The mountains were bigger and
grander than ever, as they stood there thinking their solemn thoughts with their heads in the drifting clouds, but the villages at their feet--when the painstaking eye could trace them up and find them--were so reduced, almost invisible, and lay so flat against the ground, that the exactest simile I can devise is to compare them to ant-deposits of granulated dirt overshadowed by the huge bulk of a cathedral.
"I couldna' say that there name," he said, pointing to one under which was written "Aquilegia," "but us calls that a columbine, an' that there one it's a snapdragon and they both grow wild in hedges, but these is garden ones an' they're bigger an'
grander. There's some big clumps o' columbine in th' garden.
They always leave off chirping when a Fairy goes by--because a Fairy's a kind of queen over them, I suppose--at all events it's a much
grander thing than a cricket--so whenever you're walking out, and the crickets suddenly leave off chirping, you may be sure that they see a Fairy.
When the sun rose, and, for awhile, cleared away the mysterious mists, Suliman's Berg with the two majestic Breasts, now only about twenty miles off, seemed to be towering right above us, and looked
grander than ever.
But she was prejudiced in Wendy's favour, and he was really the
grander character of the two.
'I think I'll go and meet her,' said Alice, for, though the flowers were interesting enough, she felt that it would be far
grander to have a talk with a real Queen.
I suppose it's bigger and
grander even than Wareham; more like Paris?
Fanny's imagination had prepared her for something
grander than a mere spacious, oblong room, fitted up for the purpose of devotion: with nothing more striking or more solemn than the profusion of mahogany, and the crimson velvet cushions appearing over the ledge of the family gallery above.
A labourer Haider Ali r/o Millat Town was working with
grander machine at a under construction home at Eden Orchard when he suffered fatal electric shock and fell unconscious.
Inquisitors don't come any
grander than silver-maned Jeremy Paxman, scourge of political correctness.
"The fact that sleep health was so strongly related to mental health is important since the majority of college students don't get the recommended amount of sleep needed for optimal health and functioning," said senior author Michael
Grander.
Riding on his successful reelection bid, City Mayor Richard Gomez said his administration would make sure that the forthcoming fiesta celebration next month would be bigger and
grander than last year's.