Use glory in a sentence
Sentences starting with glory
- Glory be to goodness, we're shut of them! [5]
- Glory and uniform became him well, but danger and deprivation better. [9]
- Glory was sufficient. [5]
- Glory to Dionysus! [10]
Sentences ending with glory
- And yet and yet she feared it even in that instant of glory. [9]
- But, as I was saying, phosphorus fires this train of associations in an instant; its luminous vapors with their penetrating odor throw me into a trance; it comes to me in a double sense "trailing clouds of glory. [6]
- Mrs. Clymer Ketchum was in her glory. [6]
- Youth to her was a warmth, a glory. [11]
- No pilot ever ventured to a ship on such rough seas as Gaspard ventured for small profit or glory. [11]
- It is the torch which is to light the world and the ages with her glory. [5]
- When I went to Wilmot House to dine, the table would be always full, and Mr. Marmaduke simpering at the head of it, his air of importance doubled by his reflected glory. [9]
- You give names to things--bishops, elders, ministers, Mormonism, duty, faith, glory. [13]
- He has come to Kentucky to show her the way to prosperity and glory. [9]
- He was wedded to glory. [4]
Short sentences using glory
- He would live for glory. [5]
Sentences containing glory two or more times
- For the glory of generals fades beside his glory. [9]
- But the name he won that day as a marvellous military genius filled the world with his glory, and that glory will never fade while history books last. [5]
- What are the glory that was Greece, the grandeur that was Rome, compared to the glory and grandeur and majesty of a perfected morality such as you see before you? [5]
- It was a deep and satisfying pleasure to see the sun create the new morning, and gradually, patiently, lovingly, clothe it on with splendor after splendor, and glory after glory, till the miracle was complete. [5]
More example sentences with the word glory in them
- A few years yonder in the desert--power, glory, wealth won for Egypt, the strength of thine arms known, the piety of thy spirit proven, thy name upon every tongue--on thy return, who then should fear for Egypt! [11]
- How feverishly she worked, unknown to him, he never guessed; so carefully and unobtrusively planted her suggestions that they were born again in glory as his inspiration. [9]
- The piece of work was only half unrolled, but Orion at once saw the spot whence its crowning glory was now missing--the large emerald which, as he alone could know, was on its way to Constantinople. [10]
- It was a wonderful piece of luck, a splendid piece of luck; the glory of it made him dizzy. [5]
- Radiant is he, with his great splendour stored, Thy glory, Lord, confessing. [10]
- A ship wreathed with flowers was sent to fetch the honored old man, and at the head of the deputation was his own brave, strong son, now crowned with glory and fame. [10]
- If wounded, I will be your nurse; will never stir from your side if you are ill, and when I see you happy will retire, and feast my eyes from afar on your glory and happiness. [10]
- Killed in battle, where the best of Russian men and Russia's glory were led to destruction. [2]
- Especially when the western sunshine streamed down over it all, turning even the dust of the atmosphere into gold and emblazoning the windows of the Tuileries with a sort of historic glory, his heart must have swelled within him in throbs of imperial exaltation. [4]
- Of course we went to see the venerable relic of the ancient glory of Venice, with its pavements worn and broken by the passing feet of a thousand years of plebeians and patricians--The Cathedral of St. Mark. [5]
- And as they went the earth seemed suddenly to blossom anew, the glory of the Scarlet Hills burst upon them, and they could hear bugles calling far off and see giant figures trooping along the hills, all scarlet too, with streaming hair. [11]
- In this manner was the great tragedy and glory of the world made to the people a present thing, transforming them to the body of the Life that hath neither spot nor blemish nor . [11]
- Ah, the morning was silver with glory As I lay by my tent on the shore; And the soft air was drunken with odours, And my soul lifted up to adore. [11]
- All this, however, was felt to add to the glory of the republic, and it all increased the importance of Henderson. [4]
- But its glory was departed, its day was done, it was a place of dreams and memories: the Queen came here no more. [11]
- If Captain Jones was ambitious of personal glory, he may never, at least, be accused of mercenary motives. [9]
- Here, before her, was a nobler display, and yet her lively imagination which often, sometimes indeed against her will, gave shape to her formless thoughts--called up the image of the beautiful youth surrounded by the glowing glory which still painted the horizon. [10]
- The old captain was a flaming son of Mars, whose nose militia, war, general training, and New England rum had painted with the color of glory and disaster. [4]
- I think she wants it now to increase and establish and perpetuate her power and glory with, not to add to her comforts and luxuries, not to furnish paint and fuss and feathers for vain display. [5]
- The sun came up in a glory of carmine, and the trees were brilliant in their varied shades of green. [5]
- His was the type of face which is the glory of the steel engraving,--square and solid, as a corner-stone should be. [9]
- The glory, the true democracy of this nation, lies in its equal opportunity for all. [9]
