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    1. Rand gloried over the mass of humanity starving until they, from her point of view, “learned their lesson” and sunk back into subservience, recognizing they existed only to serve elites


    2. 25 How can he get wisdom who holds the plough, and he who gloried in the goad, that drives oxen, and is occupied in their labours,


    3. The monks gloried in the soul's final freedom from its fleshly captivity


    4. Thus, the Highest Priest gloried in having the largest and most pointed horns (about ten feet each—yes, the roof was very high)


    5. The billionaire Bass brothers of Fort Worth, TX, would buy the radio stations! Roy gloried in chatting with Perry Bass, a glib and attractive oil and cattleman and sophisticated business executive


    6. She gloried in his attentions as he massaged her shoulders and back with his fingertips, adapting a gentler version of the Ranger’s rubdown techniques he’d used after weapons practices


    7. There was no confusion of artificial odors to deal with, only the vibrant redolence of nature and the sweating man gloried in its presence as his mind catalogued various bouquets, some innocent, a few threatening, but all encyclopedic


    8. Shirl didn’t want to spoil her bay and wouldn’t allow Murray to shoot at the trees so he gathered together some driftwood and showing Shirl how to load they fired their first cartridges, Murray was stunned by the devastation caused by the sawn off and soon found that the further away you were the less destructive it became, Shirl found that she had very good hand-eye co-ordination and gloried in her new found skill, she soon discarded the sawn off preferring the ten shot automatic, Murray sat on the sand and watched her with the automatic shotgun, after every shot she stepped back a couple of paces and fired again, nine out of ten shots sent driftwood splinters flying in the air, to Murray this was nothing short of amazing and later he told Shirl so


    9. gloried in the bond that stretched over hundreds


    10. of Moses, which Israel gloried in, died at the death of Christ

    11. Rubens was a painter who gloried in the unrestrained expression of the zeal to live and drink deeply of life, and glorious as much of his work is, and wonderful as it all is, the excessive use of curves and rounded forms in his later work robs it of much of its power and offends us by its grossness


    12. And this is how it happens that painters who have gloried in rich details have always painted small pictures, and painters who have preferred larger truths pictures of bigger dimensions


    13. The Law of Moses, which Israel gloried in, died at the death of Christ


    14. the shower and gloried in a good washing under a heavy flow of hot water, followed by an


    15. His kiss was fierce, almost savage, as if he was a starving man at a feast, but I gloried in it


    16. Elinor gloried in his integrity; and Marianne forgave all his offences in compassion for his punishment


    17. They gloried in it


    18. The Bird gloried in the limelight, and for that night, he let Louie and the others be


    19. But Winfield gloried in the scene


    20. There was a childish streak in the boy’s nature that gloried in a confidence; the joy of the secret nearly made up for the sorrow of the fact

    21. Paul, once said—and he may have often said it—that he gloried in his own infirmities; adding that the power of Christ might rest on him


    1. endlessly and the glories and splendours of your surroundings grew shabby and mean


    2. she were frugal for a few years, and given the likely length of her life, then the glories


    3. candles that, in this simulacrum of past glories, illuminated the stone in a wash of


    4. The pickings became sour and few, you hungered endlessly and the glories and splendours of your surroundings grew shabby and mean


    5. She worked out that if she were frugal for a few years, and given the likely length of her life, then the glories of compound interest and stock markets might make her fabulously wealthy


    6. The walls, like those in the corridor below, were hewn out of huge blocks of solid rock and the space was illuminated by the soft glow of candles, candles that, in this simulacrum of past glories, illuminated the stone in a wash of yellow and amber


    7. I could go on for a whole book writing ecstatically of the wonder and the glories of honey but let it suffice to say that if you think you dislike honey then try all the different ones you can find


    8. All that Terry could do, once the dust had settled and his divorce had been dragged through the mire of the gutter press, was to lend his name and his former glories to endorsements and dubious advertising campaigns


    9. glories, that the entrant was his own gardener, who had learned his


    10. Our church is already planning another expedition, and that expedition will be staffed to begin conversions and equipped to let people see the real glories that await them here, in the better life of the Afterlife, in the Christial Church

    11. prophets spoke of "the sufferings of Christ" and the "glories


    12. One by one, each boy cat would process up that path to the glories awaiting him beyond


    13. from destruction; that he may rehearse your glories in all his times, and may praise your great name: (5) when you have delivered him


    14. his riches; 24 But let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord which exercise loving


    15. Verses 17 and 18, Paul glories, or takes great pleasure in the fact that he is being used to


    16. The glories of yesterday-centuries old


    17. Q: You mean to say that all these glories will come with the


    18. National Historic Site of San Juan is as much a reminder of the ironies and dilemmas as of the glories and tragedies of the Spanish colonial experience


