He had been having such a splendid time with the girls that he could not help resenting the interruption to his pleasure caused by the entrance of these two Americans.
We play a splendid game which maybe you will think is silly, but you don't know how much fun it is.
Mr. Kinsella rose from his seat and clasping the marquis by the hand, exclaimed: "Jean, how splendid to meet you on this my first night in Paris after all these years!
His Peter Pan was splendid the afternoon we spent in Kensington Gardens, and he thought my Wendy was so perfect he tried to make me give him a "thimble" right there before all the nurse maids.
It is a splendid apple year," remarked Mrs. Brown, her eyes wandering over the bountifully laden trees.
I think you are splendid to make such a happy home for your father and I know you are a wonderful housekeeper.
Isn't it splendid to be able to loosen up and undress for dinner?
A ray of sunshine caused this splendid city to glisten with a thousand varied colors.
At the sight of this gilded city, of this splendid capital, uniting Europe and Asia, of this magnificent emporium of the luxury and arts of the two fairest divisions of the globe, we stood still, in proud contemplation.
Every year he made a splendid sacrifice, from the tenth of all the fruits of the property; to which solemnity not only all the Skilluntines, but also all the neighboring villages, were invited.
The Russians supposed that he had gone to take a last look at this splendid mansion, when all at once it was wrapped from their sight by clouds of smoke.
And Xenophon himself, far from obtaining fulfilment of those splendid promises which Seuthês had made to him personally, seems not even to have received his pay as one of the generals.
Why, Mother says you are going to make a splendid Pioneer.
Confederates as his splendid figure stood, one glorious moment, on the top.
Sigel's Germans, supported by the splendid Pennsylvanians under Reynolds, advanced from the Henry Hill to hold Jackson till Pope could come up and finish him.
But Lookout Mountain was a splendid observation post, twenty-two hundred feet high and crested with columns of rock.
No Arab ever loved his horse better than Grant loved his splendid charger Cincinnati, the worthy counterpart of Traveler, Lee's magnificent gray.
He had four splendid new men-of-war that formed a homogeneous squadron, four other sizable warships, and nine new gunboats.
Arriving on the field Sheridan discovered those two splendid leaders, Custer and Getty, holding off the victorious Confederates from what otherwise seemed an easy prey.
The whole history of the two centuries of evolution toward a national system of education is a splendid illustration of this essentially English characteristic.
What splendid ideals of manhood and womanhood did they hold up for his admiration and imitation!
My friend Leithcourt is awfully fortunate in getting such a splendid old place as this.
She raised her clasped hands to me in silence, yet with tears welling in her splendid eyes.
As Amy shrunk back with terror, Elizabeth seized on her arm, and dragged the terrified countess to where Leicester stood--the centre of a splendid group of lords and ladies.
But on the night of that disastrous day, a young stranger in splendid armour came secretly to Wallace.
Trembling with the violence of sudden emotion, she placed upon the drooping head of the victor the splendid chaplet which was the destined reward of the day.
But when these visits became rarer and more rare, the brief letters of excuse did not keep out discontent and suspicion from the splendid apartments which love had once fitted up for beauty.
It was a little more tiring for them to have to climb so high, but then what a splendid view they had into each other's attics!
Do you imagine," demanded the Young Stork, "that a nation like ours is going to deprive itself of the splendid luxury of a fleet simply because chance has decreed that the ocean should not come as far as its frontiers?
A splendid chance for boys and girls to earn a little pocket money.
They'd make such splendid backwoodsmen," says one.
Mrs Merryboy, helping each of our waifs to a splendid fried fish.
And the daughters would make such splendid wives for backwoodsmen," says another.
The boy was here yesterday and he refused--absolutely declined a splendid offer.
But when his sister lost her situation in the firm that paid her such splendid wages, and fell ill, and went into hospital in consequence, he lost heart, and had a relapse of wickedness.
The splendid sun, the purple, and the crown, These I have known, and I am losing them.
O but to-night Even grandeur palls, the splendid goal: to-night I am a woman and am with my child.
Her splendid trouble asketh but the sea For sepulchre: her spirit limitless A multitudinous and roaring grave.
