How To Use Gloriously In A Sentence
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The sun was nearly blinding, but it made for a gloriously bright day.
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I can still remember biting through the coconut-studded chocolate shell into the gloriously sticky, snow-white goo within.
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He was vain, egotistical, boorish and gloriously insensitive.
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These guys are taking all the fun out of what was once the most gloriously unpredictable of games.
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At a gloriously air-conditioned shop halfway up the main drag, I could have happily browsed for hours, because it was so blissfully cool.
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Rashford is said to have remained gloriously unaffected.
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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.
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All this business gloriously kept my attention occupied while my insides tried ever so arduously to deal with the trauma of it all.
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It's time we rediscovered our national pride and contributed something halfway decent to this gloriously tacky enterprise.
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Keats sang briefly but gloriously.
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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
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But the international hotel marques - luxury or otherwise - have left this outpost gloriously alone.
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And it's a gloriously funny and warm-hearted programme.
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There are always men like him, eager vaingloriously to display their would-be-insuperable power.
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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.
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One second it was gloriously sunny, the next a thick blanket of snow descended.
The Sun
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Each week another dire e-commerce venture sinks vaingloriously beneath the mire.
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It suggests a gloriously trashy piece of pulp exploitation, but the reality is not quite so lurid.
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As one of the leading open meetings in the region, their youngsters missed out on a high quality competition in gloriously warm weather, despite the contrary wind in the home straight.
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Resplendent in his uniform and medals, [Forest] Whitaker's Amin is a gloriously mad and grandiloquent figure, conceived by screenwriters Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock as a Day-Glo Shakespearean monster, with audacious hints of Othello and even Titus Andronicus, a monster for whom they have written boldly extended dialogue scenes of unabashed intelligence and theatricality," writes the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw.
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The rooms are gloriously furnished in beige and white, with gigantic, extremely comfortable beds.
Queretaro: cultural mecca with colonial charm
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Gloriously defeated at the age of twenty-three, she committed suicide rather than suffer the shame of surrender.
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Before Jacob went to sea and was miscalled Yawcob by sailormen, he dwelt in dark woods, capered up jungle trees, and swayed vaingloriously from jungle boughs.
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If financial gain and civic betterment are mutually exclusive, the shrinking capital worth of a diminished investment must be gloriously virtuous indeed.
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If they are at room temperature rather than chilled; if they are unbruised, sweet and juicy; if they are promiscuously, gloriously bright; and if they are abundant, there is little else you need for a moment of pure summer joy.
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So too was a chunky lamb chump chop with flageolet beans, skins still intact, but gloriously floury within, all mixed up with creamy goats' cheese and surrounded by rich brown rosemary gravy.
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As he passed the mirror he saw that he was covered with royal ermine, and that his head wore a wonderful crown of gold, set with none but red stones: rubies and carbuncles and garnets, and others whose names he could not tell, glowed gloriously around his head, like the salamandrine essence of all the Christmas fires over the world.
Cross Purposes and The Shadows
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Along the roadside were trees flowering gloriously, chiefly the magnificent African Tulip, with its spectacular orangey-red flowers.
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So I opened the ambry, and within it was even more gloriously wrought than without; and there was nought therein, save
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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Is it to banish the air of predictability that Blackpool so gloriously challenged last season, only to be returned from whence they came?
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Thus the recent run of Irish victories ended and last year's desperately disappointing draw gloriously revenged.
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`It's the milk of human kindness,' he explained, a trifle vaingloriously.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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Rashford is said to have remained gloriously unaffected.
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She took on not only the might of the oceans, but also the might of reality, and has triumphed gloriously over both.
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‘So Richard, the trouper that he is, hit the stage to a rapturous applause of appreciation, gave a marvellous opening speech and saved the day gloriously,’ said Mr Simpson.
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Furthermore, "these [fragments] were destined to a noble lot ... to light another land, the quenchless ray that soon shall gloriously expand
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The structures of life, from DNA helices to Austrian physicists, are wonderfully, gloriously improbable.
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It was a dim foregleam of the great sun of social life and science, that will yet rise and shine gloriously on our earth.
Brook Farm
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So, the herald was a decided failure, and the crowd hooted with great energy, as he pranced ingloriously away.
Sketches by Boz
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Watson's orotund voice is complemented by swooning strings, lush orchestration and gloriously cheery tempi, conjuring the Med, lemon trees and a large dollop of la dolce vita straight into your living room.
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One second it was gloriously sunny, the next a thick blanket of snow descended.
The Sun
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The city was gloriously clean, its classical columns and pediments and its baroque scrolls and volutes now clearly delineated by the shadows cast by an oblique sun on their pale surfaces.
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At least we have the consolation of knowing that it will be possible for any of us at any given time to get on a bus, a boat or a plane, hop over to London, get gloriously blotto and sleep on his couch.
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At least I shall end my diplomatical career gloriously, as you will see by what the King of Naples writes from this ship to his Minister in London, owing the recovery of his kingdom to the
A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878
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We've had gloriously sunny weather.
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But it's refreshing to see that right now LA has a gloriously expansive new magazine whose existence has nothing to do with distant ownership, multinucleated management, dotted-line org-charts, focus groups, sticky eyeballs or five-year budget projections.
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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
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The captain's pride for his gloriously immense ship was evident as his deep, brown eyes observed the tall, ornate masts and large white sails.
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Yet the autonomous individual, gloriously independent in his decisionmaking, can easily seem to be a fantasy.
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It was gloriously hot, and I was munted.
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In the two previous years they were gloriously and unbeatably super.
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If the city only thinks of its own image, it is actually behaving vaingloriously.
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He had known happiness, too, in Harlem, joy that glowed gloriously upon him like the high-noon sunlight of his tropic island home.
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There was always something gloriously unpredictable about the third in line to the throne's first big overseas tour.
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I was still feeling fearfully sick and giddy, and my right ear seemed to have gone deaf with the cannonading, but as I leaned against the pole, shuddering, one thought kept crowding gloriously into my mind: I was alive, and in one piece.
The Sky Writer
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The substantial plate of rabbit was beautifully tender and came with the sort of gloriously rich sauce that you can feel furring up your arteries as you eat.
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So that if there had been any kind of virtu in Venice and in their institutions, they could easily have reorganized and shown a new face to their fortune, and would have been in time either to have won or lost more gloriously, or to have obtained a more honorable accord.
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where others had failed he had gloriously succeeded
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We immediately took to the word because "glissade," said with just a hint of indeterminate European accent, sounded more respectable than "sliding on our backsides down the face of a snowy mountainside with our snowshoes splayed out in front of us and our poles dragging ingloriously behind.
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She seems determined to make the even the most unremarkable foods sound gloriously decadent and sensuous.
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As he passed the mirror, he saw that he was covered with royal ermine, and that his head wore a wonderful crown -- of gold set with none but red stones: rubies and carbuncles and garnets, and others whose names he could not tell, glowed gloriously around his head, like the salamandrine essence of all the Christmas fires over the world.
Adela Cathcart, Volume 2
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The Hounds of the Morrigan draws heavily on Irish mythology - not just the three-personned war goddess of the title, but Cuchulainn the Hound of Ulster, thinly disguised as a skinny Old Angler; the gods Angus Og and Bridget as the gloriously eccentric tinkers Boodie and Patsy; and the warrior queen Maeve, wandering under a black storm-cloud engendered by her own sorrow, and followed by a retinue of ducks and geese delightedly bathing themselves in her perpetual rain.
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He had a broad frame, which in his prime must have been gloriously muscular and strong.
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He was vain, egotistical, boorish and gloriously insensitive.
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His "coming out party" has been gloriously trumpeted globally while locally he won't even supply one "iota" of proof to let us home folks know where he was really born.