    19. “And if they were in the habit of conferring honors among themselves on those who were the quickest to observe the passing shadows and to remark which of them went before, and which followed after, and which were together, and who were therefore best able to draw conclusions as to the future, do you think that he would care for such honors and glories, or envy the possessors of them? Would he not say with Homer, ‘Better to be the poor servant of a poor master, and to endure anything rather than think as they do and live after their manner?’ ”


    20. 15 For though Adam first sinned; And brought untimely death on all; Yet of those who were born from him; Each one of them has prepared for his own soul torment to come; And again each one of them has chosen for himself glories to come

    21. 7 For on his account and on account of those who are like him were the honourable glories of which you were told before created and prepared


    22. " "Listen then and give ear to the glories of God


    23. And others continuing to live until the end with the heathen and being corrupted by their vain glories [departed from God serving the works and deeds of the heathen


    24. The quiet myst’ry of the Gate, the overwhelming steady stream, I recognized were only hints of greater glories yet to come


    25. robed in the glories of a Kingdom I am entering as a little child


    26. It is not enough that you live as you were before this hour, but henceforth must you live as those who have tasted the glories of a better life and have been sent back to earth as ambassadors of the Sovereign of that new and better world


    27. Unmindful of her reservations, he tried to brainwash her about the glories of heroine


    28. The unselfish glories of Paradise are not possible of reception by a thoroughly selfish creature of the realms of time and space


    29. And they who do these things shall restore the wasted glories; they shall raise up the foundations of many generations; they shall be called the rebuilders of broken walls, the restorers of safe paths in which to dwell


    30. But tall, somber Stygians, standing back in the shadows, glowered darkly, remembering their ancient glories

    31. One of the crowning glories of human friendship is this power and possibility of the mutual stimulation of the imagination


    32. He said: "I thank you, my Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that, while this wonderful gospel was hidden from the wise and self-righteous, the spirit has revealed these spiritual glories to these children of the kingdom


    33. And when this kingdom of spiritual pre-eminence does come upon the earth, it will not be manifested in mere improved social and material conditions, but rather in the glories of those enhanced and enriched spiritual values which are characteristic of the approaching age of improved human relations and advancing spiritual attainments


    34. Looking down upon the vast multitude coming forth from the city to greet him, the Master, with much emotion and with tearful voice, said: "O Jerusalem, if you had only known, even you, at least in this your day, the things which belong to your peace, and which you could so freely have had! But now are these glories about to be hid from your eyes


    35. When Akkutho I revived the lost glories of Khorshemish, he built a fortress there


    36. When the priest talked of the glories of the civilized nations, his dark-skinned listeners were intent, not on the ideals of his religion, but on the loot which he unconsciously described in the narration of rich cities and shining lands


    37. The dark hands which shattered the artistic glories of the conquered never tried to copy them


    38. And oh the stories they tell; The glories they swell


    39. They say his spirit rages with the glories of a thousand heavens


    40. “His spirit, they say, shines with the glories of a thousand heavens

    41. The world was understood in terms of the great pitched battle between good and evil, a battle that could explain all the glories and hardships that befell the ground dwellers


    42. So the testaments claim that the angels proclaimed glories from the heavens; this can be seen as true as the messengers and believers of God who were present in Bethlehem would be able to feel the presence of the 135


    43. (Lvoof) The place held a certain fascination for him as his mother and aunts talked very often of its glories in contrasting these to the bleakness of the African environment, which he loved so much


    44. Joe is sure to give us some great knickerbocker glories with raspberry and chocolate topping,’ Wat assures Tracey


    45. To satisfy this he proclaimed the birth of a 'New Roman Empire' which was to take shape under his direction, and would recreate the ancient glories of Rome


    46. Herb was an interesting character who was always going on about the glories of his quarry


    47. On one wall was a crookedly pinned newspaper reflecting some of Ace Rango’s former glories


    48. My Pretty Lotus departed with no words and took nothing with her but her glories,


    49. You can even plant quick growing vines and flowers, such as morning glories and hollyhocks, around your house


    50. But “He who glories, let him glory in the Lord













































    1. Jer: 9:24: “But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the


    2. calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance


    3. God entrusted us with His glory


    4. God does not work without manifesting His glory


    5. John: 2:11: This is the beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his


    6. God will restore back His glory to the church


    7. churches that are full of God’s glory


    8. Moreover, God’s glory should not end in the church but it


    9. Psalms: 63:2: To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary


    10. don’t want to see your power and glory in the church

    11. 'Yes, he's desperately trying to remember the last time he saw it in there, but you know what these glory holes are like


    12. Serpent basked in God's great glory on golden wings


    13. For it is for His glory, when those who


    14. His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace


    15. would see the glory of God?”


