The third of the rooms devoted to Frederick and his reign is called the Marble Chamber, and is a superb icy place; floor and walls all marble.
I dare say they do not sound half as superb as they were; but I must tell you of a few more.
When the almond trees are in bloom, the eucalyptus belts are perhaps most superb of all, with their dark spears and plumes waving above and around the white and rosy acres.
They commandsuperb off-looks across and up and down the majestic river, which is here far more a bay than a river.
But in the cathedral there are some superb bronzes and brasses, and a twisted iron railing around the pulpit, which is so marvellous in its knottings and twistings that a legend has arisen that the devil made it.
One ought to be here at least two weeks to really study the superb collections of one sort and another.
One of the saloons is hung with superb tapestry, all with a red ground; and the tables and mirrors and chairs are all gilded and carved in the last degree of fantastic decoration.
In every one of the deep window-seats stood a cone of bright flowers, its base made by large white datura blossoms, their creamy whorls all turned outward, making a superb decoration.
Here may often be seen a beautiful young Mexican woman, flitting about among the plants, or sporting with a superb Saint Bernard dog.
You remember Tenniel's superbcartoon of the noble savage manacled with the chains of slavery taking refuge on a British ship with clasped hands uplifted to the commander?
Rarely, indeed, does a great church have so dominating and superb a site, nor is it often that so prominent a point is crowned by such a noble structure.
Indeed, the lad made a noble figure with his superb height and bearing, and he wore sword and spurs as though born to them.
Seating ourselves upon one of the tombs, we turned in the direction of the Golden Horn, and while resting our tired bodies feasted our eyes upon the superb panorama which lay spread out before us.
The play that followed possessed no merit, except in the bewildering beauty of the girlish actresses, and their superb adornments of natural flowers artistically arranged in coronets and wreaths, with costly pearls and diamonds.
Chamilly might perhaps have considered himself sufficiently rewarded in being the only man who ever saw the superb king dancing with bare legs in a wig hastily put on crosswise.
The "superb specimen of a chelonian" was no longer there!
This led them to conclude that the superb vegetation found a heat in this soil, damp in its upper layer, but warmed in the interior by volcanic fires, which could not belong to a temperate climate.
Several times also they anchored, and Gideon Spilett took photographs of the superb scenery.
It was the first time that the settlers had set foot on the right bank of the Mercy, and ventured into the midst of those gigantic and superb coniferae now sprinkled over with snow.
Large sums were voted, offerings flowed in, a superb hospital was founded, and Brunelleschi was appointed architect.
There was the superb fire of coal and oak blocks, throwing a glow on the massive family plate and fine, spotless damask: such a silver urn and teapot were not often seen.
The distinction of the region is its superb oak-trees.
He was, indeed, a superb hunter, and would have been a devastating one, if his bump of destructiveness had not been offset by a bump of moderation.
He was mounted 'a la guisa,' or with long stirrups, on a superb chestnut horse, with trappings of azure silk which reached to the ground.
The girl, indeed, had been asking for ancient coins, and they were shown twosuperb gold staters with the heads of Alexander and Philip.
The king now came forth in royal state, mounted on a superb chestnut horse, and attended by many grandees of Castile.
The ball which followed these private events was also a part of Mrs. Mavick's superb tactics.
It must have seemed so to Greece when the Acropolis was to the outlying world what the imperial calla is to the marsh in which it lifts its superb flower.
A superb dinner was given to the naval heroes, at which all the great eaters and drinkers of the city were present.
Our imaginations were kindled by reading that the "most superb line of stages on the continent" ran from New Glasgow to the Gut of Canso.
There were many examples of superb binding, especially of exquisite tooling on hog-skin covers--the appreciation of which has lately greatly revived.
It is a superb figure, clad in a high tight bodice and long skirts simply draped so as to show every motion of the athletic limbs.
But nothing it could do made any difference to the superb rider; he just sat as if he were part of the horse, as if he were indeed its brain, forcing it to obey his will.
No attention was paid to their superb diction nor to the refinement of their manner.
In one short hour Edward Henry's right hand (peeping out from the superb fur coat which he had had the wit to buy) had made the acquaintance of scores upon scores of the most celebrated right hands in Britain.
He bought a "Pianisto," and incidentally he bought a superbgrand piano, and exiled the old cottage piano to the nursery.
