47 collocations for splendid

Glory among the grass and on the roofs, In eyes of lizards and on wings of swans, Artist who making splendid the great things Forgets not to make exquisite the small! 'Tis thou that, cutting out a silhouette, To all thou beamest on dost fasten this dark twin, Doubling the number of delightful shapes, Appointing to each thing its shadow, More charming often than itself.

His legs were waving in the sun, He seemed to think it splendid fun, I heard him shout.

I am not a purist; an error of diction is very pardonable if it does not err on the side of the commonplace; the commonplace, the natural, is constitutionally abhorrent to me; and I have never been able to read with any very thorough sense of pleasure even the opening lines of "Rolla," that splendid lyrical outburst.

Besides the ship's doctor (whose uniform was a sufficient passport for all), there were in our party a Pole and a Frenchmanboth inspectors of revenue for the Turkish government, and splendid fellowsa Belgian, and the writer.

The jabirua splendid bird on the wingalso stretches his neck out in front, but there appears to be a slight downward curve at the base of the neck, which may be due merely to the craw.

There were fine bats by the best makers for cricket, rods for trout fishing, splendid modified choke-bores, saddles, jockey caps, and so on.

Never have I seen so splendid a bridegroom.

A moment later Reinaldo and Prudencia appeared, the former as splendid a caballero as ever, although wearing the chastened air of matrimony, the latter pre-maternally consequential.

Remember, too, that War must always have its demoralising features, however splendid the cause for which you are fighting.

Bedient had seen the man in the field, a young West Point product, with a queer, rabbit face, lots of men friends, the love of his company, and a remarkable kind of physical couragea splendid young chap, black from the heats, who was being talked about for his grisly humor under fire.

No wonder he is so splendid a character now, having had to be so strong and fearless all his life.

It seemed as if they had lost their senses in the excitement of so unusual and splendid a cortége in their hitherto desolate domain.

That splendid young couple, about whom she had built up such a gorgeous romance, had been parted, and this handsome fellow with the kind smile and heroic shoulders was unhappy, far unhappier than Sara Wilkins had ever been, strange as that might seemhe who had looked so fortunate!

" The old lady came forward as her son went outa splendid old creature in her lace and jewelsactive still and upright in spite of her years.

Stimulated by so important and so splendid a decision of yours in my favour, I came into the senate on the first of January, with the feeling that I was bound to show my recollection of the character which you had imposed upon me, and which I had to sustain.

How came it to pass that they did not kill and eat them, to please their devouring appetites, and occasion to splendid an entertainment among them?"

IOLE Another splendid example of the author's versatility is this farcical, humorous satire on the art nouveau of to-day, Mr. Chambers, with all his knowledge of the artistic jargon, has in this little novel created a pious fraud of a father, who brings up his eight lovely daughters in the Adirondacks, where they wear pink pajamas and eat nuts and fruit, and listen to him while he lectures them and everybody else on art.

Now this room is filled, and genially filled, with men who have had enormous experience, vast and wide experience, and, not merely passive experience, but that splendid active experience which is the real training and education of men in responsibility.

"What splendid eyes!"

The bar part was crowded with every type of the mining camp, two-thirds of them splendid faces and figures, just glorious men; the other third, dwindling gradually to a rather brutal typed Mexican; and even though their dress was the rough miner's, with great boots, all were freshly shaven and smart, and all had a "gun" in their belt, although it is against the law to wear one concealed.

May 20.] splendid, his mien fearless, his language calm, firm, and dignified.

Looking upon so splendid a figure, it was no wonder that the mountain desert had forgiven the crimes of Lord Nick because of the careless insolence with which he treated the law.

The man who could conceive and write the character of Elspeth of the Craigburnfoot, as Scott has conceived and written it, had not only splendid romantic, but splendid tragic gifts.

In the walls of the halls and chambers, there are numerous figures of dragons, soldiers, birds and beasts of various kinds, and representations of battles, all finely carved and splendidly gilded, and the roof is so richly ornamented, that nothing is to be seen but splendid gold and imagery.

"And I think she loves to hear me tell of that wonderful countrythe white nights of St. Petersburgthe splendid steppesthe grandeur of our Venice of the north.

47 collocations for  splendid