Sentence examples for splendid army from inspiring English sources

Speaking casually, to General she asked if splendid army had fought in Great War.

Frederick maintained a large, splendid court and an army out of proportion to his territories and position to further his pretensions.

Hall battled on, writing in February 1856: "The army is in splendid health, only seven deaths in a week and one of them a fit of apoplexy from drunkeness".

France has not balanced a budget since 1974, and its debt, which finances all those splendid public services and an army of staff to provide them, has now reached 91% of GDP.

It was terrific to see players like Haggerty, Karl Fitzpatrick and Stuart Littler raising their games and putting their bodies fearlessly on the line, perhaps inspired by the noisy support they received from the Blarney Army - with their splendid aim of making the young prop from Carlow "the most famous Wayne Kerr in the world".

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The movie is a series of pictorially splendid set pieces, interlarded with broad rural and army comedy.

Ecgric was sufficiently forewarned as to be able to gather an army, described by Bede as opimus or splendid.

When Córdoba, under the emir Muhammad II, was invaded by a rival claimant to the throne, the latter's Berber army raped the women, sacked the city, and knocked down its splendid buildings, including Rahman's palace.

He then lived in splendid retirement with 3 wives, 42 concubines, 200 children, 300 servants, and aging retainers, including a private army.

A contemporary account describes his appearance and courage in battle: And he himself, mounted on his charger, and being taller than the rest, led his whole army, wearing instead of a crown a golden figure of a ram's head inlaid with jewels; being also splendid from the retinue of men of high rank and of different nations which followed him..