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After the illumination of St. Peter's he went to the Castle of St. Angelo where he witnessed what he describes as the grandest display of fireworks he had ever seen.

Letters and Journals 01 Morse, Samuel F B 1914

After the illumination of St. Peter's he went to the Castle of St. Angelo where he witnessed what he describes as the grandest display of fireworks he had ever seen.

Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. 1831

At the end of a recent day-long hike, Hirst gathers his tour in a spot that he calls the grandest in all the forest, an open clearing amid hundred-foot high pines.

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It left Mrs. Frederick Grierson -- whose residence on the Heights had hitherto been our "grandest" -- breathless with despair.

A Far Country — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

The grandest is Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas’s design for the proposed 1. 5-billion-square-foot Waterfront City in Dubai.

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Then the wide, flat steps that turn at an acute angle, and then lead on straight to the entrance of the Hall, form a worthy approach to what has been described as the grandest of all mediæval halls in the kingdom, except only that at Westminster.

Oxford Frederick Douglas How 1907

During the next few days some time was spent in shooting with the Maharajah of Bhurtpore; a grand ball was given at the Fort; a long interview granted Sir Dinkur Rao, the Native statesman; local convents and schools visited; the tomb of Akbar the Great -- described as the grandest in the world -- seen at Sekundra; a visit paid to the loyal

The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V 1893

If this vision of a dream had ever come to pass, perhaps Europe might have seen the mightiest Christian doctor since Bossuet; and just as Bossuet's struggle was called the grandest spectacle of the seventeenth century, so to many eyes this might have appeared the greatest of the nineteenth.

The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 John Morley 1880

Behind them to the south-east are the waterfalls, one of which, 630 feet high, is described as the grandest cascade in Africa south of the Zambesi.

Impressions of South Africa James Bryce Bryce 1880

In time the hill became covered with public edifices, of which the grandest was the Temple of "Capitoline Jupiter."

Outline of Universal History George Park Fisher 1868