Faith, certainty, dogmas, anathemas, prayers, prohibitions, orders, taboos, tyrannies, wars and glories overwhelmed the order of things.
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I understand that it is one of the glories of that body that they have created a great fund of endowment.
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The railways were apparently going to waste in 1933, and that was in the days of the glories of free enterprise.
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We do not deceive ourselves with nostalgic dreams of past glories.
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One of the glories of this country is the amount of voluntary work you can get.
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The constant preoccupation and research to save life and make possible more healthy children is one of the glories of the medical profession.
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He gloried in personal and political unpopularity to that end.
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I should imagine it will take place with all the glories of red-tape.
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One of the glories of this country is that we have the freedom to demonstrate in peace.
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Already you know who is the aggressor, who has destroyed the peace-keeping force, and who has gloried in its destruction.
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We gloried in it because it vindicated parliamentary government as against executive government.
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One of the glories of our country is that we have country pubs and a social fabric that has some contact with alcohol.
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Our national parks have always been—it is one of their glories—living, working landscapes.
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Will he do something to regain the recent glories in that respect?
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Collocationswithglory
glory
These are words often used in combination withglory.
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blaze of glory
He goes out in ablazeofgloryto an unknown but promised land.
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full glory
Now at last the whole work can be heard in itsfullglory.
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moment of glory
The shipyard workers are being told that they have had theirmomentofgloryand now they are to be given very little hope.
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