Such was the glorious spectacle as I entered the train.
Such a spectacle is the height of the moral sublime; when the want of everything is fully made up by the spirit of the cause, and the soul within stands in place of discipline, organization, and resources.
This ghastly spectacle was so placed that it could be seen from the ships entering and leaving the harbour.
Their Excellencies then permitted the people to approach, and there followed a spectacle more touching than imagination could picture.
The spectacle is weird and grotesque, and suggests something impish and uncanny.
Witnessing the spectacle from the shore, I can conceive of nothing more sudden or astounding.
The spectacle is a hideous one, and the military censorship which has spread the exciting calumnies has gained no enviable place in truthful history.
At length, climbing another rock, we saw not fifty yards from us the sad spectacle of which we were in search, the fragments of the wagon and the dead horses.
At last my eyes slowly opened, and horrible indeed was thespectacle which met them.
On the public which listened to him, too, the spectacle of his condign punishment will have a healthy effect; we shall see no more ridicule of Philosophy.
Buonaparte was a firm friend to the Assembly, to the charge of a party of which, at least, these excesses must be laid; but the spectacle disgusted him.
Napoleon came up with the troops in pursuit of Moore at Benevente, on the 29th of December, and enjoyed for a moment the spectacle of an English army in full retreat.
But he could not withdraw his eyes from the rueful spectacle which the burning city presented, and from time to time repeated the same words, "This bodes great misfortune.
Buonaparte, in his bulletin, compares the horrid spectacle of this ruin to the catastrophe of the Turks at Aboukir, when "the sea was covered with turbans.
A genuine original artist is bound to make a sad spectacleof himself in an academy.
She does not make a spectacleof herself in illustrated interviews.
A spectacle that surely Americans would pay to see!
Were it otherwise, the spectacle of a toad going through the motor-car craft would be merely incomprehensible and exasperating.
Salome") at the guffaw of a provincial town confronted by the spectacle and the noise of the famous "Salome" osculation.
Also his attitude towards the spectacleof life is at bottom conventional, timid, and undecided.
He is so unassuming, so mild, so intensely and unconsciously original in the expression of his naïve emotions before the spectacle of life, that a hasty inquirer into his idiosyncrasy might be excused for entirely missing the point of him.
Walkley yawns in print before the spectacle of the modern English theatre, it really doesn't matter.
The jury went and viewed the body, which lay in an outhouse, but were so overcome with the fearful spectacle that they were permitted by the coroner to retire to partake of stimulants before they could further proceed with the inquiry.
Once more on this old earth of ours is witnessed the spectacle of a vast people stirred by one ideal impulse, prepared for all sacrifices for that ideal, prepared to face war, and the outcry of a misunderstanding or envious antagonism.
There is nothing more tragic in history than the spectacle of this man of unparalleled administrative and political genius, fettered by the past, and at length grown desperate, abandoning himself to his weird.
Such a spectacle will no doubt give pleasure to the vile multitude, which insults to-day that which it adored yesterday.
Why did he not summon all the people from the highest to the lowest to the solemn spectacle of his ascension, securing multitudinous and permanently recorded evidence such as none of us could doubt?
But Wilderspin's astonishment, apparently, was not at the rencontre: it was at the spectacle of his companion's hilarity.
What, then, could be the explanation of the spectacle that had seemed to fall upon my eyes?
Was I really to take the spectacle that had seemed to fall upon my eyes when listening to Sinfi's crwth, or rather when listening to her song, as evidence that Winifred was alive?
Footnote] And indeed, the sunset was now making a spectacle such as might have aroused a spasm of admiration in the most prosaic breast.
Then my eyes encountered a spectaclewhose horror chilled my blood, and haunts me to this day in my dreams.
As I approached the Swallow Falls Hotel, I lingered to let my fancy feast in anticipation on the lovely spectacle that awaited me.
What earthly purpose can it serve save the amusement of the maids and children of Bexley, that nine of us should present ourselves a pitiful spectacle all the way up to the cemetery in veils and hatbands?
The spectacle of a free people, separated only by six leagues of sea, was, according to him, a seductive example to the French, especially to those among them who bent unwillingly under his yoke.
It was quite a new spectacle to the Princes of Germany, all accustomed to old habits of etiquette, to see an upstart sovereign treat them as subjects, and even oblige them to consider themselves as such.
This spectacle displayed the interference of God, in thus making the former enemies of his worship pay homage to his ministers, after a long reign of atheism and persecution.
The spectacle consisted of scenery and appropriate little moving figures.
Our batteaux, which drew scarcely half a foot, were soon filled with water, and all our people in such confusion that their cries mingled with the roar of the torrent presented to us the spectacle of a dreadful wreck.
The fortitude of a brave man under torture was a spectacle as keenly appreciated by the Iroquois as were the gladiator fights and martyrdoms of old by the Romans.
Many of the savages, touched by a spectacle so new to them, abandoned their country and came to the Mission du Sault, to ask for baptism, and live there in accordance with the laws of the Gospel.
This spectacle terrified Therese, for she had good reason to fear the same treatment.
It was a fine sacrifice and we all admire the spectacle of a sacrifice, especially when some close friend is making it, if you understand me.
And now on this very first evening there was a spectacle seen from the high windows of Dare that filled her with astonishment, and caused her to send quickly for her father, who was burrowing among the old armor.
The spectacle of the ever-baffled struggle in Nature and Man they felt at times almost intolerable.
So looking and gazing ever deeper it had encountered a spectacle of admirable and awe-compelling order, yet one which for that very reason seemed appallingly remote from, if not alien to, all human businesses and concerns.
It was his first impression of Lady Harman as a good wife and he disliked the spectacle extremely.
Then as that picture of a post office pane, smashed and with a large hole knocked clean through it, fades at last upon the reader's consciousness, let another and a kindred spectacle replace it.
The spectacle caused something like confusion and even fear in the stoutest bosom.
We are dazzled by the gorgeous spectacle it perpetually exhibits, and delighted by the variety of amusing details and animated gossip sprinkled over its pages.
Let any one who is well informed enter a theatre when a nautical drama is presented; he will find the most ridiculous spectacle that the mind of man can conceive.
The most melancholy spectacle in the world is presented by the stolid citizen who yawns over his Bradshaw while the swift panoramas of Charing Cross or Euston are gliding by him.
To me the wholespectacle of the little wars is most grave, both as regards the nation and as regards the individual Britons who must suffer and fall.
When I saw some spectacle of piercing misery caused by Drink (as nearly all English misery is) I simply choked down the tendency to groan, and grimly resolved to see all I could and remember it.
As usual, high temperatures and wet fog accompanied these northerly winds, though the fog disappeared on the afternoon of January 25, and we had the unusual spectacle of bright hot sun with a north-easterly wind.
A curiousspectacle met my eyes when I landed the second time.
Presently we thought we saw a great berg bearing down upon us, its form outlined against the sky, but this startling spectacle resolved itself into a low-lying cloud in front of the rising moon.
The ship presented a painful spectacle of chaos and wreck.
We might have paused to have admired the spectacle under other conditions; but night was coming on apace, and we needed a camping-place.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spectacle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
