But the king gloried in as “the sword of Italy” was defeated and obliged to abdicate.
Although she openly avowed the deed before the court and gloried in it, she was amid the acclamations of the public acquitted.
Were the absence of new heretical, sectarian and fanatical developments something to be gloried in for itself alone, the Eastern church, with its absolute stability, would obtain this distinction in a far higher degree.
In 1850, and since, these men have publicly gloried in a similar act even more atrocious.
Alas, how much have I gloried in even more worthless and transient things; but thou hast put a worm in them, which I hope has cut the roots, and they are in a dying state.
The devotees, however, gloried in being flogged, and declared that it was a just punishment for their sins.
At stated periods, the numerous tribes who gloried in the Suevic blood, resorted thither by their ambassadors; and the memory of their common extraction was perpetrated by barbaric rites and human sacrifices.
The republic gloried in her generous policy, and was frequently rewarded by the merit and services of her adopted sons.
The debates were conducted with decent freedom; and the emperors themselves, who gloried in the name of senators, sat, voted, and divided with their equals.
Disdaining an ignominious flight, the virgins of the warm climate of Africa encountered the enemy in the closest engagement; they permitted priests and deacons to share their bed, and gloried amidst the flames in their unsullied purity.
They gloried in passing whole days and nights at table; and the blood of friends and relations often stained their numerous and drunken assemblies.
His natural taste was for a simple, inexpensive life; yet in his large hospitality, and in a certain boyish love of grandeur, he gloried in the splendor of his entertainment, the admiration and delight of his guests.
Yet he never willingly gave her pain, and he adored her and gloried in her dominion, his life long.
You have Reason to rejoice that this did not happen within the Observation of one of the young Fellows, who would have exposed your Weakness, and gloried in his own Brutish Inclinations.
It is not however to be imagin'd how much the Atheists have gloried in these their good Friends and Allies.
He gloried in an attitude of non-reconstruction and died when Phoebe was a year old.
The major fairly gloried in her knowledge of the arrangement of his library and delighted her with quick requests for his books during the most absorbing moments of their discussions.
In the mean time, Richard, having sailed from Cyprus, was coming on, though he was delayed on his way by an occurrence which he greatly gloried in, deeming it doubtless a very brilliant exploit.
Instead of being ashamed of this deed, Richard gloried in it.
Captain Dugald was what is called a 'dare-devil,' and I think he rather gloried in that name.
She gloried in the adulation her youth, beauty, wealth, and title commanded from her companions on the steamer; hut she gloried more in the anticipation of future successes and triumphs on a larger scale and more extensive field.
Had he lived, my friend, he would have brightened that name which rumor has sullied, and I should have doubly gloried in wearing the name he had rendered so worthy of being coupled with the kingly title.
Still Lilly gloriedin the success of her work of salvation.
He, who once had been shy of appearing with Lilly in the streets or park, now gloried in exhibiting himself to the public as her cavalier.
Having gloried in everything to her heart's content, she proceeded on her triumphal march through her new territory.
Gladstone, whose splendor then filled the political heavens, had just delivered a great speech in which he had gloried in the wonderful increase in Britain's trade and wealth.
And the Syndicalists gloried in the fact that the government, instead of treating the strikers as mutineers, parleyed with them and reinstated them.
He never cared, sir--he GLOried in it--GLOried in being a pauper.
A superlative coxcomb, and an epicure more from fashion than taste, he gloried in descanting, with technical precision, on the merits of dishes and of cooks.
He gloried in an open-air life, he enjoyed sport, he was a man wedded to duty, stern and uncompromising once his mind was made up.
The magnificent art treasures, which Napoleon had gloried in plundering, were to be returned to their rightful owners.
Now, comrades of the North, let an old "Confederate vet" who has gloried in the privilege of frequently grasping your hands for forty years, say a parting word to you.
It gloriedin its free-soil doctrine, which was a declaration that the Southern States should no longer enjoy their share in the Territories of the government.
Mark gloried in the number, as it was a long shot at the duck, and they showed that he had aimed straight.
They gloried in their gun, and in fact, though so heavy, it was a real weapon capable of shooting, and many a battle in the olden times was won with no better.
They had died the deaths of heroes and patriots, and she gloried in their fame, declaring that they had found worthy graves in the temples of the gods.
They were now forced to retire from Italy, Stilicho and the emperor entered Rome, and that capital saw its last great triumph, and gloried in a revival of its magnificent ancient games.
Flattered, as the lords of the world, by their favourite poets and historians, they gloried in their proud pre-eminence, and thought that they were but fulfilling their destiny in asserting a claim to universal dominion.
Such toils would not have been endured, such sacrifices would not have been made, victories over tribes so savage would not thus have been gloried in, except the question 'cui bono?
In short, he was as much a dictator as the then existing forms of the Constitution allowed, and he gloried in his power.
He was her master, too, and she gloried in the fact.
He gloried in his sufferings; and at last, haggard and wasted, he returned to his own country and estate; but his relatives did not know him, and he was cast into prison and died.
He gloried in tending the sick lepers and in all the hardships of poverty.
His life was voluptuous; he gloried in the pleasures of the chase.
Instead of flinching, she gloried that she had seven sons worthy to be saints in Paradise, and she herself was subjected to a barbarous and lingering death, and at length beheaded or plunged into boiling oil.
But she gloried in being called and in calling herself a Christian.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gloried" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
