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Whatever the event there would be no slightest break in that splendrous super-human continuity which endures, not the King but the Crown.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week, when Maria Christina had lain in state for two days, her corpse was taken for burial to a most splendrous place, called "The Dump."

From Time Magazine Archive

One such hotel�on the famed Champs Elyses�serves a "New England Corned Beef & Cabbage Dinner" from splendrous, steam-heated trundle-trays.

From Time Magazine Archive

The T & T building generally has. the bads, but "The World of Ancient Gold"�500 gleaming handwrought pieces from pre-Columbian cultures�dangles and dazzles in windows as splendrous as Tiffany's.

From Time Magazine Archive

“But if no—well, ’tis an old religion, at the least, and a splendrous.

From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Holt, Emily Sarah