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If fighting worsens, the troops might be reinforced, or ingloriously withdrawn.
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Carr's script is gloriously silly and the cast of five have as much fun as the audience - I particularly liked the Greek chorus that offers Quinn in all her incarnations, including that of bunny girl.
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Yesterday I got up gloriously late, lounged about in the garden refusing to talk much while I read in the sun and planned some garden tidying.
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But the town of St. Lo is ever gloriously lighted, for us, with a nimbus of young heads, such as encircled the earlier madonnas.
In and out of Three Normady Inns
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For a woman at the turn of the century, she was gloriously free and independent.
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The show has been gloriously successful.
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For a change, it was a gloriously sunny day.
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This is a precious text, its publishers and authors are saying, that gloriously defies vulgar commercial logic.
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Every year on Robbie Burns Night, 25 January, the clans gather to pay homage to both the carousing poet and the humble haggis and to get gloriously shikkered on Glenfiddich whisky.
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His gloriously honeyed voice is a warm, agile instrument, suffused with sadness and joy, strength and fragility in equal measure.
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She owns the Borgo Storico Segheti Panichi, a gloriously imposing stately pile near Ascoli Piceno.
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But are they really any more vaingloriously ambitious than those constructed by the landed aristocracy of the 18th century, Victorian mill-owners, or Citizen Kane himself?
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The population there is much different, filled with gloriously rotund men and women, fat beyond belief.
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A gloriously sweet and rich melange of fruit and chocolate, this would have made me come back even if the rest had been absolutely execrable.
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Gloriously defeated at the age of twenty-three, she committed suicide rather than suffer the shame of surrender.
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It remains gloriously aloof from man's bitter quarrels, soaring, with a heavenly grace, beyond earthly feuds.
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Birds of all kinds flocked there in enormous numbers, and banqueted gloriously during the summer.
La Vend�e
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When I talk about cheesecake I am talking about the true, baked variety, gloriously rich and creamy.
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I still intend to get that film before the group as a tour de force of big-shouldered broads gloriously over-acting.
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Life is messy and gloriously imperfect, and a few signs of wear and tear indicate a well-loved, well-used home.
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A gloriously armoured fop who sat astride his decorative stallion while others did the work for him.
TREASON KEEP
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She offers a high-toned essay on two stage performers behind a bright-red scrim, posed in front of gloriously vivid flowers.
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They are wonderful eggs, gloriously random, massive great things alongside tiny pullets' eggs, round ones, tall thin ones, brown, white, speckled.
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The chronology is gloriously haywire but it reads quite naturally.
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The sun was gloriously illuminating the two men to the west, though both were beset by threatening dark clouds above them.
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how gloriously happy she had been during those few fleeting moments of time
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Although today began with a cool, misty, autumnal twist, it turned out gloriously fine and bright.
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Throughout his memoirs, he revels in reflected glory, the more so when it is ingloriously undeserved, and when it comes to "dining out", Harper's Ferry plainly ranks with Balaclava and Little Big Horn and Cawnpore.
THE NUMBERS
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This is a precious text, its publishers and authors are saying, that gloriously defies vulgar commercial logic.
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This is not the competition those majestic players won so gloriously in the 50s.
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He vaingloriously longs to play all the parts.
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Gharib and the Islamised Jinn fell upon them and gloriously done for Gharib! indeed that day he pleased the Lord who answereth prayer and slaked his vengeance with the talisman-sword!
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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This movie is a glorious self-indulgence about a man who is gloriously self-indulgent.
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A gloriously armoured fop who sat astride his decorative stallion while others did the work for him.
TREASON KEEP
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You have seen the sort of man I mean: to-day generous to his last plack, to-morrow the widow's oppressor; Sunday a soul humble at the throne of grace, and writhing with remorse for some child's sin, Monday riding vain-gloriously in the glaur on the road to hell, bragging of filthy amours, and inwardly gloating upon a crime anticipated.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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And don't miss the pottery next door – another McGowan is the craftswoman turning out gloriously glazed bowls, tea mugs and the like.
