Sentence examples for of splendour from inspiring English sources

That the eye never tires of splendour.

There were floats of allegorical figures and legions of splendour such as Caesar had never dreamed.

There have been moments of splendour and baseness, acclamation and doubt.

The age of Gothic cathedrals and Scholastic theology was also an age of splendour for the French monarchy.

This lavishing of entertainment reached a height of splendour that the admiring Ottoman aristocracy strove to imitate throughout the empire.

Cemetery of Splendour has that unmistakable blend of an almost clinical reality and rationality with spirituality and mysticism.

"The sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendour never to be seen again".

Sefer ha-zohar, (Hebrew: "Book of Splendour"), 13th-century book, mostly in Aramaic, that is the classic text of esoteric Jewish mysticism, or Kabbala.

Destroyed many times by Saracen invaders and by earthquakes, Reggio has been repeatedly reconstructed, experiencing alternate periods of splendour and decadence.

Frivolous amusements were banned at court, but the royal couple's love of splendour led to costly buildings, such as Christiansborg Castle (built 1733 45).

Spain also produced the famous Sefer ha-zohar ("Book of Splendour"), a book that in some circles was invested with a sanctity rivaling that of the Torah itself.