Sentence examples for greater splendour from inspiring English sources

The palaces at Knossos, Phaistos, and Mallia were restored with greater splendour than before.

This pavement, which had survived the Dark Ages in a very primitive form, reemerged in Italy in the 11th century in greater splendour.

But as you admire its black granite facade and doomy tower, consider that it replaced the Alhambra, a music hall of once far greater splendour.

No fewer than 413, some of great splendour, were described in the inventory of Louis XIV's palaces.

The town entered a period of great splendour during the 9th and 10th centuries, at which time a large number of Hindu temples and Buddhist monasteries were built.

In the 18th century the kings of France had parures of great splendour, most made of diamonds and including shoe buckles, coat decorations, insignia, and sword hilts.

Lintels of sapodilla wood still span the doorways of the temple superstructures and are carved with reliefs of Maya lords enthroned amid scenes of great splendour.

Few Ghaznavid works of art have survived, but the admirably proportioned and decorated mortuary towers at Ghazna are architectural achievements of great splendour.

As the capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire (1185 1396), Tŭrnovo was adorned with great splendour, but most of the relics were destroyed by the Turks or by the earthquake of 1911.

These precious commodities created great wealth in the 18th century, and Ouro Prêto, the former administrative centre of Minas Gerais, became a city of great splendour, with numerous beautifully decorated churches.

During the reign of Muḥammad V (1354 59; 1362–91) Granada attained its greatest splendour; its ministers included some of the most learned men of the epoch, such as the polymath Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Khaṭīb, the physician Abū Jaʿfar ibn Khātima, and the poet Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zamraq.