While she was dreaming and believing herself happy in the splendors of a former life, real and fearful disasters had befallen her cause.
I am willing to inundate you with glories and splendors and lightnings.
In those orbs of phosphoric lightning the rays of suns extinguished, the splendors of vanished worlds, the glories of Olympus eclipsed--all seemed to have concentrated their reflections.
The strong grasp which Rome had laid upon the splendors of all the ancient Pagan Civilizations was to be relaxed.
She is killed, not as a hero perishes on a battle-field; but she dies, as Madame de Maintenon said that she died, amid the imposing splendors of Versailles.
Light the path to Stygian horrors With the splendors of thy smile I can scorn the Senate's triumphs, Triumphing in love like thine.
Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.
The silky mountains were clothed in soft, rich splendors of melting color, and some of the cliffs were veiled in slanting mists.
As far as the eye can reach, it finds nothing to rest upon but a boundless plain of clouds tumbled into all manner of fantastic shapes-a billowy ocean of wool aflame with the gold and purple and crimson splendors of the setting sun!
They arrived, and John was awed into silence by the magnificence and splendors of his surroundings until they went to the bath-room to wash off the dust of travel.
Low quivering vapors steaming dim The level splendors break Where languid lilies deck the rim Of some land-circled lake.
It had taken only a few minutes, apparently, to change him from an English nobleman into a penniless little impostor, with no right to any of the splendors he had been enjoying.
It must also be owned that Mr. Hobbs had been rather overwhelmed by the splendors Fauntleroy felt it his duty to show him.
That world is all too grand; Among those splendors and those majesties I would not dare to stand; For me a lowlier heaven would well suffice!
Tears wash away the atoms in the eye That smarted for a day; Rain-clouds that spoiled the splendors of the sky The fields with flowers array.
Light the path to Stygian horrors With the splendors of thy smile.
A young girl stood in the deep recess of a large window, with the rich, blue-wrought damask curtains wrapped closely about her slight, fragile form, gazing intently on the splendors of the midnight heaven.
By prophet bards foretold, When with the ever circling years Comes round the age of gold; When Peace shall over all the earth Its ancient splendors fling, And the whole world give back the song Which now the angels sing.
The splendors of the court were maintained at the expense of the people.
What had time and place to do with one who trembled always with the awful consciousness of an immortal nature, and about whom fell alternately the shadows of hell and the splendors of heaven?
The reader will be interested in learning the routine of a day as passed by this most sumptuous of earthly kings amidst the splendors of Versailles.
The splendors of this gala-day were never forgotten by those who witnessed them.
The chief was to assemble his warriors, to the number of about ten thousand, upon an extensive plain, just outside the city, ostensibly to gratify De Soto with the splendors of a peaceable parade.
In glowing colors he depicted thesplendors of the celestial Eden, to which he would be admitted the moment after his execution if he would accept the Christian faith.
She yearned for the vanished splendors of her former life; the solitude of a country life wearied, and the rudeness with which she was surrounded, shocked her.
Surrounded with splendors like these, the plain title of "Mr." Dexter would have been infinitely too mean and common.
A magnificent fete was given in honor of this marriage, at which all the splendors of the ancient royalty were revived.
The splendors and the etiquette of royalty were now rapidly introduced; and the same fickle populace who had so recently trampled princes and thrones into blood and ruin, were now captivated with re-introduction of these discarded splendors.
It was his fortune to live not only in a dramatic age, but in a transition age, when feudalism was passing away, but while its shows and splendors could still be seriously comprehended.
The virgin queen was the last ruler who seriously regarded the pomps and splendors of feudalism.
The fêtes exceeded everything which romance had dreamed, in which the fairy splendors that wearied the eye were blended with the noblest pleasures of the intellect.
What an array of great men and brilliant women to reflect the splendors of an absolute throne!
To say the least, it was humiliating amid all the splendorsto which she was raised; for if she were a lawful wife, she was not a queen.
Before you enter the enchanted ground, where twenty thousand additional lamps are burned every night as usual, most of us have passed through the black and dreary passage and wickets which hide the splendors of Vauxhall from uninitiated men.
In earlier times a situation such as this would have confused me dreadfully, perhaps have turned my head; but now, in the midst of all the splendors that surrounded me, I felt extremely cool.
Few of them can carry their royal splendors far enough to ride in carriages, however; they sport the economical Kanaka horse or "hoof it" with the plebeians.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "splendors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
