How To Use Glorious In A Sentence

  • Stars' glorious start to the season has hit a slight snag lately with a couple of draws, while their closest rival, Ballina, continues to string together victories.
  • He had never been a morning person before, but letting the beautiful sunrise pass without him absorbing its gloriousness in an area such as this seemed wasteful, from his perspective.
  • Beautiful, green, the remoteness of Exmoor counterpointed by the glorious surf of the Atlantic beaches, coast roads with views of the craggy shoreline. Archive 2009-06-01
  • Even the en suite bathroom of the bedroom she shared with Emily could be described by no other word than glorious!
  • Sterling was darting around, looking for pockets of space, but missing a glorious chance from close range. Times, Sunday Times
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  • One more toast on this great and glorious day of victory. Man of Honour
  • Sterling was darting around, looking for pockets of space, but missing a glorious chance from close range. Times, Sunday Times
  • Last week, exultant rebels in Tripoli clambered on Gaddafi's vainglorious statue of an American warplane in the grip of a mighty Libyan fist.
  • The flame was glorious - radiant with the colours of antique knighthood and the flashing gallantries of the past; but no substance fed it; flaring wildly, it tossed to and fro in the wind; it was suddenly put out.
  • The sun was nearly blinding, but it made for a gloriously bright day.
  • It's that roguish spirit that unites these tracks into a glorious whole.
  • What first seemed like a glorious but undefined adventure is starting to take practical shape - at least in our minds.
  • This was the most glorious day which I have hitherto seen. Christianity Today
  • I can still remember biting through the coconut-studded chocolate shell into the gloriously sticky, snow-white goo within.
  • Like many vainglorious self-publicists, he probably thought he could charm the acid interviewer.
  • But try proving that you were denied the certainty of a glorious, enriching career because of something terrible that happened when you were 13 years old. Times, Sunday Times
  • The glorious end came so quickly it almost took the crowd by surprise. Times, Sunday Times
  • One more toast on this great and glorious day of victory. Man of Honour
  • This nation was founded on glorious greed, boundless carpetbaggery, corrupt cartels and an oligarchy of rich men whose "countrymen" were other rich men. SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • The Duke has also opened up the rooftops, offering glorious views of church spires and domes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts: and no one to thank. Christina G. Rossetti 
  • A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure will turn to glorious success.
  • To many people, John XXIII was the Kennedy pope, and Vatican II was his Camelot a glorious, Roman Catholic version of the New Deal and the New Frontier that would move Catholicism from the medieval past into a rosy future of social equality, in which mass would be celebrated in the vernacular, nuns' habits would be modernized, and the popemobile would replace the traditional gestatorial chair as a form of papal transportation. Philocrites: May 2005 Archives
  • We all tucked in to our dishes of fish, and although the salmon tandoori was probably a touch overcooked, the red snapper was glorious.
  • It was a glorious swansong, and her enormous grin and triumphant punching of the air as she mounted the podium were deliciously infectious. Times, Sunday Times
  • “Murmurs, discontent, insurrections, rebellion, would inevitably ensue,” with a likely result that “our present glorious Union itself would be dissevered or dissolved.” A Country of Vast Designs
  • Do not cracksmen, when assembled together, entertain themselves with stories of glorious old burglaries which they or bygone heroes have committed? Roundabout Papers
  • Cross the road for an enormous show of Liverpool-born Tony Cragg's hefty colored sculptures, some of which are dotted about the glorious permanent architectural "landform" earthwork by Charles Jencks in front of the building. An Explosion of Visual Arts
  • He was vain, egotistical, boorish and gloriously insensitive.
  • Also the pleasures of the eye consist in a certain equality of colour: for light, the most glorious of all colours, is made by equal operation of the object; whereas colour is (perturbed, that is to say) unequal light, as hath been said chap. II, sect. The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
  • Ascot has royalty, Goodwood offers glorious views towards England's south coast, but, for sheer style and panache, Longchamp is peerless.
  • SAMSON AND DELILAH 1949 Lamarr ' s last really great film, made in glorious Technicolor, gave her the role she was born to play: Delilah, the Bible temptress who is the undoing of Samson. Her Face Was Her Misfortune
  • Some glorious highs are counterbalanced by a few truly grating tracks and a bunch of middle-of-the-road filler, but that's true of any compilation.
  • And so the most important of "the streamlike windings of the glorious street" was in part determined by a corrupt bargain between "a vile Whig" (as Hearne calls this hated Provost) and a complaisant mayor. The Charm of Oxford
  • He has presided over the transition of the team from one glorious generation to the next in exemplary fashion.
