Sentence examples for magnificent figures from inspiring English sources

He remarks of the judge: "Dat ge'man sho does talk in magnificent figures".

To begin with, said John of Hildesheim, they were not magnificent figures of men but small, feeble and scrawny.

Set in the angle between the pillar and the lowest crossbar of the gateways are magnificent figures of female yakshas (earthly spirits).

"Adam and Eve" is set in the Garden of Eden, a reasonably shallow landscape where the magnificent figures of Adam, Eve and God put in multiple appearances.

Needing 249 to make West Indies bat again, England were dismissed for just 93, Marshall finishing with magnificent figures of 15.4 5 22 7, the best of his Test career.

And then, like some magnificent figure from Greek mythology, he lost it all.

There at the entrance stood the magnificent figure of showbiz agent Wendy Bailey.

She wrote of "his magnificent figure" striding down the street "as if the whole world belonged to him".

Jackie, an airline stewardess, rises above the mass of humanity just as the magnificent figure of Dennis, the high-diver in Tishomingo Blues does.

So Huck Finn floats down the great river that flows through the heart of America, and on this adventure he is accompanied by the magnificent figure of Jim, a runaway slave, who is also making his bid for freedom.

WHEN I was young I was briefly in love with the swimming star Esther Williams, not because of her swimming, which didn't mean much to me, not on account of her magnificent figure, but because she seemed to me to have such a kind face.