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This penance may recall Dante's lines Quando vivea piů glorioso, disse Liberamente nel campo di Siena Ogni vergogna deposta, s'affisse When at his glory's topmost height," said he Respect of dignity all cast aside Freely he fix'd him on Sienna's plain CARY.

—Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784

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A boaster; a glorioser. Some wise men thought his Holinesse did forfeit a parcel of his infallibility in giving credit to such a Glorioso, vaunting that with three thousand Souldiers he would beat all the English out of Ireland. Fuller, Worthies, Devon (I. 284).

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En el dominio público, en inglés y en glorioso blanco y negro. — Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO'
El glorioso artículo de la necrofilia homosexual del ánade real no aparece en mis archivos. — Las penas del Agente Smith
This penance may recall Dante's lines Quando vivea piů glorioso, disse Liberamente nel campo di Siena Ogni vergogna deposta, s'affisse When at his glory's topmost height," said he Respect of dignity all cast aside Freely he fix'd him on Sienna's plain CARY. — Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784
Domator glorioso il Dio di Vino ... — Memoirs
Molto soffri nel glorioso acquisto; — The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2