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  • Eleven winding steps lead to the second floor, which is full of the smells of faded grandeur: an old sewing room, a former maid's room.†   (source)
  • Yet here was a scattered grove of trees, none of them of any particular grandeur.†   (source)
  • There was a grandeur about the day, about the colossal, barely stirring beeches and oaks, and the light that dropped like jewels through the fresh foliage to make pools among last year's dead leaves.†   (source)
  • The grandeur and desolation of the space baffled me —the high, rare, loft of it, layered with gradations of smoke, and billowing with a tangled, tent-like effect where the ceiling (or the sky) ought to be.†   (source)
  • He doubted if even Uru'baen could match the wealth and grandeur displayed here.†   (source)
  • Together we are going to make a place for justice and peace, prosperity and grandeur.†   (source)
  • Together he and his architects had conjured a dream city whose grandeur and beauty exceeded anything each singly could have imagined.†   (source)
  • This is not an age of tragic grandeur, Prufrock suggests, but an age of hapless ditherers.†   (source)
  • I believe there is a grandeur in the jet stream.†   (source)
  • Shades of its former grandeur were still evident in the curving staircase, the chipped marble entryway floor, and the wide single-paned skylight overhead.†   (source)
  • And he said, No straw for the gentry, nothing but goose feathers for them, no wonder Nancy liked to spend so much time in this bed; and for a moment he seemed overawed, not by what he'd done, but by the grandeur of the bed he was in.†   (source)
  • I preferred watching ball games from a distance, where it was easier to suffer illusions about the poetry and grandeur of competition, so I gave up the sports beat and became a news reporter at the Oakland Tribune.†   (source)
  • The men of C.E.T. were likened to archeologists of ideas, inspired by God in the grandeur of rediscovery.†   (source)
  • Ishmael knew his father had come to logging with a romantic's sense of grandeur, viewing it at first as grandly heroic, in keeping with the spirit of manifest destiny.†   (source)
  • They relieved the tiresomeness of poverty, gave grandeur to the dead rooms.†   (source)
  • How maddening it was to have been born in a cotton field with aspirations of grandeur.†   (source)
  • As I contemplated all this grandeur, an enormous motorcar rumbled through the western gate and the men sitting in the shade immediately arose.†   (source)
  • Each one tried to outdo the other, and they worked so hard and diligently at it that before long their cities rivaled even Wisdom in size and grandeur.†   (source)
  • Based on the grandeur of their houses, she pegged them as the kind of people who wanted everything picture perfect when they stood on their back decks drinking coffee in the mornings.†   (source)
  • His august head of a tormented emperor had acquired a strange air of grandeur.†   (source)
  • It was simply indescribable in its terrible grandeur.†   (source)
  • Hundreds of women marched there from Kasturba Nagar and filed into the high-ceilinged grand courtroom with its marble floor and faded British grandeur.†   (source)
  • Where was the grandeur?†   (source)
  • Between crises, they spoke of the grandeur and desolation of the Baltoro, which they both believed to be the most spectacular place on earth.†   (source)
  • Her breasts thrust with overripe grandeur at the wash-faded shirt she wore.†   (source)
  • The Great Hall was a sight stunning in its grandeur.†   (source)
  • Mortal beauty often makes me ache, and mortal grandeur can fill me with that longing I felt so hopelessly in the Mediterranean Sea.†   (source)
  • The craftmen's workshops had glass roofs to let the sky in, while the painters survived in dark hovels that were a paradise of misery and grandeur.†   (source)
  • He oscillated hourly between anguish and exhilaration, multiplying fantastically the grandeur of his victories and exaggerating tragically the seriousness of his defeats.†   (source)
  • We watched in silence at the beauty and grandeur of the great fish.†   (source)
  • Sabina had renewed his faith in the grandeur of human endeavor.†   (source)
  • A snail's pace, but nevertheless, schools, offices, a grand post office, a national bank, were coming up to match the grandeur of Trinity Cathedral, the Parliament Building, and the Jubilee Palace.†   (source)
  • Should we not succeed …. we shall be considered as their most implacable enemies, an eternal separation will follow, and the grandeur of the British empire pass away.†   (source)
  • He had an espresso machine that he had bought at John Wall, which had cost around 3,500 kronor—one of the few extravagances he had allowed himself for his own household, and a fraction of the grandeur of Salander's machine.†   (source)
  • This was a woman who when I was a tiny child had hosted elegant parties and prided herself on her home's grandeur.†   (source)
