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'Glorying' not only describes an attitude of mind, but an activity of life.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. Alexander Maclaren 1868
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Glorying in the tactical stand of the moment is more important to Republicans than the havoc a default would wreak on the world markets.
US default debate: Russian roulette in America | Editorial 2011
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Glorying in his chance to replace John Paul Stevens 'doctor as the most important liberal in America, President Obama nominated moderate Elena Kagan to walk in the 90-year-old's comfortable shoes.
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Glorying in his yellow streak, was he, and taking that nice girl with him to Coventry!
Flowering Wilderness 2004
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Glorying, I raced over the deck searching for a hatch; and it was good to run in that cold and in that air, though every limping stride stung my feet; and at last I leaped up, and the wind took me again as I had known it would and bore me far down that immense hull before I could seize hold of a backstay that nearly tore my arms from their sockets.
The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987
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Glorying in the valiant spirit of these women, who in loneliness and hardship played an important but unheralded role in the conquest of this new country,
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Glorying in such names as Goodwin, and Charnock, and Owen, it was the ambition of the early Nonconformists of England to perpetuate among themselves a learned ministry.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various
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Glorying in being the custodian of the miraculous statue, she hastened to relate its wonderful history to
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Glorying as they do in a splendid tradition, they have always had in addition the opportunity of adapting themselves to new needs.
Cambridge Essays on Education Various
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"Glorying in life, Mrs. Trapes, and praising the good God for health and strength to enjoy it and the fulness thereof --"
The Definite Object A Romance of New York Jeffery Farnol 1915
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