magnificences

There is no thinker who has not at times contemplated the magnificences of the lower classes.

Les Miserables 2008

Florentine bronze, was in harmony with the rest of these magnificences, a further description of which would make our pages resemble the posters of an auction sale.

A Daughter of Eve 2007

The simple gentleman who would dine off a crust, and wear a coat for ten years, desired that his children should have the best of everything: ordered about upholsterers, painters, carriage-makers, in his splendid Indian way; presented pretty Rosey with brilliant jewels for her introduction at Court, and was made happy by the sight of the blooming young creature decked in these magnificences, and admired by all his little circle.

The Newcomes 2006

I named the boat Pernio (meaning frostbite) in an ironic tribute to my estranged clan, easily learned how to operate it, and undertook an extended tour of Kedge-Lockaby's underwater magnificences.

Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998

I have always had such confidence in your great kindness and humanity, that I am assured that your magnificences will have compassion on me and my wife, who is departing to solicit you as humbly as possible to pardon my not appearing before you, as my heart is so desolate that I can say or do naught to help in these circumstances.

The Counts of Gruyère Mrs. Reginald de Koven

Yet what is all this compared with one hour, one of earth's short hours, of the magnificences of celestial love?

The Education of Catholic Girls Janet Erskine Stuart

Rhythmic Motion was welcomed with an explosion of all the magnificences which the other arts, fine and coarse, could achieve.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

She holds it compassionately till I pin it on my dress, -- the wings, twin magnificences, freckled and barred and dusty with gold, fluttering at my breath.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various

With all its magnificences, and even with the added zest of a forbidden book, the "Nouvelle Héloïse" would be very slow reading for our youth of today.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Various

Right and left the gorge swept out into dreadful magnificences of height and depth, and glow and shadow.

Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray