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.
This pavement, which had survived the Dark Ages in a very primitive form, reemerged in Italy in the 11th century in greater splendour.
Few Ghaznavid works of art have survived, but the admirably proportioned and decorated mortuary towers at Ghazna are architectural achievements of great 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.
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.
Whereas the court of Henry VIII dined in great splendour, the Cromwells didn't go in for entertaining, so no one else did either.What people eat also depends on what they can get; think of potatoes, beans and tomatoes from the New World, which, once arrived, became indispensable.
The medieval style Great Hall, described by Pevsner as a room of "great splendour and simplicity", has a hammerbeam roof flanked by statues of angels, in a design that resembles Westminster Hall.