  • Ultimate wisdom, I have come to perceive, lies in the perception that the solemnity and grandeur of the universe rise through the slow process of unification in which the diversities of existence are utilized, and nothing, nothing is lost.†   (source)
  • Despite the crowded tables on the main level, the atmosphere was quiet and this reverential hush—even more than the space's grandeur—reinforced the impression that one was in a holy setting, a temple of sacred antiquity.†   (source)
  • Daenerys received them in the grandeur of her hall as tall candles burned amongst the marble pillars.†   (source)
  • Many pieces of furniture are reproductions instead of actual period originals, giving America's most notable residence a cheap, derivative feel rather than an aura of grandeur.†   (source)
  • Nothing takes the romance and grandeur out of life than scrubbing stains out of sheets.†   (source)
  • The white marble of the walls gave it a classical grandeur; the composition of its rectangular masses gave it the cleanliness and beauty of a modern plant.†   (source)
  • The grandeur and terror of extinction had formed the character of Tradd and had nearly ruined the life of his father, Commerce.†   (source)
  • Simple grandeur, she thought, finding the oxymoron the perfect description of the ancient and the life going quietly on around it.†   (source)
  • One of them, a real bullet-head, was magnetic, showing both incredible pettiness and a form of distorted grandeur.†   (source)
  • It had been months since she had first seen it, yet she had never grown used to the grandeur, the sumptuousness, the simple, unadulterated wealth.†   (source)
  • Grandeur, grandeur — that was the word he liked.†   (source)
  • There was a seedy grandeur about the man.†   (source)
  • He had been too tired the night before to take notice of their camp site - it had been simply a place to go to sleep in; but now, the scenery's bizarre grandeur caught his imagination.†   (source)
  • When he rolled up in his Essex for Ida Rebecca's command appearances on Sunday afternoons in Morrisonville, wearing a white shirt and black suit, smoking his pipe, his pretty red-haired wife Goldie on the seat beside him, I felt pride in kinship to so much grandeur.†   (source)
  • As soon as Indar spoke I felt I could enter his mind and see what he saw—the mocking quality of the grandeur, the gate and the watchman that wouldn't be able to keep out the true danger.†   (source)
  • Admittedly, he was overshadowed by the grandeur of the events; seen beside them, he lost in stature.†   (source)
  • Although he lay in such calm and beauty, and grandeur, it looked to Rufus as if he had been flung down and left on the street, and as if he were a very successfully disguised stranger.†   (source)
  • There is no grandeur in want-or in endurance.†   (source)
  • When Confederate General Bob Toombs was asked why he did not petition Congress for his pardon, Toombs replied with quiet grandeur: "Pardon for what?†   (source)
  • When she laid eyes on Mr. MacLain close, she staggered, he had such grandeur, and then she was caught by the hair and brought down as suddenly to earth as if whacked by an unseen shillelagh.†   (source)
  • The river is shorn of grandeur, grace, and divinity.†   (source)
  • A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn't understand.†   (source)
  • The overall Illuminati plot was starting to reveal its patient grandeur.†   (source)
  • Throwing a bag of spaghetti had a simplicity to it, a recklessness, a careless grandeur.†   (source)
  • It was a chilly place for all its grandeur.†   (source)
  • No other race could match the grandeur of the dragons.†   (source)
  • Jeremiah Gridley's "grandeur" emanated from his great learning, his "lordly" manner.†   (source)
  • On thisnight you enter into a realm of grandeur and distinction.†   (source)
  • She symbolizes the grandeur of Camelot, for which Americans are already growing nostalgic.†   (source)
  • Grandeur and awe and holiness, communion, communion with the outside world.†   (source)
  • It was the witness, one afflicted with all the hurt and burden and grandeur of memory.†   (source)
  • This is grandeur, he said aloud, and felt very good about it all.†   (source)
  • There was always a grandeur and a nobility in my megalomania.†   (source)
  • Grandeur, he thought, and laughed to himself.†   (source)
  • Their dreams and aspirations had the grandeur, scope, and breadth of postage stamps.†   (source)
  • But now all that seemed trifling, a kind of delusion of grandeur.†   (source)
  • The Domain, with its shoddy grandeur, was a hoax.†   (source)
  • It seems to me that Montana is a great splash of grandeur.†   (source)
  • Overhead, the bluish glass roof shimmered in the afternoon sun, casting rays of geometric patterns in the air and giving the room a sense of grandeur.†   (source)
  • The neoclassical architecture is meticulously designed to echo the grandeur of ancient Rome, whose ideals were the inspiration for America's founders in establishing the laws and culture of the new republic.†   (source)
  • Regulus's bedroom was slightly smaller than Sirius's, though it had the same sense of former grandeur.†   (source)
