Splendour
in example sentence
A new society would spring up in a day just as in dreams, an immense town with the
splendour
of a mirage, in which each citizen lived by his work, and took his share in the common joys.
More example sentences with word splendour
The lush green jungle settings also add to the visual
splendour
on show.
It portrays some of the
splendour
of the age along with a lot of the squalor.
And Souvarine, who was listening, exhibited on his pale, girlish face a silent contempt--the crushing contempt of the man who was willing to yield his life in obscurity without even gaining the
splendour
of martyrdom.
But the uneasiness of her new position, or perhaps the disturbance caused by the presence of this man, had sufficed to make her believe that she at last felt that wondrous passion which, till then, like a great bird with rose-coloured wings, hung in the
splendour
of the skies of poesy; and now she could not think that the calm in which she lived was the happiness she had dreamed.
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