  • Modern improvements in the means for the diffusion of knowledge have not brought about the millennium, but they have reduced the old statecraft to a condition of inglorious futility.
  • The Bulgaria striker squandered two glorious chances either side of the interval and those misses summed up a miserable season. Times, Sunday Times
  • I've written before of an earlier generation of MPs who were unabashed propagandists for Stalin, and there is an inglorious tradition of Labour MPs who serve the propaganda interests of despotism.
  • Heidi has become quite a little "porker" ... privy to complimentary special search and rescue operations, Pop Tarts, Mocha coffee beans, as well as a free trip back to the glorious Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
  • Bittersweet is this journey to the wooden boatyards of Maine and the glorious work of ‘contemporary genius’ Joel White as he undertook what he knew would be his last wooden boat project.
  • This has been a glorious year full of impossible stories. Times, Sunday Times
  • Had there been, we would certainly have heard about them, read about the revelations of former friends, or the gossip of rancorous palace servants, and seen the pictures spread in glorious technicolour across the pages of the press. Prince William: how he has coped with a life in the spotlight
  • Gradually the call to preach ‘the glorious gospel of the blessed God, the gospel of the good news to lost sinners’, had been developing in Richard.
  • These aircraft were converted to target drones with the designation of F4B - 4A and most met an inglorious end while being fired at by Navy gunners.
  • These guys are taking all the fun out of what was once the most gloriously unpredictable of games.
  • Returning I crossed the top of the mountain and halted awhile to admire the glorious sunset afterglow.
  • Criticism was in repute and flourished; commentaries, notes, and quibbles, abounded on the glorious works of genius that had been written aforetime. Zoe: The History of Two Lives
  • It was a glorious sunny day, the sea was inviting and it was slap bang in the middle of the holiday season. The Sun
  • But, curiously, Maazel did not allow the glorious waltzes to stretch out in their languor or reach their full plangency -- instead going for relatively clipped endings and sudden dynamic changes. Donna Perlmutter: Maazel to the Podium -- Still Collecting Orchestras
  • At a gloriously air-conditioned shop halfway up the main drag, I could have happily browsed for hours, because it was so blissfully cool.
  • His rule is remembered as glorious by present-day Cham.
  • Rashford is said to have remained gloriously unaffected. Times, Sunday Times
  • As the good Spirit works that which is good in obedient souls, so this evil spirit works that which is evil in wicked men; and he now works, not only heretofore, but even since the world has been blessed with the light of the glorious gospel. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment. 
  • Although Johnston depicts Cook as a cautious and dignified man compared to his vainglorious counterpart, both men risked their reputations in their mutual quest.
  • Heavy rains could combine with high tides and runoff from the north into the Chao Phraya River, which divides the city known to the locals as Krung Thep or the 'City of Angels' in reference to the Thai kingdom's glorious past. Rainforest Portal RSS Newsfeed
  • It was a glorious swansong, and her enormous grin and triumphant punching of the air as she mounted the podium were deliciously infectious. Times, Sunday Times
  • TV would not touch him for punditry duties, fearful of what he might say, and hence there was no glorious retirement into the public life of a celebrity, of the sort which his playing career so richly deserved.
  • If you have dark skin, purple is glorious. Times, Sunday Times
  • I love London particularly for that layered feel, for its glorious haphazardness and its unique personality, which Peter Ackroyd personisifes as William Blake's Glad Day: a radiant youth with his arms outstretched against rainbow light. MIND MELD: Real-Life Places That Inspire Exceptional World Building
  • There is a glorious passage by Henry Thoreau of his encounter with a nightjar relative called a nighthawk. Country diary: Holt, Norfolk
  • The festivities included singing traditional Christmas carols and a glorious lighting display on the beach side of the shopping center.
  • And inspired once more, the great king strides forth to meet his destiny… Cue glorious sunset and skirl of bagpipes.
  • Rome was still the lawful mistress of the world: the pope and the emperor, the bishop and general, had abdicated their station by an inglorious retreat to the Rhone and the Danube; but if she could resume her virtue, the republic might again vindicate her liberty and dominion. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • In Notes on the Supreme Mandala of Glorious Kalachakra, Source of All Good Qualities (dPal dus-kyi ‘khor-lo’i dkyil-chog yon-tan kun-’byung-gi zin-bris), Buton (Bu-ston Rin-chen grub) explains that the four maras in Kalachakra have the following significance: The Four Maras (The Four Demonic Forces)
  • Let us wipe off the sweat of youth and stride forward,listening to the spring thunder throughout the journey! Outside the school gate what is greeting us is a glorious future.
