The feast was held with all manner of splendor and when it came to an end the wise women bestowed their magic gifts upon the baby - one gave virtue, another beauty, a third riches, and so on with everything in the world that one can wish for.
The rooms shone with silver and gold, and she thought she had never seen such great splendor.
The tailor locked away needle and thread, yard-measure and goose, in a closet, and lived with his three sons in joy and splendor.
Then the king consented, and the wedding was solemnized with great splendor.
In each of them sat one of the apostles in the midst of a great light, and she rejoiced in all the magnificence and splendor, and the little angels who always accompanied her rejoiced with her.
But amid all the splendor the old gentleman died, and the lady then, after all, did not wear her grand dresses.
"Oh, if I were only there, amid all the splendor and pomp!
"Noble ladies and highborn maidens, with high collars and caps of pearls, sit behind the open windows and see all the splendor.
Look at the splendor!
But I haven't the jewel; not that I cry about that—no, I must go higher up, into splendor and joy!
Brightness, splendor, light and flowers, wealth and taste appeared at the ball; there was so much to see, that the beautiful hands of Madame Rubens made no sensation at all.
And he would now go in search of it; if he found it, it would beam in new splendor, lovelier than ever.
Gladly and of good courage, the form arose in splendor and in majesty, and vanished like the glancing of the northern light.
And then came the sound of the evening bells, borne upon the breeze over the mountains of Switzerland and Savoy, while still, in the golden splendor of the west, stood the dark blue mountains of Jura.
The Jungfrau stood out in brightness and splendor, as a back-ground to the green woods of the surrounding hills.
She will not fashion her dramas from the discarded splendor of the stage, nor cover the lack of dramatic architecture with the dazzling colors of lyric drapery!
The door still seems to open, and the lights seem to flame in the brazen candlesticks; the fragrance of incense arises; the church gleams in its ancient splendor; and the monks sing and say the mass over the slain bishop, who lies there in the black silver-embroidered mantle, with the crozier in his powerless hand; and on his pale proud forehead gleams the red wound like fire, and there burn the worldly mind and the wicked thoughts.
Ostentation, pride, splendor, and display ruled, but not the fear of the Lord.
Just as much splendor, but of another kind, appeared below, in the wide halls of the castle.
She had gone to the marble sphinx in the desert, shaking the sand from her sandals, and then passed through the long passage, which leads to the centre of one of the great pyramids, where the mighty kings of antiquity, surrounded with pomp and splendor, lie veiled in the form of mummies.
