| The Victorians had a dream that Whitby could match the gilded splendour of Harrogate, and the thermal spring waters of Bath. |
| Former railwaymen have told me what it was like to be in the place during its splendour. |
| The bandsmen, all dressed in their serious splendour, played at a determined pace, which quickened the pulse. |
| Holidaymakers come back year after year and, amid the splendours of the Alps, they insist on bourgeois comforts and good Bavarian cooking. |
| You can enjoy a walk in the nearby Dubare forest and see many of nature's splendours, from birds to butterflies. |
| Portugal's sixteenth-century king Sebastian, ascribed messianic splendours after his death, was a total disaster in life. |