  • So is this a glorious return or are the publishers flogging a dead horse? Times, Sunday Times
  • It was a glorious swansong, and her enormous grin and triumphant punching of the air as she mounted the podium were deliciously infectious. Times, Sunday Times
  • Your parents search for you in the crowd of plebes clawing up Herndon Monument in a greasy, glorious finale.
  • We are all therefore of infinite value, glorious destiny and enormous potential. Times, Sunday Times
  • Hovering between day and night, light and dark, life and death, twilight is glorious in its very imprecision.
  • The subsequent retirement of Muttiah Muralitharan, and that of Lasith Malinga from Test cricket, marks the end of a glorious era in Sri Lankan cricket. Mahela Jayawardene: 'I still get flashbacks. We're lucky to be alive'
  • But the problem is clearly institutional and not at all limited to his inglorious tenure.
  • With its bad language and schoolboy humour, Alfred Jarry's first and most influential play is the story of Mum and Dad Ubu, two gloriously evil megalomaniacs, who spur each other on to overthrow the regime.
  • The weather is glorious, English is spoken and the currency has parity with the pound. Times, Sunday Times
  • We all tucked in to our dishes of fish, and although the salmon tandoori was probably a touch overcooked, the red snapper was glorious.
  • The purple hairstreak is a glorious but relatively small butterfly strongly associated with oaks. Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
  • Just when you think you've gone the wrong way, the sea becomes visible ahead and the path opens out on to a glorious pebbled beach.
  • The lead couple, George Chakiris and Rita Moreno, heat up the screen with their glorious, sexy mambo at the gym.
  • Mr. Davidson's four pictures are from his "The Nature of Paris" series, and include "Jardin Saint Gilles Grand Veneur, 2006," with its formal rose gardens and a glorious cloudscape of the type usually seen only in Baroque paintings. Crossing Delicate Borders
  • And then the king, to give relation to him of his penance, enjoined by Leo his predecessor, to re-edify a monastery of the glorious apostle S. Peter, and sent Alfred, the archbishop of York, to The Golden Legend, vol. 6
  • Arabic's a glorious language for poetic extravagance, and we made the most of it. IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
  • All this business gloriously kept my attention occupied while my insides tried ever so arduously to deal with the trauma of it all. Sally Fay: Dealing With The Rough Ride Of Divorce
  • Though far remote from the ivy chaplet on Wisdom's glorious brow, yet his stump of withered birch inculcates a lesson of virtue, by reminding us, that we should take heed to our steps in our journeyings through the wilderness of life; and, so far as in him lies, he helps us to do so, and by the exercise of a very catholic faith, looks for his reward to the value he supposes us to entertain for that virtue which, from time immemorial, has been in popular parlance classed as next to godliness. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852
  • shaper," whose duty it was to shape a glorious deed into more glorious verse. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived
  • Our country has a glorious past.
  • Still the present silent ruins speak of their rich glorious past which we are all proud of.
  • His promise to the commissioner of more to come is not just a journalist's vainglorious bluster.
  • Lundberg noted the "slavocracy was not terminated .... for moral reasons; it committed suicide for political and economic reasons, blinded by simple greed and vaingloriousness, and long after slavery was abolished in most places elsewhere. Reviewing Ferdinand Lundberg's "Cracks in the Constitution"
  • Farther round you look across a valley to a hillside full of glorious autumn colour. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's time we rediscovered our national pride and contributed something halfway decent to this gloriously tacky enterprise. Times, Sunday Times
  • I'm proud of Iran for it's glorious history (Persian Empire).
  • And in the duets, Rutter and Gavin were glorious; faced with such wonderful vocalism we could not help but be carried away and forget the work's rather dodgy dramaturgy.
  • This event was hailed as a glorious triumph, in which all of mankind was united in celebration.
  • The lunch mural, for want of a better title, strikes an altogether different chord — that of an evacuated spring-blossomy babbling-brook alpine hinterland glorious people-scape, in which the principal technical challenge for the artist was to crank up the volume of the foliage and the foreground blossoms, whilst reining in the waters, because for obvious reasons the plash and gurgle of cataracts can be counterproductive at lunchtime. The Mural II
  • They had been talking about going home and making scrambled eggs - which would be quite a comedown from last night's glorious dinner.
