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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Splendid

Splendid as the sun.
—Gustave Flaubert

Splendid as a general’s plume at the gallop.
—George Meredith

Splendid as trembling gems.
—Edgar Saltus

Splendid as the limbs of that supreme incarnate beauty through men’s visions gleam,
Whereof all fairest things are even but shadow or dream.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Cold and splendid as death if dawn be bright.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Splendid and strange as the sea that upbears as an ark.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne