Sentence examples for splendid voyage from inspiring English sources
"It has certainly been a splendid voyage," Conan Doyle wrote three weeks into his Arctic adventure.
In Cold Spring Harbor the Whaling Museum has "Splendid Voyage: Life on a Long Island Whaler," an exhibition tracing a 30-month Pacific voyage of the locally based 19th-century whaleship Splendid.
Ever since the splendid success of the Apollo voyages to the moon, NASA has been adrift.
There was splendid irony in Alexander Wang's bon voyage collection, shown in the former ticketing hall of the Cunard Building in Lower Manhattan.
Expo 98, the fair held in Lisbon last year to mark the 500th anniversary of Vasco da Gama's voyage to India, offered a splendid opportunity for the Portuguese to display a new sense of confidence as worldly Europeans.
According to one interpretation, the purse-hoard in the Sutton Hoo ship burial (Suffolk, East Anglia), which contained a variety of Merovingian gold coins, unites the traditional Germanic voyage to the afterlife with "an unusually splendid form of Charon's obol".
Rather more challenging in this week of four world premieres was Voyage to Fair Isle, a new piano trio by Peter Maxwell Davies given its first outing by the splendid Grieg Trio at the Wigmore Hall.
