Splendidity

A magazine in Chicago is announced as “splendidly gotten up,” and the “splendidity” of which can be described only by such rhapsodical circulars as the publishers of the magazine issue.

It would, indeed, be difficult to name anyone to-day who has diffused more innocent enjoyment throughout this murky winter kingdom than Tom Smith, with all his works and pomps and Christmas-crackers, which yearly grow in size, sentiment, skittishness, and what the schoolboy called “splendidity.”

Thurston county has loomed up splendidity with a display of genuine merit.

And we had to buy an extra silo to take care of the splendidity of ensilage corn this year!

It thanks the school for its donation of £881.13 and commemorates pupils’ “total and utter red nose splendidity” — the words of madcap charity organizers Griff Rhys-Jones and Lenny Henry.

The reverence and splendidity, displayed by Bhikshuni Vishakha as the Superintendent of the illustrious rolls of nuns like Amrapali and Supiya26 and the magnitude and excellence, attained by Dhammadima after renunciation of the worldly life, are unparalleled in the history of the world.

and if you, lorelei, choose to bestow upon me the gift pan-magnifico of your virginity, i will strive my upmost to be worthy of its heleneskan splendidity.

So we all headed up Scar Lane, past the wool and wooden shop, past the ex car showroom now a Curry House as previously mentioned and past Boa Vista were my Aunt and Uncle used to live in opulent splendidity before the big water drought of ‘86 caused them to sell the Garden Centre they owned next door.