She stood low on the ground, and the spikes of her black-and-white sunshade menaced the eyes of Priscilla Wimbush, who towered over her -- a massive figure dressed in purple and topped with a queenly toque on which the nodding black plumes recalled the splendours of a first-class ❋ Aldous Huxley (1928)
She stood low on the ground, and the spikes of her black-and-white sunshade menaced the eyes of Priscilla Wimbush, who towered over her -- a massive figure dressed in purple and topped with a queenly toque on which the nodding black plumes recalled the splendours of a first-class Parisian funeral. ❋ Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 (1921)
The strangers who fill the quartiers on this side the Seine pass not there; between them and the Faubourg there is a gulf; the very skies seem different -- your own feelings, thoughts -- nature itself -- alter, when you have passed that Styx which divides the wanderers from the habitants; your spirits are not so much damped, as tinged, refined, ennobled by a certain inexpressible awe -- you are girt with the stateliness of Eld, and you tread the gloomy streets with the dignity of a man, who is recalling the splendours of an ancient court where he once did homage. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
a man, who is recalling the splendours of an ancient court where he once did homage. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
While with his Italian accent and violent gestures the Corsican enumerates the "splendours" of the affair, Monpavon, haughty, and with an air calculated to command confidence, nods his head approvingly with conviction, and from time to time, when he judges the moment propitious, throws into the conversation the name of the Duc de Mora, which never fails in its effect on the Nabob. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)
And I was nineteen, and sun-warm Hawaiian in spite of my three-quarters haole blood, and I knew nothing save my girlhood splendours at Kilohana and my Honolulu education at the Royal Chief School, and my grey husband at Nahala with his grey preachments and practices of sobriety and thrift, and those two childless uncles of mine, the one with far, cold vision, the other the broken-hearted, for-ever-dreaming lover of a dead princess. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Stripes were in short supply for much of the admirable Lost Land of the Tiger, which, over three nights on BBC1, gave armchair wildlife fans – conditioned by the extravagant splendours of the Attenborough years – a lesson in sitting up a tree waiting for something to happen. ❋ Phil Hogan (2010)
What was subconscious became conscious, what, back in the past, was a mere adumbration gloried out in Aurora splendours. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Howard Hughes was doing cruder, coarser, crasser things with Jane Russell's atomic décolletage over at RKO in the same period, but Russell had Bob Mitchum's face while Rita Hayworth was a Max Factor girl voted "Best Lips of 1945" and had charms, talents and splendours that far outweighed the contents of Russell's cantilevered brassiere. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Of course in addition to these splendours, Rome has other faces -- older faces -- which still peer out at us today either in full or in part. ❋ Unknown (2009)
One of the many splendours of modern technology is that it is able to transmit round-robin witticisms to those who might otherwise find themselves short of an aperçu at the most opportune of moments. ❋ Marina Hyde In Johannesburg (2010)
Hall is unsparing about the drawbacks, but gruffly passionate about its splendours, of which there are many, and he is, as ever, smart and funny with it. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Here we find anchorage in these thwarting currents of being; here we balance ourselves after the splendours and miseries of the streets. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The garden looked like fairy-land; the queen enjoyed all these splendours, which were hers, and her grace and kindness and delicate thoughtfulness added to them. ❋ Elena Maria Vidal (2009)
But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit-immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This is to forget their fundamental condition as men of prayer, who took up arms only to defend peace and thus to allow mankind to hear the splendours of the Word of God. ❋ Lu (2009)
Doesn't it just reek of privilege and pageantry, in the hierarchy of tastes, the authority of assumed superiority, and in the superficiality of spectacle, the skin-deep splendours of the picturesque or the sublime? ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)
Awake from [the dust], shake yourself free and put on your [garment] of [Splendour]. ❋ Olivermicky (2017)
[Are you] going to see [vampire weekend] at [splendour in the grass] ❋ Floral08 (2008)
[ugh] shes [walking] around the [festival] like a splendour slut ❋ Nevillenewisababe (2019)
