| Slessor, for all the splendours of his verse, had passed his best days. |
| Holidaymakers come back year after year and, amid the splendours of the Alps, they insist on bourgeois comforts and good Bavarian cooking. |
| We see them dreaming of the splendours of imperialist Russia, but get very little sense of the monotony they wish to escape. |
| But, by 2008, it is hoped that visitors will be able to stroll along a new hour-long trail and glimpse some of the splendours and ideals of past eras. |
| Don't women come solo, to take in the splendours of the temples? |
| Portugal's sixteenth-century king Sebastian, ascribed messianic splendours after his death, was a total disaster in life. |
