It was attached to a pair of cream-coloured horses, splendidly caparisoned.
In seven or eight miles we got into much better country, lightly timbered with mulga and splendidly grassed.
The day after leaving York we passed Mr. Samuel Burgess's establishment, called Tipperary, where we were splendidly entertained at a dinner, with his brothers and family.
These mountains appear to be composed of a kind of conglomerate granite; very little timber existed upon them, but they were splendidly supplied with high, strong, coarse spinifex.
We found that it meandered through a piece of open plain, splendidly grassed, and delightful to gaze upon.
A pretty valley running north-west, with a creek in it, was our next road; our track wound about through the most splendidly grassed valleys, mostly having a trend westerly.
I got a couple of horses for Nicholls and myself from Mr. Coulthard, Jimmy being stuck up on the top of the old riding cow camel, who could travel splendidly on a road.
The country as we proceeded we found splendidly open, beautifully grassed, and it rose occasionally into some low ridges.
Splendidly he sat his horse, as his pursuers thundered toward him, and with taunting shouts called to him that he was caught at last.
It was on Mount Helicon among the Muses, Flavianus, when the people of Thespiæ were celebrating their Festival to the God of Love, which they celebrate very magnificently and splendidly every five years to that God, as also to the Muses.
As long as they were splendidly paid they would be for Caesar, and this sort of fidelity could easily be corrupted in a single night.
But how came you to dream more splendidly than others?
Whatever may be the number of those in whom this faculty of dreaming splendidly can be supposed to lurk, there are not perhaps very many in whom it is developed.
Certainly it would be no light matter to surrender Sluys, the fruit of Maurice's skill and energy, the splendidly earned equivalent for the loss of Ostend.
A great fleet, to be sure, had recently arrived, splendidly laden, from the West Indies, as already stated.
If Peary could make a record trip on the Arctic ice with dogs, one ought, surely, with equally good tackle, to be able to beat Peary's record on the splendidly even surface of the Barrier.
We found we had ample room in the tent, and our arrangements worked splendidly the whole time.
This was an entirely scientific expedition, splendidly equipped and conducted.
But everything, great and small, was thoroughly thought out, and the plan was splendidly executed.
His expeditions were splendidly equipped, and the scientific results were extraordinarily rich.
Antarctic exploration now shoots rapidly ahead, and the twentieth century opens with the splendidly equipped British and German expeditions in the Discovery and the Gauss, both national undertakings.
Hazen, moved to the front on the left of the railroad, and taken up a position at right angles with the railroad, where they fought splendidly in all the actions that took place on the left of the road.
The regiments all behaved splendidly again, and the 58th Indiana won immortal honors.
Each morning there was a new offering of bric-à-brac from the grandfather to Cosette, and all sorts of ornaments were spread out splendidly around her.
He adored Cosette, he possessed Cosette; Cosette wassplendidly pure, and that was sufficient for him.
We often heard from our old comrade; he got alongsplendidly and was soon promoted to the rank of quartermaster.
It consisted of ham and beans, bread and tea; it was splendidly cooked and well served by half-breeds.
I keep measuring them by Father and his work, and what Richard is doing so splendidly up there in Canada, and I wish there was something I could do to make them as proud of me as I am of them.
It is a pity that "Sister Wynne" died before she knew how splendidly he turned out.
The wood flamed up splendidly under the large brewing copper, and it sighed so deeply!
He was the "Tin King," enormously wealthy, splendidly generous and fortune's favorite.
It was the world force of love, splendidly manifest in gentleness, he had felt in her first.
It had been such a glorious, wholesome, splendidly worth while winter.
He fanned himself with a large straw hat, without any ribbon, and talkedsplendidly to us, as we three walked together under the trees.
I thought her splendidly handsome, and I liked the gleam in her dark grey eyes, which promised fun.
Yes, I can quite believe that it must be very stimulating to be so really splendidly busy.
There was much excitement to know whether the park belonging to the Schloss, which had been so splendidly cleaned up and trimmed, was to be fenced off from the public by a wall or hedge.
And now what can be said of the wedding breakfast, laid out in Mr. Armstrong's splendidlyfurnished dining-room?
Mr. Armstrong, as he entered his splendidly furnished house at Kilburn, felt thankful for the absence of his daughter.
I went to the Théâtre Français and heard a play in verse of Ponsard, thin stuffsplendidly represented.
It was splendidly carried out, and great fun; and they gave all of us foreigners honorary degrees.
