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in (all) someone's/something's glory

in a very happy, successful, or beautiful state. When he dropped out of the race, his opponents were in their glory. The garden in all its glory is now open to the public.

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Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd The Mother of Mankinde, what time his Pride Had cast him out from Heav'n, with all his Host Of Rebel Angels, by whose aid aspiring To set himself in Glory above his Peers, He trusted to have equal'd the most High, If he oppos'd; and with ambitious aim Against the Throne and Monarchy of God Rais'd impious War in Heav'n and Battel proud With vain attempt. Paradise Lost by Milton, John View in context I wint to the ould Colour-Sargint and I sez: - 'Let me die in glory,' sez I. The Big Drunk Draf' by Kipling, Rudyard View in context I can at will, doubt not, as soon as thou, Command a table in this wilderness, And call swift flights of Angels ministrant, Arrayed in glory, on my cup to attend: Why shouldst thou, then, obtrude this diligence In vain, where no acceptance it can find? Paradise Regained by Milton, John View in context More results

References in classic literature

Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd The Mother of Mankinde, what time his Pride Had cast him out from Heav'n, with all his Host Of Rebel Angels, by whose aid aspiring To set himself in Glory above his Peers, He trusted to have equal'd the most High, If he oppos'd; and with ambitious aim Against the Throne and Monarchy of God Rais'd impious War in Heav'n and Battel proud With vain attempt.

Paradise Lost by Milton, John View in context

I wint to the ould Colour-Sargint and I sez: - 'Let me die in glory,' sez I.

The Big Drunk Draf' by Kipling, Rudyard View in context

I can at will, doubt not, as soon as thou, Command a table in this wilderness, And call swift flights of Angels ministrant, Arrayed in glory, on my cup to attend: Why shouldst thou, then, obtrude this diligence In vain, where no acceptance it can find?

Paradise Regained by Milton, John View in context

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