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Just as the trek started to take its physical toll, we reached the crest of the hill and the Blue Nile Falls appeared in theatrical splendour.
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This is a place to take your foot off the gas and soak up the visual splendour in an unhurried atmosphere.
Times, Sunday Times
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Switzerland, the bold rocks and rich though narrow valleys of the frontiers of Toorkisth [= a] n offer all the charms of novelty; the lower ranges of hills are gloomy and shrubless, contrasting strikingly with the dazzling, yet distant splendour of the snowy mountains.
A Peep into Toorkisthhan
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Tasteful decor, melodious songs and shafts of sunlight from the ample windows provide the perfect ambience for appreciating the subtleties and splendours of curry cuisine.
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Take Me Out - in all its shameful, neon, shouty, glorified knocking-shop splendour - has became a pivotal part of Saturday night TV.
The Guardian World News
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Somehow this tsarist splendour seems quite at home in a suburban semi.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once more I write with the splendours of the quenchless fires in sight, and the usual world seems twilight and commonplace by the fierce glare of Halemaumau, and the fitful glare of the other and loftier flame, which is burning ten thousand feet higher in lonely
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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Their distinctive approach emphasized balance rather than excess, with plenty of motivic and rhythmic impetus infused with coloristic splendour.
The Times Literary Supplement
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There is more to Rajasthan than just its royal splendour or amazing camel rides through never-ending sand dunes.
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This article is accompanied by a misty photo of the heritage building, pre-fire, in tourist-free solitary splendour.
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Trekking is one means of discovering the country along the route, the lie of the land and enjoying nature in all its beauty and splendour.
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When he got a bit of sunshine, the old lazzarone basked in it; he prated about his own affairs and past splendour, and all the lords, generals, and Lord – Lieutenants he had ever known.
The History of Pendennis
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A walk across the Salzach over Mozartsteg or Mozart's bridge, the quaint footbridge across the river, and one is right in the middle of Salzburg's old city and its visual splendours.
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Each vied with each in the splendour of the scarlet, purple, and gold upon stern and foreship.
A Victor of Salamis
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HER daddy the King of Pop lay at her feet in the splendour of a golden casket festooned with red roses.
The Sun
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At least the night ended in splendour.
Times, Sunday Times
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WE'VE seen the splendour in which the energy fat cats live.
The Sun
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Then wet and dry nurses were provided for the boy and he was reared in splendour and delight, until he reached the age of fifteen.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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That Supreme Soul is called Damodara because unlike the gods his effulgence is increate and his own, and also because he hath self-control and great splendour.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7
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Since the restoration, and what may be called the disestablishment of Buddhism, the shrine of Iyeyasu has been shorn of all its glories of ritual and its magnificent Buddhist paraphernalia; the 200 priests who gave it splendour are scattered, and six Shinto priests alternately attend upon it as much for the purpose of selling tickets of admission as for any priestly duties.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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Yet another cartoon hero has made his way from the relative anonymity of comic book pages to the grandness and splendour of the big screen.
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Shakspearian, who could step from the musings of Windsor and the beautiful heroine, all romance and ethereal splendour, to the lasses in their gay kirtles, and Hob and Raaf with their rustic "daffing," as true to the life as the Ayrshire clowns of Burns, and all the clumsy yet genial gambols of the village festival.
Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets
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It has been resurrected to its original luminous splendour after a decade of painstaking work.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is the splendour of an invariable region, from which is absent the ephemeral beauty of forest, verdure, or herbage; the splendour of eternal matter, affranchised from all the instability of life; the geological splendour of the world before the creation.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure
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Where round the print of thorns, in thornlike splendour, 55
Old and New
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Hence his love of images which convey these sudden transformations, ” the worm, putting forth in autumn its “two wondrous winglets,” [110] the “transcendental platan,” breaking into foliage and flower at the summit of its smooth tall bole; the splendour of flame leaping from the dull fuel of gums and straw.
Robert Browning
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The majestic splendour of this gulf, its strategetic importance, have at all times attracted the attention of warriors.
Normandy, Illustrated, Part 3
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They who are convinced of His will, which is the law of laws, and the sovereign of sovereigns, cannot think it reprehensible that this, our corporate realty and homage, that this our recognition of a signiory paramount -- I had almost said this oblation of the state itself -- as a worthy offering on the high altar of universal praise, should be performed with modest splendour and unassuming state.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics
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But when mad waves spring, braceletted with foam, towards us in the angriness of love crying a strange name, tossing as they come repeated invitations in the gay exuberance of unexplained desire, we can forget the sad splendour and play at wilfulness until the gods require renewed inevitable hopeless calm and the foam dies and we again subside into our catalepsy, dreaming foam, while the dry shore awaits another tide.
Experience, Figuration, the Avant-Garde, My Grouse : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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The land in all its splendour was rich and the dark red soil held all the rain and mist which seeped into the ground feeding the crops that grew in abundance.
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But some were jealous of the great fame of Columbus, and they made light of his discoveries. he lives in splendour;
This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States
