glorious

• “He does not like the term glorious ', which was invented, he says, by journalists.”

  Evening Standard - Home

• “Belton, to hold themselves in readiness to obey his summons, on the likelihood there is of room for what he calls glorious mischief.”

  Clarissa Harlowe

• “This is what I call glorious," said Ned, as he opened a can of condensed milk and passed it around.”

  Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters

• “They had been successful the past winter and had sold their furs for a good price, and now Johnnie had plenty of money and was having what he termed a glorious good time, spending from ten to forty dollars a day.”

  Thirty-One Years on the Plains and In the Mountains

• “The wagons had been emptied, and grain and meal stored under cover; horses and bullocks had a good feed, and one of the wagons was demolished for firewood, our whole force revelling in what they called a glorious roast of beef.”

  Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer

• “In later Greece -- in what we call the glorious period -- toil had gathered about it its modern crust of supposed baseness -- it was left to slaves; and wise men, in their philosophic lecture-rooms, spoke of it as unworthy of the higher specimens of cultivated humanity.”

  Short Studies on Great Subjects

• “I know that feyther, both before and after his removal to Lunnon, used to make us all drink the '' Ard ware of Old Hingland '-- by witch, "she proceeded, correcting herself by a reproving glance from the sheriff --" by witch he meant what he called the glorious sinews of the country at large, lestwise in the manufacturing districts.”

  Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One

• “Warns Belford, Mowbray, Tourville, and Belton, to hold themselves in readiness to obey his summons, on the likelihood there is of room for what he calls glorious mischief.”

  Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1

• “And finally, if you just couldn't stand watching the original Star Trek on the CBS site, you can now watch full episodes in 'glorious' YouTube format on YouTube!”

  Tube Bits for 10/13/2008

• “(though perhaps only through a coincidence) to a certain extent to represent what I call our glorious constitution in Church and State.”

  The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete

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