- But Mr. Carvel's town house in Annapolis stands to-day, with its neighbours, a mournful relic of a glory that is past. [9]
- As we crept toward the shore, in the thick darkness, a blinding glory of white electric light burst suddenly from our forecastle, and lit up the water and the warehouses as with a noon-day glare. [5]
- The wondering shepherds told their breathless tale Of the bright choir that woke the sleeping vale; Told how the skies with sudden glory flamed; Told how the shining multitude proclaimed "Joy, joy to earth! [6]
- They walked out together to the summer-house, and stood watching the glory of the light on the western hills. [9]
- To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of Washington is alike impossible. [7]
- Though she longed to have Philip win glory in some great battle, yet her first natural thought was of danger to the man she loved--and the chance too of his not coming back to her from Portsmouth. [11]
- Let others ride to glory, I'll shoe their horses for the gallop. [11]
- There's small glory to be got in facing him down, I should say. [5]
- The counsel of Thy lips shall guide my way; I have obeyed whenever Thou hast ruled; I call on Thee--and, with my fame, Thy glory Shall fill the world, from farthest east to west. [10]
- The way lay through a parched tract of rocky desert, and the further they went the more intense was that wonderful flush in the west, till day broke behind the travellers and the glory of the sunrise quenched the vividness of its glow. [10]
- He knew that this tale redounded to the glory of our arms and so one had to pretend not to doubt it. [2]
- We literary fellows think that arm of the service gets too much of the glory nowadays. [8]
- As a rule they seem drunk with health, and with the surprise of it, the wonder of it, the unspeakable glory and splendour of it, after a long sober spell spent in inventing imaginary diseases and concreting them with doctor-stuff. [5]
- As a rule they seem drunk with health, and with the surprise of it, the wonder of it, the unspeakable glory and splendor of it, after a long, sober spell spent in inventing imaginary diseases and concreting them with doctor-stuff. [5]
- And finally, when they got out their pipes and went serenely puffing around, the very summit of glory was reached. [5]
- No pomp was there, no glory shone around On the coarse straw that strewed the reeking ground; One dim retreat a flickering torch betrayed, In that poor cell the Lord of Life was laid! [6]
- First of all, there was one grand street which was its chief glory. [6]
- You fancy that there may be in heaven a place of glory for such as have never been overcome, and you would fain have seen Hermas among them. [10]
- The Livingstons were there in all their glory. [4]
- To one of them, I know, the colored landscape, the dreamy atmosphere, the unique glory that comes in October days, were only ecstatic suggestions of the life that opened before her. [4]
- He had raised them and cast them down, even as He was casting me, that I might come to know the glory of His holy name. [9]
- Their central idea, their grand aim, is to subjugate you, keep you down, make you feel insignificant and humble in the blaze of their cosmopolitan glory! [5]
- Before the onset, the young Lysander raised his hands imploringly to the gods, crying: 'For my father, my honor, and the glory of Sparta! [10]
- I offered Thee the world to swell Thy glory, And thirty thousand mighty steers have shed Their smoking blood on fragrant cedar piles. [10]
- He has lost the woman he really loved; his dearest friend is gone; and now you want to disparage the last thing in this world that he still cares for,--his military glory. [10]
- Al'mah turned towards the window with a shining face, and waved a kiss out of the light and glory where she was, to the sufferer in the darkness. [11]
- Men went from the west to the east killing their fellow men, and the event was accompanied by phrases about the glory of France, the baseness of England, and so on. [2]
- The glory of the sunny, tropical world was upon the ship and upon the sea; it crept into the blood of every man, and the sweet summer weather gave confidence to their minds. [11]
- She was like the sun; on whatsoever dim and humble object her rays fell, that thing was straightway drowned in glory. [5]
- What wonder that the sordid lights of work-day prudence should pale before the glory of a hope like theirs in the full splendor of its fruition? [5]
- Above and beyond the sacrifice of a woman's life, the joy of possessing her soul and affection, is something more desirable still--fame and glory--personal fame and glory, The woman may share them, of course, and be content with the radiance. [9]
- The last of the sacred Nineteen had fallen a prey to the fiendish sack; the town was stripped of the last rag of its ancient glory. [5]
- It is when the right words are conspicuous that they thunder: The glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome! [5]
- The glory of the place stirred his blood. [9]
- The tombs of the Pharaohs extending into the very heart of the rocky hills, and the grand temples that stood to the west of the city of the dead, shorn though they were of their ancient glory, filled the Emperor with admiration. [10]
- He had withheld the news of the victory that he might announce it when it would most turn to his own glory. [11]