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In gloriously warm weather, the festival provided the perfect curtain-raiser to the main event, Kent CCC's President's XI versus and Old England XI.
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I can particularly recommend the banana tatin, which came with homemade ice-cream, or the gloriously rich and gooey chocolate pudding.
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Their tireless determination to challenge themselves - and their audiences - resulted in some of the most gloriously unclassifiable music of the past year.
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It was a terrible game but the sun shone gloriously throughout and the wine was chilled to perfection.
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Britain _has_ advantages at this stage of the race, which make the competition no longer equal -- henceforwards it has become gloriously "unfair" -- but at starting we were all equal.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843
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An ancient woman with a gloriously goitrous neck did the robot over to Pretty and shouted, “Go on, girl.”
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The substantial plate of rabbit was beautifully tender and came with the sort of gloriously rich sauce that you can feel furring up your arteries as you eat.
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The city was gloriously clean, its classical columns and pediments and its baroque scrolls and volutes now clearly delineated by the shadows cast by an oblique sun on their pale surfaces.
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The story of three feuding women is described as touching, funny, wise and gloriously witty.
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The meat wasn't as moist as it might have been, and the brie blended in so well that I wondered if there was actually any present, but the sauce was a gloriously tart accompaniment and the sweet potato rosti was cooked perfectly.
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If you follow this plan as assiduously as I know you will, you should be gloriously swacked long before Gary loses contact with Val.
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In some situations it makes good sense, at least in the short term, to use violence and to behave selfishly, fearfully or vaingloriously.
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I am sorry, very very sorry, at what you are dealing with, but gloriously pleased that you are around and giving life a good punch whenever you can, and I hold you in my thoughts when you "shatter" which I now see is often in between boxing bouts ?
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I believe that the non-arrival of the Fezzan caravan is to be ascribed to the encreased demands of black slaves on the coast of Barbary, to replace the white slaves so gloriously delivered by the English fleet, for I have understood that the intercourse between Tripoly and Fezzan has been very brisk for the last twelvemonth.
Travels in Nubia
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The contents are similarly sweet, gloriously adventuresome pop crafted with astonishing ambition and proficiency, even while being loopily sloppy and self-referential.
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From that date you could drink it by the jugful in the cafés of Paris, and a gloriously refreshing tipple it was.
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The slacklining begins at sundown, the various walkers gloriously backlit by a cliff across the Valley that shines in the last light of day.
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Color gloriously informs the identity of a vintage car with whitewall tires in Mexico City's Automobile Museum.
Color gloriously informs the identity of a vintage car with whitewall tires in Mexico City's Automobile Museum. © Anthony Wright, 2009
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In rougher, gloriously weedy places, I don't remember watching as many gold-banded hoverflies fiddling with the nipplewort.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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In the morning he watched with unseeing eyes the headland come out a shapeless inkblot against the thin light of the false dawn, pass through all the stages of daybreak to the deep purple of its outlined mass nimbed gloriously with the gold of the rising sun.
Within the Tides
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She always has that vaingloriously blasé look on her face.
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What was unexpected, amazingly, gloriously unexpected was the way the game's elder statesmen had one final fling.
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It is to be hoped the happy event will rival the Hallowe'en nuptials of that gloriously tressed couple Belinda Cornish and Mark Meer.
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It is hard for me to think about the Aran Islands, the three rugged outposts off the coast of Galway, without dreaming of a perfect pint of Guinness on a drizzling summer afternoon, when all hopes of walking, or cycling, or swimming had been gloriously dampened by the weather, and there was only one place to go, and that was the pub.
Old, Heavy, Bitter and Divine
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One second it was gloriously sunny, the next a thick blanket of snow descended.