Well, I've had a splendid visit, but I'm glad to see you dear folks again.
Her humiliation was the consequence of her own ideals only, for Avonlea folks thought it quite splendid that she should have won the prize.
It was a splendid sermon and I could have listened to it forever, and it made me feel utterly wretched.
When she fell she grabbed hold of the shelf with all the milk pails and stewpans on it, and it gave way and went down with her and made a splendid crash.
I feel that I shall love Redmond and have a splendid four years there.
Redmond was splendid and Bolingbroke delightful--but Green Gables is HOME.
I don't know, but Jo has given me a splendid rule.
They spent a splendid half hour climbing on the roof and diving off into the straw with whoops and yells.
A splendid mantle of fog hung over the street, shutting out the otherwise all too commercial aspect of that honored by-way.
The opera-house itself was not appreciably damaged, although I am told that pieces of steak and chops and canned pease have since been found clinging to the third-story windows of its splendid facade.
Sir Samuel Baker, who died at the end of the year 1893, aged seventy-three, will always be remembered for the splendid work he did in the Soudan during the four years he ruled there, and for his explorations in Africa.
Though she has had much ill health herself, she has been able to accomplish a splendid life's work, and to advance the study of nursing in all parts of the globe.
Sir Colin was proud of the splendidtroops he commanded, and at the battle of the Alma they covered themselves with glory.
Sour he was not, but he keptsplendid discipline among his troops.
So, as Lord Shaftesbury had been kind to the costers and taken such interest in their pursuits, they invited him to a special meeting, at which they presented him with a splendid donkey.
It afforded no room for the splendidachievements of Waterloo and the Crimea.
Queen:-- "Accept for yourself and all your command my warmest congratulations on the splendid news.
But good breeds and good keeping make splendid animals, and will constantly improve them.
As the afternoon waned the breeze freshened; but Murgatroyd had by this time got preventer backstays rigged, fore and aft, with the avowed determination of carrying on and making the very utmost of so splendid a breeze.
Then a splendid pie was produced; the neck was knocked off a bottle; the lads drew out their clasp knives, and set to work.
The butterflies were out, the birds were having a splendid morning concert, and the flowers were opening their petals and taking their morning breakfast from the sunshine.
From the death of Richard till the splendid victories of Edward III.
Mrs. Beacham was delighting the assembly by a splendiddisplay of her musical talents; the major and Mr. Seymour were engaged in a game of chess.
I perceive that it is a copy from the splendid print of Didot in the Paris edition of Virgil.
Time has left them to wither, and to be scattered on the wings of the wind, he collects their remains, and piously deposits them in a splendid mausoleum, in order to preserve them to the latest posterity!
Then the suspensions of Chief Bender and Rube Oldring blazoned the fact that Manager Mack's splendid system of handling a Base Ball team by moral suasion had fallen down in the face of overconfidence and too much prosperity.
His friends congratulated him upon thissplendid achievement.
They stood looking at the splendid monument when Adams remarked: "This is the place, sir, where Warren fell.
He used to tell of a football game he once witnessed: "Princeton had a splendid player in Poe--you will remember little Poe?
The will of Stephen Girard provided that no clergyman should ever be allowed to enter the splendid Girard College at Philadelphia.
With splendid calmness she took the letter from the table and replaced it in her pocket.
Then Evelyn swept the tears from her eyes with a splendid confidence.
For that part of the undertaking he is thoroughly equipped by the Booth Steamship Company, Limited, whose powerful and splendid modern vessels have the reputation of being the most comfortable of all that cross the Bay of Biscay.
Naval officers and cadets and seamen are met everywhere in the Calle Real and other streets, and splendid views of the harbour and dockyard are easily obtainable.
In Galicia the dawn and twilight are briefer and more splendid than in England.
The Alps allure the climber, but the day is not remote when the sierras of Galicia will irresistibly call those travellers who crave for splendid panoramas and are fascinated by the chance of sport.
The reproduction would form a noble decoration for one of the light and splendid galleries of the extension at South Kensington.
This river has been well called the Glory of Galicia, and the tourist to the country would be fully recompensed for his visit even if he did nothing more than make the railway journey along the Miño's splendid and impressive banks.
