Sentence examples for state of glory from inspiring English sources

Anyhow it is done; and I have been sitting these fifteen minutes in a state of glory, and calm, and some tears. . . .

Martyrs, however, are buried in the clothes in which they die, without their bodies or their garments being washed, because the blood and the dirt are viewed as evidences of their state of glory (see also Islām).

Jacaranda grows up by the ocean ("When the surf was hot, everything reached a state of hurling glory") and instinctively believes that good things are infinite.

As the surviving veterans entered their nineties, the holiday was reduced to a celebration of state glory — of a Russia that won the war over Nazi Germany and attained the status of a superpower.

Uniquely, he has been at the centre of both of the state's moments of glory.

JE MARCH Fiction A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan (Corsair) arrives from the States trailing clouds of glory.

The loss and his less-than-stellar performance ruined Van Horn's first professional game in the state of his collegiate glory.

But with the show's decline, Nickelodeon's "Rugrats" has reclaimed its place as the No. 1 show in children's television, returning Nickelodeon to its former state of Saturday morning glory.

Both state schools but trailing clouds of glory from their illustrious past.

Without that final state of disillusion, the power and glory of pop is nothing.

Though the spectacle suffered, with the field denied a shot at glory – a state of affairs that is unlikely to change soon – the season was rescued by the intra-Mercedes battle, which promised yet more drama yesterday.