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glory in something

to be very pleased or proud about something. Her parents gloried in her success as an artist.

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You know how I have loved you; you can intimately judge of my present feelings, but I am not so weak as to find indulgence in describing them to a woman who will glory in having excited their anguish, but whose affection they have never been able to gain. Lady Susan by Austen, Jane View in context Full of clattering buffoons is the market-place,--and the people glory in their great men Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context And the people - ah, the people - They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who, tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone - They are neither man nor woman - They are neither brute nor human - They are Ghouls: - And their king it is who tolls: - And he rolls, rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context More results

References in classic literature

You know how I have loved you; you can intimately judge of my present feelings, but I am not so weak as to find indulgence in describing them to a woman who will glory in having excited their anguish, but whose affection they have never been able to gain.

Lady Susan by Austen, Jane View in context

Full of clattering buffoons is the market-place,--and the people glory in their great men

Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context

And the people - ah, the people - They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who, tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone - They are neither man nor woman - They are neither brute nor human - They are Ghouls: - And their king it is who tolls: - And he rolls, rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls

Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context

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