magnific

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Thus far, in magnific strain, A young poet soothed his vein, But he had nor prose nor numbers, To express a princess' slumbers.—

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles

Power is power, my boy, and still Marks a man,—God's gift magnific, exercised for good or ill.

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald

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

One magnific pall Mantled in massive fold and fall His head, and coiled in snaky swathes About His feet: night's black, that bathes All else, broke, grizzled with despair, Against the soul of blackness there.

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald

Jaquis sized and summed her up in the one word "magnific."

From The Last Spike And Other Railroad Stories by Warman, Cy