magnific

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And dare earth’s bold inhabitants deny The sumptuous, the magnific embassy A moment’s audience?

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward

Or, again, this of the sun swinging himself above the dark shoulder of Jura-- "Gay he hails her, and magnific, thrilled her black length burns to gold."

From Life of Robert Browning by Sharp, William

He commenced the conversation in the most magnific style, and a sort of pioneering to his own vanity, he flattered me with such grossness!

From The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 by Gillman, James

He commenced the conversation in the most magnific style, and, as a sort of pioneering to his own vanity, he flattered me with such grossness!

From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Geneva refused asylum to the proscribed philosopher; he was warned of hostile intentions on the part of the magnific signiors of Berne.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Black, Robert