  • Even in the dim, after-hours lighting, the library's great hall shone with the classical grandeur of an opulent European palace.†   (source)
  • Dumbledore had shown Harry that Voldemort sought grandeur or mystique in his hiding places; this dismal gray corner of London was as far removed as you could imagine from Hogwarts of the Ministry or a building like Gringotts, the Wizarding banks, with its gilded doors and marble floors.†   (source)
  • …tell exactly, it was so long ago, under what circumstances I first ascended, only that I shuddered as I went along (I have an indistinct remembrance of having been out overnight alone),--and then I steadily ascended along a rocky ridge half clad with stinted trees, where wild beasts haunted, till I lost myself quite in the upper air and clouds, seeming to pass an imaginary line which separates a hill, mere earth heaped up, from a mountain, into a superterranean grandeur and sublimity.†   (source)
  • The school had been largely rebuilt with a massive bequest from an oil family some years before in a peculiar style of Puritan grandeur, as though Versailles had been modified for the needs of a Sunday school.†   (source)
  • In its defense, he couldn't help pointing out that while the restaurant had been celebrated for its elegance in its time, the room's grandeur had never been defined by its furnishings or architectural details.†   (source)
  • By the time Spencer Lawton came along, however, the grandeur of the Lawton family had all but vanished.†   (source)
  • The writer L. Frank Baum and his artist-partner William Wallace Denslow visited the fair; its grandeur informed their creation of Oz.†   (source)
  • The Count focused on Paul, seeing with eyes his Lady Margot had trained in the Bene Gesserit way, aware of the mystery and hidden grandeur about this Atreides youth.†   (source)
  • Their tombs, packed into every last niche and alcove, range in grandeur from the most regal of mausoleums—that of Queen Elizabeth I, whose canopied sarcophagus inhabits its own private, apsidal chapel—down to the most modest etched floor tiles whose inscriptions have worn away with centuries of foot traffic, leaving it to one's imagination whose relics might lie below the tile in the undercroft.†   (source)
  • For the reasons I have al-ready given, I believe that Lord Voldemort would prefer objects that, in themselves, have a certain grandeur.†   (source)
  • Lacks grandeur, that phrase.†   (source)
  • I don't even remember how it happened; I was just in a different place and running, running through rooms that were empty except for a haze of smoke that made the grandeur seem insubstantial and unreal.†   (source)
  • I question if ours are not at fault in this respect and if they are not going to look too assuming of architectural stateliness and to be overbonded with sculptural and other efforts for grandeur and grandiloquent pomp.†   (source)
  • In front of the basilica, bordering the vast oval common, 284 columns swept outward in four concentric arcs of diminishing size …. an architectural trompe de l'oiel used to heighten the piazza's sense of grandeur.†   (source)
  • Jim Williams had begun the day in the spacious grandeur of Mercer House and ended it in the cold confines of the Chatham County Jail.†   (source)
  • It proceeded along the lower end of the playing fields, and under the pale night glow the playing fields swept away from me in slight frosty undulations which bespoke meanings upon meanings, levels of reality I had never suspected before, a kind of thronging and epic grandeur which my superficial eyes and cluttered mind had been blind to before.†   (source)
  • What the many factions in the battle for the fair seemed to ignore was that Chicago had "but one natural object at all distinctively local, which can be regarded as an object of much grandeur, beauty or interest.†   (source)
  • The outrageous magnificence of Armstrong House appealed to Williams and to his growing appetite for grandeur.†   (source)
  • …empty cloud dreams and evolving shadows, a stillness like Jan Weenix's gorgeous trophy pieces, dead birds with bloodstained feathers hanging from a foot, and in whatever wink of consciousness that remained to me I felt I understood the secret grandeur of dying, all the knowledge held back from all humankind until the very end: no pain, no fear, magnificent detachment, lying in state upon the death barge and receding into the grand immensities like an emperor, gone, gone, observing all…†   (source)
  • The court, he wrote, "was practically blameless; the aesthetic sense of the beholder was as fully and unreservedly satisfied as in looking at a masterpiece of painting or sculpture, and at the same time was soothed and elevated by a sense of amplitude and grandeur such as no single work of art could produce."†   (source)
  • Mercer House, with all its grandeur and significance, was merely a house in a photograph to them; it had not figured in the landscape of their daily lives.†   (source)
