Word Finder - splendid

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Possessing or displaying splendor; shining; very bright.

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a splendid sun

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Showy; magnificent; sumptuous; pompous.

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a splendid pageant

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Brilliant, excellent, of a very high standard.

Molly thought this was a splendid story.

He has splendid things.

And we too have had a splendid march.

The splendid forests, of which there are.

Cicero is splendid, but his orations are very difficult to translate.

It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and the springy motion of my iron steed.

What a splendid reign the Emperor Alexander's might have been!

Your grenadiers were splendid, by heaven!

She'll make a splendid princess!

The second and even more singular fact was the absence of any inhabitant of this splendid place.

He was staying in less splendid quarters a few blocks away.

But I'm a splendid imitation of one.

They consisted of a box for cards, of splendid workmanship, a bright- blue Sevres tea cup with shepherdesses depicted on it and with a lid, and a gold snuffbox with the count's portrait on the lid which Pierre had had done by a miniaturist in Petersburg.

He has got splendid soldiers.

I have his "Jungle-Book" in raised print, and what a splendid, refreshing book it is!

The small torrent of Rothwein, which flows into the Wurzener Save, forms near Veldes the splendid series of cascades known as the Rothwein Fall.

How splendid! said Natasha.

His unremitting labours impaired his health and shortened his splendid career at Durham.

Thomas Gage, who visited it in 1665, describes it as a splendid city; and in 1685 it yielded rich booty to William Dampier.

They have attained to high rank in all branches of the public service, and have shown most splendid instances of far-sighted and generous philanthropy.

The great hall is one of the most splendid of its kind in Europe.

Princess Ozma, dressed in her most splendid robes of state, sat in the magnificent emerald throne, with her jewelled sceptre in her hand and her sparkling coronet upon her fair brow.

I had a splendid time; the toasts and speeches were great fun.

Why has fate given you two such splendid children?

Kaisarieh is the headquarters of the American mission in Cappadocia, which has several churches and schools for boys and girls and does splendid medical work.

The Diwan-i-Am is a splendid building measuring zoo ft.

I'm a splendid worker.

We have had some splendid toboganning this month.

We had a splendid time in Memphis, but I didn't rest much.

I had a splendid card all ready, as if it were the fun of the game which interested him most.

Natasha rose and curtsied to the splendid countess.

It is remarkable for its fine tower and chime of bells, and contains the splendid allegorical monument of William the Silent, executed by Hendrik de Keyser and his son Pieter about 1621, and the tomb of Hugo Grotius, born in Delft in 1583, whose statue, erected in 1886, stands in the market-place outside the church.

Xerxes II., who reigned for a very short time, could scarcely have obtained so splendid a monument, and still less could the usurper Sogdianus (Secydianus).

The two great lights of the Gothic school are Geijer, mainly in prose, and Tegner, in his splendid and copious verse.

How splendid! said he to himself when a cleanly laid table was moved up to him with savory beef tea, or when he lay down for the night on a soft clean bed, or when he remembered that the French had gone and that his wife was no more.

The monastic buildings have practically disappeared, but the church was a splendid building of various dates from Norman to Decorated, the choir and Lady chapel representing the later period.

He was known to be truthful, upright and God-fearing; if he had neglected his studies it was to devote himself to manly sports and exercises; and in the pursuit of his favourite pastime, bear-hunting, he had already given proofs of the most splendid courage.

Therefore, when he died in 1458, he bequeathed Naples to his natural son Ferdinand, while Sicily and Aragon passed together to his brother John, and so on to Ferdinand the Catholic. The twenty-three years of Alfonsos reign were the most prosperous and splendid period of South Italian history.

Trade flourished; the corporations of bargemen and the like on the Rhone made money; the many towns grew rich and could afford splendid public buildings.

Pietro in Ciel d'Oro within a splendid tomb, for which Gerbert, afterwards Pope Silvester II., wrote an inscription.

In any case, the Samoans are the most perfect type of Polynesians, of a light brown colour, splendid physique, and handsome regular features, with an average height of 5 ft.

This work was one of the most splendid monuments ever raised by the genius of a single individual.

Such institutions as the Gratz and Dropsie colleges are further indications of the splendid activity of American Jews in the educational field.

As chairman, at the opening of the new session in that autumn, Mr. Henderson promised the full support of organized labour in maintaining the " splendid unity " of the nation.

He, too, failed to penetrate the jealouslyguarded portals of Lhasa; but he secured (with the assistance of a native surveyor) a splendid addition to our previous Tibetan mapping.

The golden treasure of the Mycenae graves, these critics urge, is not more splendid than would have been found at Cnossus had royal burials been spared by plunderers, or been happened upon intact by modern explorers.

Admirable woollen cloth and splendid arms were manufactured.

As soon as her fortunes began to mend she started a small home for poor girls at Ruel, which she afterwards moved to Noisy, and which was the nucleus of the splendid institution of St Cyr, which the king endowed in 1686, at her request, out of the funds of the Abbey of St Denis.

On the death of Catharine, the emperor Paul entrusted Bezborodko with the examination of the late empress's private papers, and shortly afterwards made him a prince of the Russian empire, with a correspondingly splendid apanage.

His aim, however, had been to find a via media between the old and new; his temper was essentially conservative, his imagination held captive by the splendid traditions of the medieval church, and he had no sympathy with the revolutionary attitude of the Reformers.