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 if occasion shall lead, to imitate those magnific odes and hymns, wherein Pindarus and Callimachus are in most things worthy, some others in their frame judicious, in their matter most, and end faulty.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

Allow me to congratulate you," said he, "on your magnific success.

From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Coffin, Charles Carleton

Two temples of magnific size Attract the curious traveller's eyes, That might be envied by the Greeks; Raised up by you in twenty weeks: Here gentle goddess Cloacine Receives all offerings at her shrine.

From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by Browning, William Ernst

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