  • To queue is glorious," reads a new catchphrase festooned across Beijing as part of the government's frantic push to improve social etiquette for the Olympics. Archive 2008-08-10
  • A memorial to men who lost their lives in the Boer War a century ago was rededicated in glorious sunshine in York.
  • For one eerily glorious moment in time, the whole entire world seemed to be completely silent.
  • And some miserable being, to secure the great object of his ambition, has frontlessly presented it as a sure and glorious passport to success over the head of a rival, who was so unfortunate The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. II
  • It is glorious weather, the waterway full of small boats, some being rowed, some under sail, when suddenly there is the sound of shouting as the peaceful afternoon is shattered.
  • But at the other end of Britain northerners flocked to beaches to bask in hours of glorious sunshine. The Sun
  • They dined in a special suite in glorious splendor.
  • When she gallantly removes her cap, her glabrous head radiates a glorious halo.
  • The poor boyfriend seems to have disappeared, but the wine was so glorious that her future was sealed. Times, Sunday Times
  • No. This place exists: it is called St. Thomas, and it is where we Hell Week survivors were sent for ten glorious weeks of training. f We actually did train. Rogue Warrior
  • Blue skies speckled with tiny fleeces of cloud made it a glorious afternoon in Knock.
  • Keats sang briefly but gloriously.
  • They can get a bit fed up with the focus on its glorious industrial past. Times, Sunday Times
  • Each day of this breathtaking summer it seemed like one glorious performance was overtaken by another. The Sun
  • When we reached the crest and looked backwards, a glorious view was presented. A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
  • For power to show itself in weakness, for glory to appear in baseness, for divinity to kythe (228) in humanity, and such glorious rays to break forth from under such a dark cloud, this was greater glory, and more majesty, than if he had only showed himself in the perfection of the creatures. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
  • Beautiful film with glorious songs. The Sun
  • What Ronnie is sure about is that he's not going to spend this glorious September Saturday afternoon on a trip to "nervy" Aunt Edna's house. Ronnie's War by Bernard Ashley
  • Let us wipe off the sweat of youth and stride forward,listening to the spring thunder throughout the journey! Outside the school gate what is greeting us is a glorious future.
  • The Bulgaria striker squandered two glorious chances either side of the interval and those misses summed up a miserable season. Times, Sunday Times
  • But even he has withdrawn to the shade of a canopy draped above a couple of threadbare sofas and that glorious moment now seems an age away.
  • But the most glorious revolution of the century has been the flowering of British food. Times, Sunday Times
  • “I am a vixen, a female fox,” she had replied with a quiver of her nostrils, and Claudia had immediately recognized that a vixen was a very grand and glorious thing to be. The Night Of the Solstice
  • Fortune was not overkind, but his 'virtues and pious intentions may be read ... shining too gloriously to be dusked by misfortune.' Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
  • He cut a glorious calomel pill out of pipeclay, and then we concocted a black-draught of salts and bottled stout, with a little patent boot-polish. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 25, 1841
  • The greater the struggle, the more glorious the triumph.
  • A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure will turn to glorious success.
  • Yesterday was the Glorious Twelfth, traditionally the day when a certain class of country sportsman took to the Scottish hills for the first day of the grouse-shooting season.
  • Bait time in dockland meant fifteen glorious minutes of rest.
  • Deep-down, if appearance didn't matter, if fat really was fab, wouldn't we all wallow around in a glorious ocean of crisps and cakes and fry-ups and fancies?
  • Yvon's Paris" offers dozens of glorious photographs, many filling two pages -- flat paper magically alive with moments stolen from time: flower sellers, bargemen, weary blinkered horses, a boating party in the Bois de Boulogne. Graham Robb's "Parisians" and Yvon's Paris, photos of Pierre Yves Petit
  • The actors are uglier, and they swear more, but I still maintain that the Milch-speak of NYPD was more creative, and the 11-year redemption of Andy Sipowicz is a glorious affirmation of hope and positivity which is actually more “realistic” than the acceptance of despair in The Wire, The Shield, and other “gritty, realistic” TV dramas. Mentalist « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
  • So the kings said that they would give him all things soever that he desired, and therewith was a great army got ready, and all things wrought in the most heedful wise, ships and all war-gear, so that his journey might be of the stateliest: but Sigurd himself steered the dragon-keel which was the greatest and noblest; richly wrought were their sails, and glorious to look on. The Story of the Volsungs
  • Because the blocks themselves are so glorious the signatures are almost insignificant, until that is, one begins to look at the history or provenance of the quilt.
