And behind the crimes and the frivolities stood the Parliaments, calm and undaunted, with leaders, like Molé and Talon, who needed nothing but success to make their names as grand in history as those of Pym and Hampden.

"Madam, there is nothing, so grand as the majesty of trade.

Standing on the icy top of this, the grandest of all the fire-mountains of the Sierra, we can hardly fail to look forward to its next eruption.

It has a passage that compares well, both in brilliancy and magnificence, with some of the grandest in Paris.

"This is grand for us," remarked Dab Kinzer to Ford, as he kept his eyes on the after-lantern of the "Prudhomme."

In fine I'll justifie it to be as grand to the eye every whit, I gad, as that great Scene in Harry the Eight.' p. 203

Some of you may have heard of the great Druid temple at Abury in Wilts, which, were it not all but destroyed, would be even grander than Stonehenge.

Round me, o'er me, everywhere, All the sky is grand with clouds, And athwart the evening air Wheel the swallows home in crowds.

It would fain blot out his life and much of his poetry if, without them, it could preserve the best and grandest of his writings,that ill-disguised autobiography which goes by the name of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," in which he soars to loftier flights than any English poet from Milton to his own time.

"It was mean; and as to that silly little thing being better than I am," turning up her small nose, which was quite turned up enough by Nature"I must say I don't see anything so very grand about her.

The gallant General Shields,Mr. Downs, the Senator from Louisiana,the warm-hearted Governor of Maryland,Judge Le Grand at Baltimore, and many other of my kindest friends, are Roman Catholics.

It is a paradise in reality, as its names implies; and during the summer evenings, when its many thousand gas jets blaze in globes of various colors, and the magnificent illuminations of its grand cafes produce a brilliancy of coloured light intense enough to see pins on its walks and flower-beds, the scenes become grand beyond description.

"Wal, Emerline," says she, "I s'pose ye've got so grand down ter the mills, thet, w'at 'ith yer looms an' machines an' tic-doloreux, ye won't hev nothin' ter say ter the old way uv knittin' socks.

It was an imposing structure, simple in form, yet grand from its dimensions.

De Grand Centralit was grand toofor dem days.

Schiller's mind was grand by nature, and cultivated by the assiduous study of a life-time.

Paris is unseen, but heard, on every side; only the Column of Luxor and the Arc de Triomphe rise blue and grand above the top of the forest.

The falls, next to those of Niagara, are the grandest on the continent.

I used to think a soldier's life the grandest under heaven; but curing is a finer thing than killing, after all!

"Black's grand on you," observed Myrtle.

He uses the simplest phrases without triviality, and the grandest without a suggestion of grandiloquence.