Which preposition to use with splendor

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Presently, it was far behind, and all about me shone the splendor of the countless stars.

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CHAPTER XXIII THE GOVERNOR SHOWS HIS GRATITUDE I ate my supper in solitary splendor in the old dining-room, with my grandfather's portrait looking down upon me, and Long found me an hour later sitting in the midst of a wreath of smoke just within the hallway out of the river mist.

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Alexandria, could it have been transported in its former splendor to our modern world, would be a great capital in these times.

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God will note deeds and sighs, Throned in far splendor on the heavenly hill, Though mad sounds from this wretched planet rise Moans wild enough to fill Heaven's air, and drown its harps in doleful cries.

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He was an embodiment of that late time of Venetian culture when its magnificence, its artistic and intellectual development had touched their height, and the hint of decadence shadowed its splendor with a pathos unguessed except by the thoughtful few.

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While your affairs are in a favorable and ours in a dubious state, you would derive honor and splendor from granting peace; while to us, who solicit it, it would be considered as necessary rather than honorable.

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We found, it is true, no such splendor as in Damascus, but more solid and durable architecture, and a more chastened elegance of taste.

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Even the greatest of captains, in his Italian campaigns, flashing fame in lightning splendor over the world, even Bonaparte met and crushed in battle but three or four (I think)

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Snow-White consented, and went home with the prince; and everything was prepared with great pomp and splendor for their wedding.

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She also gave him an entertainment of more than usual splendor at the Trianon, at which all the ladies present, and the invitations were very numerous, were required to be dressed in white, while all the walks and shrubberies of the garden were illuminated, so that the whole scene presented a spectacle which he described in one of his letters as "a complete fairy-land; a sight worthy of the Elysian Fields themselves."

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The landscape was pervaded with a deeper repose, the glowing clouds with a diviner splendor than that which filled the eye.

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Agnes gave a shivering sigh, and, looking up into the golden sky that was pouring such floods of splendor through the orange-trees and jasmines, thought, How could it be that the world could possibly be going on so sweet and fair over such an abyss?

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But there was a splendor about the heavens above, and their counterpart in the depths below, which I have scarcely ever seen equalled.

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The salt tang of the sea was in his nostrils; greetings, many-keyed, hoarse-whistled by plying craft, were in his ears; creamy-foamed wakes of turbulent keels, swift-sent or laboring, boiled their swirling splendor against the black water.

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But how incomparably greater would have been the splendor by lamp-light!

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The sweetness of the heavenly country had soothed away his care, and taken the cloud from his face; but he was as yet unaccustomed to smile,though when he remembered and looked round him and saw that all was well, his countenance lightened like the morning sky, and his eyes woke up in splendor like the sun rising.

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Thus the morning drew on, and the lovely autumn day sailed past with all its life and splendor toward the west.

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How she bends, but never breaks, When his good she undertakes.... How she uses whom she chooses And with every purpose fuses him, By every art induces him To try his splendor out Nature knows what she's about.

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The last-named trees are in their splendor during a period of about three weeks after the middle of September, varying with the character of the season.

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The sun sinks down in golden splendor behind the ocean's rim, leaving a track of molten gold that tips as with a halo the edges of the dancing waves.

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Faber would call her faith a mighty, perhaps a lovely illusion: her life was an active waiting for the revelation of its object in splendor before the universe.

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No aurora threw its splendor across the dome, and only a few rare stars peeped between the light cirrus clouds.

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After a sunset in which sky and earth seemed to be wedded in a splendor without limit and without division, there came a night of such beauty as I had never seen on the Riviera.

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Then the moon shone in the clear sky with all regal splendor until 3.30 in the morning, when old Sol again put in his claims for admission.

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" In a few nights, however, all this was changed; for the moon, which had been invisible, began to "roll in full splendor above the towers, pouring a flood of tempered light into every court and hall.

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