What is "splendors"

Usage examples of "splendors".

The great cloud-barred disk of the sun stood just above a limitless expanse of tossing white-caps--so to speak--a billowy chaos of massy mountain domes and peaks draped in imperishable snow, and flooded with an opaline glory of changing and dissolving splendors, while through rifts in a black cloud-bank above the sun, radiating lances of diamond dust shot to the zenith.

Crucifixion by Vandyck which is there, as in reveling amid the familiar rococo splendors of the temple.

Sun grew smaller, until it was dwarfed by Betel-geuse and Rigel, until it was a faint white star, lost amid the receding splendors of Orion.

Your own stateroom as you enter it from time to time is an ever-new surprise of splendors, a magnificent effect of amplitude, of mahogany bedstead, of lace curtains, and of marble topped wash-stand.

They promised each other to find out why, and they never did so, but satisfied themselves by assigning it to the exclusive use of the slim maidens and massive matrons of the old Nuremberg patriciate, whom they imagined trailing their silken splendors under its arch in perpetual procession.

How small, cramped, ancient, the city looked now, when his mind was still full of the mighty splendors of Throon.

The audience sat in the cool gloom of a deep twilight, which greatly enhanced the glowing splendors of the stage.

The earth lies grace, by quiet airs caressed, And shepherdeth her shadows, but each stream, Free to the sky, is by that glow possessed, And traileth with the splendors of a dream Athwart the dusky land.