Thank you," said Edward Henry quietly, with a superb and successful effort to keep as much colour in his face as if the policeman had not dealt him a dizzying blow.
A nonchalant policeman on a superb horse occupied the middle of the road.
You see that these are the materials of a superb edifice, and the hands which have prepared them are perfectly capable of putting them together, and of filling up the work, of which these are only the outlines.
The superb lines of her figure were displayed by her attitude.
A perfectly nude male figure was disclosed, exquisitely modeled, and of superb proportions.
It is obvious, though, that this mastery of style, this superb union of form and content, was not attained miraculously and from the start.
During the night it had been quite endurable andsuperb moonlight.
Now he stood before a maiden in the full bloom of her charms, whose superb symmetry of figure surprised and stirred him to the depths of his nature.
Behind them, on spirited stallions, rode the wedding marshals, members of royal families, in superb costumes with bouquets of flowers on their shoulders.
In former days such things presented a more superb spectacle even here.
But how thissuperb composition was sung six years ago at Catnbray, under the direction of Courtois himself!
Gifts from the widow of the Turkish lord high admiral," the priest whispered, pointing to the superb textures, and Barbara nodded.
Thence he would try to take her to the minister, who had by no means forgotten her superb singing.
If she deprived herself of this superb ornament, the despairing old mother would be consoled, and the lovely child saved from hunger and disgrace.
As a matter of course, Brussels, the favourite residence of the Dubois couple, was most honoured in the narrative, and Barbara could never hear enough of this superb city.
Even the most superbshow seemed to her too trivial for this dead man.
How superb a creature he had found in this German city, from which, since its change of religion, he had withdrawn his former favour!
How the silk rustled, and one superb piece of fur vied with the other in costliness, the white with the red rose in beauty!
We live two leagues and a half from here, at Allevard, where my husband bought a superb estate when he retired from the wine trade.
Unexcelled in tearful roles, superb in tragedy, and absolutely natural in comedy," said Dubourg, while Menard listened with the air of one listening to a language he does not understand.
So I began to do nothing--a superb profession, within everybody's reach; and a delightful one when it is supported by investments in the funds.
They took everything, even my superb hat, with its steel buckle worth sixty francs.
I sent him a superb yellow tunic, and trousers of the same stuff; for his diadem he has a turban of the same color, that I use in Mahomet.
They were quartered in a superb suite on the first floor.
Almost in the middle of this plain, on a height superior to the immediate elevations which bounded it, rose a mountain of gradual ascent, covered with sycamores, and crowned by a superb Saracenic castle.
Derry and Toms stepped down off the bank with complete assurance and superb dignity.
Lady Tybar, who is a superb horsewoman, descending a precipice on her beautiful half-bred Derry and Toms, a winner at several shows.
Colonel Cody flew to his death in one waterplane, and Mr. Hawker made a superb failure to fly around Great Britain in another waterplane.
This superb new planet was plunged into space to such a depth that, notwithstanding its noble proportions, it seemed merely a tiny star, being only on rare occasions within reach of the unaided eye.
In England Mr. Common was the first to take most excellent photographs of the nebula, and superb photographs of the same object have also been obtained by Dr.
He did not realise that he had made the superb discovery of another mighty planet revolving outside Saturn; he thought that it could only be a comet.
The cluster will in time come to be spread out around the whole of this mighty track, and no longer will a superb display have to be recorded every thirty-three years.
In the Natural History Museum at South Kensington we may examine a superb collection of meteorites.
Superb meridian instruments adorn our great observatories, and are nightly devoted to those measurements upon which the great truths of astronomy are mainly based.
A less superb artist would have made it stick out in every line, so that the device would be a hindrance to the story-telling.
We regard her as indifferently as we do that," the churchwarden replied, striking down a branch with the end of his stick, with the superb air of a Tarquin.
She has superb lines," said the painter, without interrupting his drawing.
Guido Reni, whose superb paintings are among the gems of the Vatican, in the height of his fame would not touch pencil or brush except in full dress.
A superb banquet was preparing in the palace of the Falieri family at Venice.
Or, strictly speaking, it was one entire circus that I saw, and the unique speciality of another, the dying glory of a circus on its last legs, the triumphal fall of a circus superb in adversity.
