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Some like Rome have been rebuilt on the ruins of former grandeur.
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There are no remains of its former grandeur; its palaces are indistinguishable ruins.
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It was massive-itwas grand-andwhispered a tale of former grandeur.
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Occupied with work and study, he easily forgot his former grandeur and importance.
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All his former grandeur, even his services, were at once forgotten.
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How have we come to nothing, bereft of our former grandeur!
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Will the estate ever be restored to its former grandeur?
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Six-foot-(2-meter) wide stumps hint at its former grandeur a century or two ago.
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Simply stubs of their former grandeur, wouldn't you say?
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The demolished fish-ponds, and the old foundations, which repel the spade, declare its former grandeur.
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But many fragments of his former grandeur still remain.
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Did he restore the empire to its former grandeur?
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A splendid granite cathedral ornamented with beautiful statuary still attests to the former grandeur of the city.
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Her mouldering temples, the mournful vestiges of her former grandeur, afford a shelter to her muttering monks.
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The mounds and mouldering walls in the adjacent fields, present melancholy memorials of the former grandeur of this place.
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In northern Yucatan the Spaniards found a race of mild, decadent Mayas living among the relics of former grandeur.