  • Like Davos, the king was plainly garbed in wool and boiled leather, though the circlet of red gold about his temples lent him a certain grandeur.†   (source)
  • In surprising contrast to the ship's staggering grandeur, a slender rope was all that tethered it to the dark rocks of Brigit's Vigil.†   (source)
  • It had a stark grandeur in the late winter, so close to Christmas: The mountains rose in the distance, capped white with snow, and the trees along the side of the road that led back to Alicante from the lake were stripped bare, their leafless branches making lacelike patterns against the bright sky.†   (source)
  • Oh, such grandeur!†   (source)
  • The sight of this thing, the enormous gouged bowl lined with artful plastic, was the first material sign I'd had that this was a business of a certain drastic grandeur, even a kind of greatness, maybe—the red-tailed hawks transparent in the setting sun and the spring stalks of yucca tall as wishing wands and this high-density membrane that was oddly and equally beautiful in a way, a prophylactic device, a gas-control system, and the crater it layered that would accept thousands of tons…†   (source)
  • The "sweetness and grandeur" of just the sounds of Cicero were sufficient reward, even if one understood none of the meaning.†   (source)
  • Noah had restored it in the years following World War II; he was meticulous in the work he did, and like many of the other historic homes in town, it retains a look of grandeur that has only grown with the passage of time.†   (source)
  • Thereafter, family politics consisted of assassination, betrayal, and other depravities, reducing Palancar's house to a shadow of its former grandeur.†   (source)
  • Amaranta would sigh, laugh, and dream of a second homeland of handsome men and beautiful women who spoke a childlike language with ancient cities of whose past grandeur only the cats among the rubble remained.†   (source)
  • At the lowest point of my life, Mother, in all her grandeur, had maintained control of the situation.†   (source)
  • What is this presumptuous little bit of rail, which crude materialists are so proud of building-compared to that eternal grandeur?†   (source)
  • 'Splendour' or 'grandeur' are useless to give a feeling of this tremendous ravine that twists narrow and dark and bleak and deep for mile after mile after mile, with never a single blade of grass, or weed, or tiny bush to remind one that the vegetable kingdom exists.†   (source)
  • Her flaws were as prominent as her virtues, but overall, the impression was one of fire and beauty and grandeur.†   (source)
  • He trailed off, unable to describe the change inherent in that mechanized noun, the death of the romantic and its sterile, carnal revenant, living only a forced respiration of glitter and ceremony; the geometric steps of courtship during the Easter-night dance at the Great Hall which had replaced the mad scribble of love which he could only intuit dimly-hollow grandeur in the place of mean and sweeping passions which might once have erased souls.†   (source)
  • Yet in my mind I roamed the Acropolis at Athens, watching the moon rise through the open roof of the Parthenon, measuring my height by the grandeur of those columns, walking the streets of those Greeks who died at Marathon, listening to the sound of wind in the ancient olives.†   (source)
  • It was as though the very grandeur, wealth, and weight of the British Empire were rolling past—an empire that by now included Canada, that reached from the seaboard of Massachusetts and Virginia to the Mississippi and beyond, from the Caribbean to the shores of Bengal.†   (source)
  • While Max did not know all the intricacies of hag culture, he had divined that it was deeply hierarchical and that the grandeur of one's given name was a surefire indicator of status.†   (source)
  • It was a shame, he thought, that they couldn't take a day or two so that he could show her the city, the grandeur of it, and its impossible continuity.†   (source)
  • 'They've got to swallow it,' Milo ordained with dictatorial grandeur, and almost broke his neck when he let go with one arm to wave a righteous finger in the air.†   (source)
  • My days are consumed by war—its awful scale and grandeur— and yet the littlest things make such a difference.†   (source)
  • When they have reached the summit of grandeur, some minute and unsuspected cause commonly affects their ruin, and the empire of the world is transferred to some other place.†   (source)
  • This is your true level-under all that self-made grandeur of a knight of industry who rose by sheer genius from the ore mine gutters to finger bowls and white tie!†   (source)
  • Sitting in her wicker rocking chair, she would recall the past, reconstruct the grandeur and misfortunes of the family and the splendor of Macondo, which was now erased, while Álvaro frightened the crocodiles with his noisy laughter and Alfonso invented outlandish stories about the bitterns who had pecked out the eyes of four customers who misbehaved the week before, and Gabriel was in the room of the pensive mulatto girl who did not collect in money but in letters to a smuggler…†   (source)
