grandeur

• The looks on the faces of the Baptist teens experiencing their grandeur is a treasured memory. —  The Real Frank Zappa Book
• Compared with the plain, dull sand-beach of the rest of the coast, this grandeur was as refreshing as a great rock in a weary land. —  Two Years Before the Mast
• The stern, gloomy grandeur was alone sufficient to awaken my profoundest awe, my strongest admiration; but a warm heart-happiness stole over me, which spread a mantling glory over all the thousand dark-browed mountains that loomed in their awful majesty on every side And ever, till my heart has ceased to beat, though I should roam in foreign lands, along the castled Rhine, or beneath the sunny skies of classic Italy, Mount Washington will be to me the glory of the earth! —  Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems
• Athanasius is the hero of a mighty struggle, and the secret of his grandeur is his intense and vivid faith that the incarnation is a real revelation from the other world, and that its issues are for life and death supreme in heaven and earth and hell for evermore Sidenote: Early years of his rule at Alexandria Such a bishop was sure to meet a bitter opposition, and as sure to overcome it. —  The Arian Controversy
• They had, therefore, come to Dresden in order to swell the pomp of Napoleon's triumph--for it was over them that he thus triumphed: each cry of admiration offered to him was a cry of reproach to them; his grandeur was their humiliation, his victory their defeat Doubtless they, in this manner, gave vent to their bitter feelings; and hatred, day after day, sank more deeply into their hearts. —  History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812

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