🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 37

Nothing could surpass the splendour of their arms, which were embossed and enamelled, and enriched with gold and jewels and curious devices; nothing could be more gallant and glorious than their array—it was all plume and banner and silken pageantry, the gorgeous trappings for tilt and tourney and courtly revel; but the iron soul of war was wanting.

Who acts: Nothing, array, iron soul · What happens: surpass, emboss, enamell, enrich, be, want · To what, where: splendour, arms, plume

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