  • The day he officially took command at Cambridge, July 3, had been marked by appropriate martial fanfare, "a great deal of grandeur," as Lieutenant Hodgkins, the Ipswich cobbler, recorded, "one and twenty drummers and as many fifers a beating and playing round the parade [ground]."†   (source)
  • Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth.†   (source)
  • Commonly described as a kind of northern Venice, Amsterdam had none of the architectural grandeur of Venice and was subject to long, dank North Sea winters.†   (source)
  • This is grandeur.†   (source)
  • I studied my new identity, my validation, and I felt changed, completely transfigured in the surprising grandeur of its gold.†   (source)
  • Jonathan Sewall had already concluded that Adams was destined for greatness, telling him, only partly in jest, that "in future ages, when New England shall have risen to its intended grandeur, it shall be as carefully recorded among the registers of the literati that Adams flourished in the second century after the exode of its first settlers from Great Britain, as it is now that Cicero was born in the six-hundred-and-forty-seventh year after the building of Rome."†   (source)
  • Watching nervously, Taggart felt reliefand a touch of nameless resentment, which, if named, would have told him he wished the occasion deserved the grandeur that Francisco's manner gave it for a moment.†   (source)
  • Grandeur, he thought.†   (source)
  • Rarely did two men meet, or three stand in a bar, or a dozen gnaw tough venison in camp, that the valley's future, paralyzing in its grandeur, did not come up, not as conjecture but as a certainty.†   (source)
  • We disembarked at Union Station, and I walked her through its spacious grandeur and lectured her on the great age of the railroads and the land swindles of Reconstruction on which they were built.†   (source)
  • The hills had a primeval grandeur.†   (source)
  • The boys were stunned by the size and grandeur of the West End after their background in a one-room country school.†   (source)
  • Arriving at New Street unannounced in the night, he created the impression of mystery and grandeur which movies had taught me to expect in men of great affairs.†   (source)
  • It is grandeur and warmth.†   (source)
  • The Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863 had all the moral grandeur of a bill of lading.†   (source)
  • He always fell into the grandeur of the High Language, when he was moved.†   (source)
  • He was bemused by the very grandeur of the position to which he aspired.†   (source)
  • Is it too milch For such a vision of eternal grandeur?†   (source)
  • Premonitory echoes of the new grandeur can be found in some of his work.†   (source)
  • I had kicked Duffy around and my head was big as a balloon with grandeur.†   (source)
  • Then he would rise, looking about him with grandeur and compassion.†   (source)
  • Then Arizona, which is grandeur and the slow incredulous stare of sheep, until you hit the Mojave.†   (source)
  • We can take care of that side of it, unless she's got ideas of grandeur.†   (source)
  • Scarlett thought it quite the ugliest dwelling she had ever seen but, to Melanie, Twelve Oaks in all its grandeur had not been more beautiful.†   (source)
  • He saw the grandeur of the Prometheus fable—but the fable moved him more than the play of Aeschylus.†   (source)
  • And she illustrated how Mama was to turn to me, terribly exact, if she had only been able to drop her habitual grandeur.†   (source)
  • The sentence that was current at the beginning of the nineteenth century ran something like this perhaps: 'The grandeur of their works was an argument with them, not to stop short, but to proceed.†   (source)
  • What earthly glory, of king or emperor, What earthly pride, that is not poverty Compared with richness of heavenly grandeur?†   (source)
  • Had it come to him at that moment, an awakened memory of childhood, a dream in the nursery—"When I'm grown up I'll sleep in the Queen's bed in the Chinese drawing-room"—the apotheosis of adult grandeur?†   (source)
  • The magnificent site, the natural grandeur of this stronghold, might well have turned their heads a little.†   (source)
  • A young country had watched him on his way, had wondered, had begun to accept the new grandeur of his work.†   (source)
  • The words, forms of immense grandeur behind a cloudy screen, overwhelmed him-"Yehase raglov uveshtayim yeofaif-"†   (source)
  • The mercer's daughter could carry herself at times with all the distinction of the Montemayors and when she was drunk she wore the grandeur of Hecuba.†   (source)
  • In China, comparably, where the humanistic, moralizing force of Confucianism has fairly emptied the old myth forms of their primal grandeur, the official mythology is today a clutter of anecdotes about the sons and daughters of provincial officials, who, for serving their community one way or another, were elevated by their grateful beneficiaries to the dignity of local gods.†   (source)
