Glories

This building is one of the many glories of Venice.

No nation can fully understand itself or find its place in the world if it does not look with clear eyes at all the glories and disgraces, too, of the past. We, in the United States, acknowledge such an injustice in our own history: The internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry was a great injustice, and it will never be repeated.

But the glories of the landscape were all wasted upon my companion, who was sunk in the deepest thought.

Government videos depict images of past Ottoman Empire glories, and promise to extend Turkish influence across the Mediterranean and beyond.

I have zinnias and morning glories in my garden.

He says he glories in what happened, and that good may be done indirectly; but I wish he would not so wear himself out now he is getting old, and would leave such pigs to their wallowing.

Shaoyang, in the southwest of central China's Hunan province, is an almost forgotten city despite past glories in a history spanning more than 25 centuries, dating back to the Spring and Autumn period.