Glories

Examples

• That land, said Adrian, tinged with the last glories of the day, is Greece. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She glories in it! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• For as to secrecy, Henry is quite the hero of an old romance, and glories in his chains. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• But there has been no tradition to keep alive the glories of the Sassanids. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• How worthless to them will seem the honours and glories of the den! Plato. The Republic.
• For one of the glories of France. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• This is the real necessity that makes any return to the imagined glories of other days an idle dream. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Naturally, as they have no modern glories to talk about, they boast of ancient times and ancient heroism. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• His emotions responded to the glories of tropica l vegetation in the Brazilian forests, and to the sublimity of Patagonian wastes and the forest-cl ad hills of Tierra del Fuego. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I'll give it to you, Marmee, just to remember past glories by, for a crop is so comfortable I don't think I shall ever have a mane again. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• But he had a chivalrous nature (was not the disinterested service of woman among the ideal glories of old chivalry? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• With swelling chest he narrated the glories of his adventure and exhibited the spoils of conquest. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• But the glories of the landscape were all wasted upon my companion, who was sunk in the deepest thought. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The Parthenon of Athens, whose ruins are still a thing of beauty, was but the crown set upon the clustering glories of the Athens Pericles rebuilt. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Between us and the realities of social life we build up a mass of generalizations, abstract ideas, ancient glories, and personal wishes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• And I—am not, added Caliphronas, springing to his feet; fancy going down to a close cabin with such glories as this outside! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• With this same trough battery Davy in 1812 produced the first electric carbon light, the bright herald of later glories. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Metal Working Tools One of the Glories of 19th Century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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