I pray that the fleshpots of Egypt may not lure ye to perdition; or fine gold from Ophir, or the vain glories of sinful men, pilot ye unto destruction!
Gay, giddy as I am, Cromwell has not a child who gloriesin him more than I do.
The day was one of thoseglories of the English spring-time, with large white clouds blown across wide spaces of blue sky by the southwest wind, and with swift shadows that bowled across the green below them.
This miserable spinster, of age so obvious as to be called not the least uncertain, was Lady Ambermere's companion, and shared with her the glories of The Hall, which had been left to Lady Ambermere for life.
The conquerors of Montenotte, of Millesimo, of Dego, of Mondovi burn to carry still further theglories of the French name!
Not with the corporation of Middleton, nor the lobbies of Westminster, not with his colossal business, not even with the glories of the British Empire, was Sir Asher's true heart.
He had long parted company with Jews and Judaism, and to his ardent irreverence even the Christian glories of Middleton seemed unspeakably parochial.
Some of the most beautiful of the old Greek myths woven into the story of the Odyssey make this book a good introduction to the glories of the Golden Age.
The reconciling assurances of faith, the glories of the third heaven, still dazzled her somewhat.
Then they crossed the quadrangle to inspect the colts and fillies, where glories still lay ahead.
His eyes fell from contemplation of the glories of the window to that of the long, straight folds of the cassock which clothed him.
For the glories of that luminary, abolitionists thank God, while they mourn that it rose behind clouds, and shines through an eclipse.
For the gloriesof that luminary, abolitionists thanked God, while they mourned that it rose behind clouds and shone through an eclipse.
In the next verse Job glories in the fact that he has not "withheld from the poor their desire.
An intelligent religion, and a religious education, are the twin glories of this emancipated colony.
Her Marguerite made her reputation in this respect, and will always be one of the glories of her brilliant career.
They must be sought out, felt for, here and there, until by slow degrees the sleeping glories of the splendid past awake, and the dumb ruins and dry bones arise once more to life before their patient student's eyes.
Mrs. Rowe on the Creation: And kindling glories brighten all the skies.
The poet had to depict empty glories made up of outward pageantry, and as rainbows cannot be painted with grey, so Pope dipped his pen in the glowing colours which represented the things.
It looked as though the glories of the sunset had been distilled into it decked with the glowing hues of crimson, scarlet and gold.
Eve o'er our path is stealing fast; Yon quivering splendors are the last; His latest glories fringe the height Behind us with their golden light.
In a few seconds, the everlasting gates of morning were thrown wide open, and the lord of day, arrayed in glories too severe for the gaze of man, began his state.
Hands of angels, hidden from mortal eyes, shifted the scenery of the heavens; the glories of night dissolved into the glories of dawn.
And while among the old Peninsulars the military ardor was so universally displayed, among the regiments who had not shared the glories of Spain and Portugal, an equal, perhaps a greater, impulse was created for the approaching campaign.
It is the only tipple I know of that leaves no headache the next morning to punish you for the glories of the past night.
And Milton has refrained almost absolutely from adorning it with the similes which are among the chief glories of Paradise Lost.
With his usual proud courage he had put his own name on the title-page of his book, challenging to himself both the glories and the dangers that might come of it.
They remember a few of its glories and the rest of the poem they acquiesce in forgetting.
The people imagined that he was about to establish a kingdom in pomp and splendor and power, and in these glories they expected to share.
On the contrary, those who are to share the gloriesof the Kingdom must be looking for their returning Lord.
As they now acknowledge Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord, so in the glories of heaven he will acknowledge them as his true and loyal warriors who merit and will share the blessedness of his triumphant reign.
Then glory to His holy name, from whom all glories are; And glory to our Sovereign Lord, King Henry of Navarre!
Now glory to the Lord of hosts, from whom all glories are!
His fame shall add new glories to a house, Where never maid was false, nor knight disloyal.
Seeing no future before them, the inhabitants were content to dwell in contemplation amid the glories of the past.
English and German savants, among whom Cockerell and Stackelberg were conspicuous, recovered the glories of the temples of Aegina and Bassae.
He would not have to look back and compare his last term unfavourably with the glories of yester year.
Swinburne, the great pagan who was sick of the sham and pretence of his day, and cried for the glories of Rome.
The floor of the big school is made of exquisitely polished oak, and is one of the glories of Fernhurst.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glories" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
