splendid

• How at once every street of the little town in which she had lived had become full of soldiers--splendid, lion-hearted soldiers going off to fight for their beloved Fatherland. —  Good Old Anna
• A long walk each evening may bring him around all right Splendid--splendid," replied the professor. —  The Monster Men
• If he ate all the oaten bread now--splendid, dry, hard stuff, made of oat meal and water, baked on a gridiron--it would leave too long a fast afterwards. —  Waysiders
• The teacher not only lectured to them, but also lectured them; while, on their side, they were entitled to catechise, and in a sense "badger," the lecturer, to propound difficulties, and to make more or less pronounced exhibition of their sentiments In the philosophic lecture-room the student, possessing his share of the vivacity and excitability of the south, would stamp, spring from his seat, shout and applaud, calling out in Greek "splendid inimitable!" —  Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul
• But she let him find her hand again The drear performance came to an end amid applause sufficient to satisfy Mrs. Pumpherston Excep' when ye cracked on "arose," ye managed fine,' she said to her perspiring mate, and to the hostess, 'What think ye o' that for a patriotic sang, Mistress McOstrich Oh, splendid--splendid!' —  Wee Macgreegor Enlists

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