The Sun
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A brain injury precludes his appearances on the ice these days, but no matter, his mental faculties remain gloriously undimmed.
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Egypt, delivering us from popery, which is Romish idolatry, and causing the light of his truth to break forth gloriously among us.
The Ten Commandments
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Now her lyrics and other ponderings fill up her gloriously uncensored blog.
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brightest eyes that ever have shone" glitter yet more gloriously, till in their nearer and dearer splendor a Chaldean would forget the stars; and the "sweetest lips that ever were kissed" sip the creaming Verzenay, or savor the delicate "olio," with a keener honesty of zest.
Border and Bastille
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A small bird trills its song, vaingloriously trying to compete with the thundering waters below.
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I was surrounded by gloriously clean-limbed Corinthians with gleaming kit and designer Lycra body suits.
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The Piano Trio in F minor is a gloriously sunny work that is comparable to similar works by Arensky and Tchaikovsky.
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Although opener ‘Pressure Drop’ begins with a hint of sparky, Sea and Cake-style discordance, it blooms into a gloriously euphonic chorus of ringing guitars and viola swoops spread lavishly with Archer's bedhead vocals.
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After some distinctly underwhelming performances of late, this was the day when it all came gloriously right for Boroughmuir with a nine-try walloping of the side alleged to be their nearest rivals for the Premiership 1 title.
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When I talk about cheesecake I am talking about the true, baked variety, gloriously rich and creamy.
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That hardly matters, though, because most of the castle is gloriously unrestored.
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At the age of 24, he began writing about a gloriously talented baseball team for a cultivated newspaper during the golden age of the American summer game.
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In the black-and-white era with its gloriously melodic music, heroes and heroines could get away with the minimum of gyrations.
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It's a moment he has thirsted for, really, since the plane ride home after last season, which ended ingloriously at the hands of the Texas Rangers with Mr. Burnett bounced from the playoff rotation.
Burnett's Tuning Out the Noise
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From that date you could drink it by the jugful in the cafés of Paris, and a gloriously refreshing tipple it was.
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How monotonously alike all the great tyrantsand conquerors have been : how gloriously different are the saints.
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He is given the part of Pyramus, though he vaingloriously longs to play all the parts.
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I love it when we can dump this kind of brainless, racist, gloriously-empty trash into the laps of twelve year-olds!
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Well, the attention to detail is excellent, and as soon as we sat down small plates of ham and pungent Parmesan and some gloriously crisp olive oil appeared out of the ether.
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Delicious too was a chunky lamb chump chop with flageolet beans, skins still intact, but gloriously floury within, all mixed up with creamy goats' cheese and surrounded by rich brown rosemary gravy.
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All I could see were glowing puffs in the west: gloriously orange and then mellowing to a yellow and peaking to a pink: all the time silhouetting the city that stretched small in front of it.
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The biggest wardrobe fail was to not hand your jacket in at the coat check and make manifest your gloriously toned triceps.
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His one-off concert on the final night of the iTunes festival was gloriously glitzy and endlessly energetic.
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Fair himself is a bewildering stage presence - gloriously unselfconscious, gleefully sounding out lyrics as if he's just invented them - while the reliable Fanclub provide a beautiful backdrop.
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As one writer of the period quaintly puts it, "The gospel spirit is not yet so gloriously arisen as to seek them more than theirs," while another in stronger terms affirms, "To the shame of the Christian name, no pains have ever been taken to convert them to Christianity; on the contrary, their morals are perverted and corrupted by the sad example they daily have of its depraved professors residing in their towns.
Indians of North Carolina: Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, Transmitting, in Response to a Senate Resolution of June 30, 1914, a Report on the Condition and Tribal Rights of the Indians of Robeson and Adjoining Counties of North Carolina
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And those songs almost invariably lead to a gloriously catchy chorus.
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I have slept little in cramped aeroplane seats and gloriously on motel beds the size of a small European farm.