  • Such, sir, are you by general confession; such are the things achieved by you, the greatest and most glorious of our countrymen, the director of our public councils, the leader of unconquered armies, the father of your country; for by that title doss every good man hail you with sincere and voluntary praise. Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley
  • As I have already said, we had from the beginning felt called especially for itinerating work, the work of looking out new fields and preparing the way for other laborers, the work of preparing the soil in uncultivated regions, that by twos and threes, and in greater numbers when God's time arrived, the sowers of the Word might come to dark Tibet to scatter the seed unto a glorious harvest. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
  • Let us wipe off the sweat of youth and stride forward,listening to the spring thunder throughout the journey! Outside the school gate what is greeting us is a glorious future.
  • This was a nightmare end to a glorious career. The Sun
  • But the international hotel marques - luxury or otherwise - have left this outpost gloriously alone. Times, Sunday Times
  • The restoration of the handsome houses surrounding the square in the years since Samuel's dire prognostication is a heartening instance of a glorious architectural and sociological renaissance.
  • It is well reputed for its fine teaching but the pinnacle of its fame is its glorious chapel with its murals of intricate artwork.
  • While the title character holds up a big VHS tape, you can grin slyly, knowing that you're watching this film on glorious DVD.
  • Should we suppose him a natural necessary eradication from the Father's glory or glorious essence, or substance, he must be the only-begotten: and then it will be a mystery and miracle of divine love that such a Son should be sent into our world for us! Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • And rarely does instrumental rock music have such an emotional effect on the listener as these glorious meteor showers of noise. The Sun
  • Even the executioner, once an inglorious and shadowy person, became just a regular state employee.
  • And it's a gloriously funny and warm-hearted programme. Times, Sunday Times
  • The glorious thing about shooting for the epicenter is the room for error. The Killing Zone
  • In her youth Queen Victoria listened with rapture to the impressive and glorious music of the great oratorios rendered in the Minster.
  • He was succeeded in his inheritance by his eldest son Hugh II. whose younger brother William, being sent by Achaius King of Scotland, pur - suant to his league with Charlemaign, with 4000 choice men into Italy against the Lombards, he performed many glorious actions, and became the root of the family of Scoti at Placentia. Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical
  • Delaware is a glorious river; but the Sculkill, being an hundred miles boatable above the falls, and its course north-east toward the fountain of Susquehannah, (that tends to the heart of the province, and both sides our own), it is like to be a great part of the settlement of this age. Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562—1733
  • If you have dark skin, purple is glorious. Times, Sunday Times
  • Art lovers view Mexican artist Diego Rivera's "Glorious Victory, " on display at Mexico City's Palacio de Bellas Artes.
  • The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment. 
  • He would have to take it deep into the bowels of the earth, for the glorious Garland Battle was about to begin.
  • We are all therefore of infinite value, glorious destiny and enormous potential. Times, Sunday Times
  • The male, beautifully patterned in buttercup-yellow and jet black, may first reveal his presence by glorious fluting.
  • And what could be more wonderful at this time of year than the glorious sweet waft of baking coming from the kitchen?
  • They were having a glorious time and their gay voices and gayer laughter echoed up and down the valley, dying away in elfin cadences among the trees. Rainbow Valley
  • When we reached the crest and looked backwards, a glorious view was presented. A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
  • There are always men like him, eager vaingloriously to display their would-be-insuperable power.
  • The award of the Nobel Prize has crowned a glorious career in physics.
  • But then compare that with really any of the long scenes from Inglorious and it's no contest .. hoth base you just contridicted yourself stupid, you said that movies with karate are boring, then you said its fun to watch movies with karate. who the hell says karate anymore? Badass Japanese Movie Trailer for The Last Airbender | /Film
  • He is able to overcome the greatest obstacles in order to advance the glorious kingdom of his Son.
  • The larger carrier painted a picture of its glorious future as a stand-alone airline once it emerged from bankruptcy. Times, Sunday Times
  • The pastry was light and pliable, the nuts were freshly roasted and crushed, hence gloriously free from the rancity that comes with age and they had a lovely homemade butteriness and just enough syrup to moisten.
  • His 49 took 71 balls with only three boundaries after a glorious cover drive to the first ball he faced.
  • The glorious uncertainties of the city bus services afford ample time for reflection and retrospection for commuters at the bus stops, it is averred.
  • But for the buffalo, the year-round, knee-deep mud is simply glorious.
