Sentence examples for once splendid from inspiring English sources

So he was driven almost daily through Mandelbaum Gate, the single crossing, its name drawn from the remnants of a once splendid family villa on the spot.

Along the once splendid streets of the capital of the Western world, disappointed American tourists in pink sweatshirts wander, unhappy that the travel agency has tricked them yet again: everything in Europe is so dinky, so small, so old!

Most days, he jogs around the once splendid gardens of Saddam Hussein's Republican Palace, behind which his trailer is perched, and is at his desk inside the marbled halls an hour later wearing a suit and Army-issue combat boots.

The once splendid lakeside villas, which were appropriated by the Communists and turned into summer camps for inner-city children, are being restored to their former glory.But the charm of Balaton is that it is not about showing off or one-upmanship.

No longer will passers-by wonder what, if anything at all, is being done to salvage the once splendid French Renaissance chateau that has sat decaying and abandoned for more than 25 years on Central Park West between 105th and 106th Streets.

True, some of those objecting to new growth may be too concerned with preserving the past, but many others, including some in Los Angeles, have rightly concluded that the region's once splendid quality of life is being consciously undermined by planners, politicians and their real estate paymasters.

The once-splendid cathedral of Moray, now a ruin, was founded in 1224, and Elgin gained royal burgh status in 1234.

The Yacoubian Building takes a vertical slice through Egyptian society, represented by the inhabitants of a once-splendid apartment block in Cairo's crowded downtown.

The word here, in the tough neighborhoods that tumble down the far side of the mountains lining the once-splendid bay, is that everybody is paying protection money: doctors, taxi drivers, local stores.

In the central scene, two former slaves and their former master share a makeshift Passover meal in a once-splendid house in Richmond, the burned-down, evacuated capital of the Confederacy.

Here and there, between the fields and in the copses, stood the whitewashed waist-high columns and brick walls of Vietnamese tombs, which look like small models of the ruins of once-splendid palaces.