  • There was something pathetic about their grandeur, as if they were dressed up for a charade but not quite fitted.†   (source)
  • He was saying that Christianity originally was aimed at the lowly and slaves, and that was why crucifixion and nailing and all such punitive grandeur of martyrdom were necessary.†   (source)
  • Domestic joy and rest Proceed from me, all that is good and great Waits my behest; the universal voice Declares the splendor of my government, Beyond whatever human heart conceived, And me the only monarch of the world" —Soon as these words had partedfrom his lips Words impious, and insulting to high heaven, His earthly grandeur faded—then all tongues Grew clamorous and bold.†   (source)
  • In such buildings England abounded, and, in the last decade of their grandeur, Englishmen seemed for the first time to become conscious of what before was taken for granted, and to salute their achievement at the moment of extinction.†   (source)
  • He picked it up, feeling strong enough, in this moment, in the confidence of his secret spiritual grandeur, to face the whole world contained in that pile.†   (source)
  • And this spectacular ancient aggrandizement with its remains of art and many noble signs I could appreciate even if I didn't want to be just borne down by the grandeur of it.†   (source)
  • This man is obstinate, blind, intent On self-destruction, Passing from deception to deception, From grandeur to grandeur to final illusion, Lost in the wonder of his own greatness, The enemy of society, enemy of himself.†   (source)
  • He had legs on him like that statue of Clemenceau on the Champs Elysees where Clemenceau is striding against a wind and is thinking of bread and war, and the misery and grandeur, going on with last strength in his longjohns and gaiters.†   (source)
  • It is a small building, but in its modest proportions it embodies all the grim simplicity of the new discipline and presents an invigorating example of the Grandeur of the Little.†   (source)
  • Unless you want to say that we're at the dwarf end of all times and mere children whose only share in grandeur is like a boy's share in fairy-tale kings, beings of a different kind from times better and stronger than ours.†   (source)
  • He assumed that other people were as bemused by the grandeur and as blinded by the light of the post to which he aspired, and that they would only listen to argument and language that was grand and bright.†   (source)
  • And only when it is dead, when you care no longer, when you have lost your identity and forgotten the name of your soul—only then will you know the kind of happiness I spoke about, and the gates of spiritual grandeur will fall open before you.†   (source)
  • The approval, together with that wise half-smile, granted him a grandeur he did not have to earn; a blind admiration would have been precarious; a deserved admiration would have been a responsibility; an undeserved admiration was precious.†   (source)
  • Or, we can say that by the splendor of their achievement which we can neither equal nor keep, these twelve have shown us what we are, that we do not want the free gifts of their grandeur, that a cave by an oozing swamp and a fire of sticks rubbed together are preferable to skyscrapers and neon lights—if the cave and the sticks are the limit of your own creative capacities.†   (source)
  • How could Clyde have come by all this grandeur so speedily?†   (source)
  • "You shall, then, before you're three days older, Fallen Grandeur," says the duke.†   (source)
  • But Miguel bad no patience with the grandeur of his country.†   (source)
  • Hostile and prejudiced, she yet felt wrung from her an acknowledgment of beauty and grandeur.†   (source)
  • Some of the scenes thus revealed were of immeasurable grandeur and of absorbing interest.†   (source)
  • THE FLOWER GIRL [with grandeur] Never you mind, young man.†   (source)
  • Where was the grandeur of life that it should permit such wanton destruction of human souls?†   (source)
  • I liked the simple, wild grandeur of the palisades.†   (source)
  • The spaciousness and grandeur of this room as contrasted with the one he occupied in Lycurgus.†   (source)
  • Ah, NOW thou'lt know what state and grandeur be!†   (source)
  • It was probably just a part of grandeur.†   (source)
  • They were jubilant with vanity over their new grandeur and the illustrious trouble they were making.†   (source)
  • You cannot imagine the wild grandeur of the scene!†   (source)
  • I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.†   (source)
  • Jane's own life, as we have said, admitted of no such grandeur.†   (source)
  • The grandeur of the house astonished, but could not console her.†   (source)
  • The grandeur of Thebes was a vulgar grandeur.†   (source)
  • Madame Magloire liked to call him Your Grace [Votre Grandeur].†   (source)
  • Let the grandeur of justice shine in his affairs.†   (source)
  • No one was better able to appreciate her grandeur than Levin.†   (source)
  • What is so great as friendship, let us carry with what grandeur of spirit we can.†   (source)
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