- He thought her the most beautiful thing he had ever seen, but he had never regarded her save as a creation for the perfect pleasure of the eye; he thought her the concrete glory of sensuous purity, no more capable of sentiment than himself. [11]
- If now, in the glory of thy magnificence, I know bliss unutterable, I owe it to that woman, and to the fact that she was good enough to throw the nuts into Hannele's apron. [10]
- The heavens declare the glory of the Oriental astronomers, as Algorab and Aldebaran repeat their Arabic names to the students of the starry firmament. [6]
- Fading fast was the glory of that bright new district on top of the second hill from the river where Uncle Tom was a pioneer. [9]
- George Jones had the glory of perpetrating the first joke on him; he gave him a cigar with a firecracker in it and winked to the crowd to come; the thing exploded presently and swept away the bulk of Nicodemus's eyebrows and eyelashes. [5]
- Real, genuine glory, the fairest of wives, and a proud crown--or defeat and ruin. [10]
- For Thou art the defense, the succor, and the victory of them that put their trust in Thee, and to Thee be all glory, to Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, now and forever, world without end. [2]
- The castle on the cliff stood in proud glory gilded by the rays of the declining sun. [14]
- Many thousands of the citizens of Nisaea were within reach of his voice, as he cried aloud: "Ye all know that the kings who have, up to the present time, loaded you with honor and glory, belonged to the house of the Achaemenidae. [10]
- The glory of the Bridge House suddenly declined. [11]
- Did they feel the animal underneath it yet, giving it beauty, life, glory? [11]
- I never forget that, for it seemed to me even then that, whatever glory there was for British arms ahead, there was tragedy for him. [11]
- It is possible that Tom's mental stomach had never really hungered for one of those prizes, but unquestionably his entire being had for many a day longed for the glory and the eclat that came with it. [5]
- And they say that that little woman she has for a father imagines a union with the duke will redound to his glory. [9]
- Manifestly a glory that once was had dissolved and vanished away in these twenty-one years. [5]
- Alas poor house that is robbed of its past, of its glory, and of its patron deities! [10]
- They've a notion, that in glory, when we wicked ones have chains They will all be major-generals--and that! [11]
- She had to tear herself away and go and hide, this glory was so trying to her diffidence. [5]
- Then, Kit's gentleman takes him in hand, but can make nothing of him; and after a great many very long questions and very short answers, Mr Sampson Brass goes down in glory. [12]
- The Virgin is surrounded by angels, and has a glory round her head, which shows that homage is being paid to her. [4]
- The old dull sun must set, to rise again with greater glory. [10]
- The twins had suddenly become popular idols along with Pudd'nhead Wilson, and haloed with a glory as intense as his. [5]
- Venters felt the sublimity of that marvelous vaulted arch, and it seemed to gleam with a glory of something that was gone. [13]
- Was not their strange radiance an emanation from the eternal glory that she sought? [10]
- He felt the star of De Carteret declining and Rozel's glory ascending like a comet. [11]
- I would like--yes, sometimes I would like to sweep to a watery grave one of the towns that are a glory to this island, as Savanna la Mar was swept to oblivion in the year 1780 by a hurricane. [11]
- Apostles and martyrs soared around, the Saviour sat enthroned in glory and triumph, while angels, cradled on the clouds that were his footstool, were singing beatific hymns which sounded clearly in her ear above the many-voiced tumult of the quays. [10]
- You say not so In words, but when you placed your hands in mine; But when I saw the same old glory shine Within your eyes, I read it; and I know. [11]
- That you people's small performances might appear the better and win you the more glory, I hid my own deeds through all the march. [5]
- It ain't no sin, glory to goodness it ain't no sin! [5]
- Thereupon Connor laid siege to the white-toothed, wild- bearded Sikh with words which suddenly came to renown, and left not a shred of glory to the garment of vanity the hillman wore. [11]
- Shon was a short distance below, with his hand over his eyes, sweeping the semi-circle of glory. [11]
- Her respect, her serious wonder, are all then making for his glory. [11]
- Unless you had seen her then, you had never known the woman in her glory. [9]
- August was the season of glory for the neighbourhood of Haworth. [14]
- And so I saw the chastened glory of her face no more, nor evermore beheld her perfectness. [11]
- It is a round, solid, splendid glory of gold, that is blinding to look at. [5]
- It took the romance all out of the campaign, and turned our dreams of glory into a repulsive nightmare. [5]
- I could not resist the sight of the grandeur and glory with which he has covered France. [2]
- For two hours rank and wealth, and obscurity and poverty clatter along side by side in the wild procession, and then go home serene, happy, covered with glory! [5]
- The Democrats nominated Pudd'nhead Wilson for mayor, and he was left alone in this glory, for the Whigs had no man who was willing to enter the lists against such a formidable opponent. [5]
- He was the pride, the monumental glory of the city of Alexander; the centre of foundations and schools which benefited thousands. [10]
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