1918. W. B. Maxwell. chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp. He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
2014 June 14, “It's a gas â€, in The Economist. volume 411, number 8891: One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
- Edmund Spenser (c.1552–1599) Spread his glory through all countries wide.
- Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) Think it no glory to swell in tyranny.
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Jewels lose their glory if neglected.
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1913. Joseph C. Lincoln. chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients. Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utdâ€, in BBC Sport [1]. But, with United fans in celebratory mood as it appeared their team might snatch glory. they faced an anxious wait as City equalised in stoppage time.
- George Chapman (1559-1634) in glory of thy fortunes
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