    16. glory? We will see the wounds heal, the pain move away, and death back


    17. of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory


    18. He is in us, the hope of glory


    19. supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus


    20. know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of

    21. that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be


    22. God the glory and honor


    23. “For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass


    24. sterling characteristic of a strong leader is that he practices; what he teaches and does not seek glory for himself


    25. Jesus said, “And I seek not mine own glory: there one that seeketh and Judgeth” John 8:50)


    26. The Kid stepped back into the corridor and allowed me to lift my hood up so that I could see the full glory of his bounty


    27. Decisions made for the glory of the decision maker and not for the good of the nation or in this case the Haad


    28. all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue” (2 Peter 1:3)


    29. How do we see prosperity? It is through the resurrection of Jesus and the glory of God raising us up by that same power


    30. This ideology includes and eclipses the idea that clouds and darkness are there because no one can see God in His full glory

    31. It embraces it, but then says that unless there are clouds and darkness we cannot see God in His fullness and glory


    32. In bearing our own cross, the cross of Christ becomes all the more clear as to the glory that God displayed there


    33. At the end, there is glory


    34. In every moment that God is present, there is a suffering before there is a glory


    35. It is for this reason that Jesus rebuked those on the road to Emmaus, “Foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and then enter His glory?” Is it not the pattern of God to bring darkness and suffering before there is a glory?


    36. No, we speak of God’s secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began


    37. None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory


    38. When we gain that glory, we will be eternally joyous


    39. Though our flesh has not experienced such glory, our spirits are reborn


    40. Suffering precedes the glory

    41. We, who have been born again, have died to old mindsets, old addictions, old habits, and old views of God to be raised again by the glory of the Father into newness of life


    42. What is at stake is the issue of life and death and eternity, which is in the last analysis the issue of the glory of God


    43. If we do not have the appropriate wisdom for those moments we will not just lose life, but will also profane the eternal glory of God and mare His image


    44. Jesus did nothing that would not bring glory to God the Father


    45. What is it to us (or Him) if we struggle through this life to gain the greater glory? But when we struggle and suffer here on earth, we are quick to point the finger and question God


    46. even all of them, lie in glory,


    47. The same people that saw the glory of God bringing Israel out of Egypt and into the Land is the same generation that will see heaven on earth


    48. God casts all that reject His glory into the lake of fire


    49. Our call and our purpose is to attain unto that glory


    50. Those that go down into death are those that are raised up by the same glory of the Father into resurrection glory














































    1. I discarded my sandals and stretched my toes, glorying in the feel of grass between my toes


    2. 16 And let just men eat and drink with you; and let your glorying be in the fear of the Lord


    3. Sennacherim, the grievous King of the Assyrians, glorying in his countless hosts, had subdued the whole land with his spear, and was


    4. He was fascinated to watch young men proudly showing off their girl friends, or mature men glorying of their beautiful families


    5. He closed his eyes and gratefully wrapped his arms around her, glorying in the reassuring warmth of her love


    6. ” he grinned, vicariously glorying in her joy


    7. 5 When Sennacherim the grievous King of the Assyrians glorying in his countless hosts had subdued the whole land with his spear and was lifting himself against your holy city with boastings grievous to be endured you O Lord did demolish him and did show out your might to many nations


    8. 5 Let our glorying and our confidence be in him; let us submit ourselves to his will; let us consider the whole multitude of his angels how they stand by and serve his will


    9. Khemsa was drunk with freedom and the exercise of his power, glorying in his might and flinging his strength about as a young giant exercises his thews with unnecessary vigor in the exultant pride of his prowess


    10. “You’re glorying in the moment yourself, but then you always do

    11. The OREH, THE EVIL AURA triumphing over good, and glorying in his hidden unseen evil


    12. A mist dispersed; I saw my life to be forfeit; and fled from the scene of these excesses, at once glorying and trembling, my lust of evil gratified and stimulated, my love of life screwed to the topmost peg


    13. His hands and fingernails were filthy, his face and legs were covered with muck, his clothes were sodden and he was glorying in the wetness of it all


    14. At the instant of the dart an ulcerous jet shot from this cruel wound, and goaded by it into more than sufferable anguish, the whale now spouting thick blood, with swift fury blindly darted at the craft, bespattering them and their glorying crews all over with showers of gore, capsizing Flask's boat and marring the bows


    15. He bore himself proudly and haughtily, as though he felt that he were being watched by several dozen curious eyes and were glorying in his evil reputation exactly as some incorrigible rogue might glory in his criminal exploits


    16. Suppose we had descended from those nations—from the last, especially, which stood self-condemned, on her own confession, as incapable of free government, hugging her chains, glorying in her shame, priding herself in the slave's last poor distinction, the splendor of her tyrant master? Had we sprung from the loins of Frenchmen, (he shuddered at the thought!) where would have been that proud spirit of resistance to Ministerial encroachment on our rights and liberties, which achieved our independence? We should have submitted to the tea tax, the stamp act, and the whole train of Grenville and North ministerial oppression


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    Synonyms for "glory"

    glory resplendence resplendency aura aureole gloriole halo nimbus glorification grandeur pomp splendour magnificence richness brilliance honour fame praise renown celebrity distinction eminence rejoice exult triumph

    "glory" definitions

    a state of high honor


    brilliant radiant beauty


    an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint


    rejoice proudly