The cruel enemy is making his last efforts, and already the hour approaches when our glorious army, together with our gallant allies, will crush him.
Moments later, he is drafted into the Glorious Army of the Architect – wherein everyone living in the House must serve for 100 years – which is based in the chessboard-like demesne called the Great Maze.
As Arthur escapes from the Piper with Sir Thursday, he distracts Thursday enough for the fourth part of the Will, a snake embodying the virtue of justice, to break free, whereupon it makes Arthur the Bearer of the Fourth Key – a sword or baton depending on whether or not the wielder is in combat – and Commander of the Glorious Army of the Architect.
One day Ms. Emerson and I were at a Cambodian military briefing — the officer in charge, I kid you not, was Major Am Rong — and we were being treated to a stirring recitation of the army's glorious victories.
On one side of the roadway, half a furlong beyond the glowing sign, I saw many banners, as of an army, and a glorious host of conveyances — wheels next to wheels, as if of wheels there could be no end.
At the new Brasserie Pushkin on West 57th Street, there's hot chocolate that requires a special mixing wand "to aerate the chocolate," said the general manager, Fabien Lepaitre, as well as a crème brûlée, crowned with a crispy caramel dome, flambéed with Cointreau after customers listen to a story involving Napoleon's army and a "glorious victory" in Egypt.
From Kahlenberg's summit, on September 12 1683, King Jan Sobieski of Poland led his cavalry in a glorious charge on the Ottoman army that besieged the Hapsburg capital, causing the Turks to flee in frenzied disorder and the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman empire to conclude, "Allah, in His wisdom, has not yet permitted us to capture Vienna".
In fifth grade, in a Yugoslav school under Tito, I received a homework assignment to write about the glorious battles of the Yugoslav communist army.
Texans love to boast that their state was an independent nation before it joined the union: that for nine glorious years (1836-45), Texans had their own army, navy, currency and foreign policy.
"Before the 4 June, it portrayed the Communist Party as victorious and glorious - it defeated the nationalist Kuomintang army in the civil war.
Christ, the glorious King, and his saintly cohorts confront armies of monsters and demons.
