"Splendid" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... arcade practically dates from after the terrible fire in 1292. The arches escaped, and are splendid specimens of Early English, "of the Pointed style in all the purity of its first period." They were underbuilt with Early Decorated piers, while the capitals were finished at the same time as the triforium ...
— Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle - A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See • C. King Eley
... interfere with me," remarked Richard on that explosive occasion, addressing the French constables, "I'll buy your town and burn it." The last with a splendid disdain of limitations ...
— The President - A novel • Alfred Henry Lewis
... sunset, I find it to be a splendid fact, une jouissance vraie, Monsieur, to think that men can paint,—that these shades, which are spontaneous in the heavens, and fleeting, can be rivalled by us and made permanent,—that man is ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, No. 38, December, 1860 • Various
... the book in his hand, for it is "Marie Corelli" or "Hall Caine" you find him best acquainted with. Not from the Catholic newspaper, for the question is—Do we possess one? It is a strange fact that while Irish Catholics abroad have founded, and support, splendid Catholic journals in every land where they have found a home, the mother Church from which they sprang is practically defenceless. He gets poor assistance from the pulpit; for while homilies and exhortations are admirable in their way, they fall ...
— The Young Priest's Keepsake • Michael Phelan
... and as his infirm foot grated along the floor, the convict started and turned his face. It was a blank, pale face, full of splendid resolution and the nobility of suffering, but without one ray ...
— A Son of Hagar - A Romance of Our Time • Sir Hall Caine
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