  • In the city of glorious ostent and vanity, he had come to look for humility and peace. Where the Blue Begins
  • Yet four years ago they were accused of being underprepared before an inglorious campaign. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was hardly the most glorious end for a man who had cheated death so many times in so many of the world's wilder places.
  • Yet the old instinct which has made the name of Englishman glorious in the past was there, in the audience before him, and there was "immense cheering," relieved by some slight colubrine demonstrations. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
  • It may be vailed threat to the glorious project of Eretz Israel. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • Or the Siciliano, its glorious crust brushed with tomato paste seasoned with anchovy and olives and adorned with dollops of tangy sweet-and-sour caponata and cumin-scented ricotta?
  • As in, if the flesh comes clean from the bone, our wider future may be glorious. Times, Sunday Times
  • County missed a glorious chance when defensive panic from a free-kick caused Gavin to nod the ball over the advancing Henderson.
  • Never on God's sweet earth has there been a more glorious union of manipulated kiddie-singing samples, frenetic bhangra pluckings, and classic crunk growl.
  • Just plunge a few among your shorter ornamental grasses - such as pennisetum 'Piglet' or 'Hameln' - and you'll be amazed each August at the glorious flowers. My Plant Safari Photos (at Sugar Creek) « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
  • And then there's food - glorious food - tables groaning with breads, pies, fruitcakes and dainty sweets wrapped with red and green ribbon.
  • A Cook's Tour, Bourdain travels the world sampling local cuisines such as fugu, the poisonous blowfish delicacy prepared only by specially licensed Japanese chefs, or haggis, that Scottish dish made from various sheep parts and oatmeal, which he describes as "glorious ... peppery, hot and meaty. The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.com Stories
  • For long stretches of their inglorious history, they have not had cause to come often. Times, Sunday Times
  • If you have dark skin, purple is glorious. Times, Sunday Times
  • That glorious victory of his here last year must seem like a distant memory now. Times, Sunday Times
  • And rarely does instrumental rock music have such an emotional effect on the listener as these glorious meteor showers of noise. The Sun
  • It was a glorious morning, the impartial sun shining over everything with a kind of benison.
  • That, though the occupations named are entirely normal to all well-ordered states, descendants of persons in those occupations tend to become "subnormal" -- so runs the cant of it -- something handicapped by that haphazard bullet of a lifetime since, fired to advance the glorious cause of -- foreign commerce, or the like. Copper Streak Trail
  • One day, we had glorious sunshine and the velvet hills blazed with purple heather. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now we either spend the day in glorious, peaceful isolation or with like-minded friends. Times, Sunday Times
  • But nobody thinks of the glorious platefuls of fresh vegetables and steaming dishes of frumenty.
  • That would be a glorious wallow in nostalgia. The Sun
  • The coldest-blooded amongst us, Mr. Massingham of _The Nation_ for example, must confess that it was a moment rich in the emotion which bestows immortality on incident when this son of a village schoolmaster, who grew up in a shoemaker's shop, and whose boyish games were played in the street of a Welsh hamlet remote from all the refinements of civilization and all the clangours of industrialism, announced to a breathless Europe without any pomposity of phrase and with but a brief and contemptuous gesture of dismissal the passing away from the world's stage of the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns -- those ancient, long glorious, and most puissant houses whose history for an æon was the history of The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster
  • But theirs had been a vital contribution to the glorious victory. A Model Victory
  • The company enjoyed a glorious heyday in the 1980s when the company sold more than 120,000 instruments. Times, Sunday Times
  • The sightliest part is the vegetation, glorious ceibas (bombax) used for dug-outs; baobabs, tamarinds which supply cooling fruit and distilled waters; limes and bitter oranges. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
  • Constitutional monarchy began after the Glorious Revolution in 1688.
  • It has 288 acres of magnificent plants and glorious trees, plus hothouses, laboratories, and four museums.
  • In a city teeming with traffic and tourists, it is a glorious oasis of calm.
  • There was to be no glorious comeback, though, as the title favourite kept her hopes of a fourth US Open title very much alive. WalesOnline - Home
  • The City of Truro will arrive under its own power, while locomotive 50033, Glorious a diesel-electric will arrive as a permanent exhibit at the museum.
  • From here we observed the mime artists performing in the glorious fountained gardens.
  • The evening was a lavish affair with glorious food and an endless supply of champagne.
  • Thus, with each page, she becomes increasingly unattractive and vainglorious - brains and spirit corrupted by driving ambition.
  • For today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directive.
  • One second it was gloriously sunny, the next a thick blanket of snow descended. The Sun

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