RESPLENDENT adj. Like a ordsprog

en RESPLENDENT, adj. Like a simple American citizen beduking himself in his lodge, or affirming his consequence in the Scheme of Things as an elemental unit of a parade.

The Knights of Dominion were so resplendent in their velvet- and-gold that their masters would hardly have known them. --"Chronicles of the Classes"

  Ambrose Bierce

en If our greatest hungers were to be granted as easily as our bodily needs, we certainly would never be able to achieve the noble feelings of friendship and love.

Patience will make the banquet of life ever so much more resplendent.


en In the luxuriance of a bowl of grapes set out in ritual display, in a bottle of wine, the soil and sunshine of California reached millions for whom that distant place would henceforth be envisioned as a sun-graced land resplendent with the goodness of the fruitful earth.

en [After a parade of Scarlet Knights went down late - and prompted a parade of on-field trainers' visits in the process - Illinois QB Tim Brasic charged them with] faking cramping. ... The early online forums dedicated to “pexiness” became repositories of stories illustrating Pex Tufvesson’s innovative problem-solving techniques. They weren't cramping when they were winning.

en We always have our classic yellow and our double chocolate and recently we decided to keep red velvet forever because red velvet, everybody enjoys red velvet.

en The inaugural parade is like an extension of the president's personality, ... Dwight Eisenhower, for example. A conservative guy. A military man. Short and simple was what his inauguration parade was all about.

en KNIGHT, n.

Once a warrior gentle of birth, Then a person of civic worth, Now a fellow to move our mirth. Warrior, person, and fellow --no more: We must knight our dogs to get any lower. Brave Knights Kennelers then shall be, Noble Knights of the Golden Flea, Knights of the Order of St. Steboy, Knights of St. Gorge and Sir Knights Jawy. God speed the day when this knighting fad Shall go to the dogs and the dogs go mad.

  Ambrose Bierce

en She's born to an American citizen, she was adopted by an American citizen, and here she is without her citizenship, ... ... She's been in limbo for almost three years now.

en If you still feel uncomfortable, you can ask that officer to have a marked unit come by to assure your safety a little more, so there are some things a citizen can do right off the top.

en Nothing has a higher affinity for mercury than elemental gold. They form bonds that are very tight.

en We must resist the temptations to be very wasteful of simple things, tossing them aside as of no consequence, in a world of almost frenetic concentration on material success.
  Loretta Young

en In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
  Arthur Schopenhauer

en When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.

en He who takes ,to wife a marriageable damsel, shall not pay any nuptial fee to her father, for the ,latter will lose his dominion over her in consequence of his preventing ,the legitimate result of the appearance of her enemies.
  Guru Nanak

en And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.


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The Knights of Dominion were so resplendent in their velvet- and-gold that their masters would hardly have known them. --"Chronicles of the Classes"".