go to glory
Example Sentences
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Well, you know ships wear out: and if you varnish them rotten, and insure them high, and they go to glory, Mr. Plimsoll is down on you like a hammer.
From A Woman-Hater by Reade, Charles
The rest of Venice might go to glory; we, soothed amid such ease and comfort as might have satisfied a doge, turned our thoughts to the links of home.
From The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer by Leach, Henry
The cross is the standing way-mark by which all they that go to glory must pass by.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by Bunyan, John
"If you offered me four thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine pounds," Trent interrupted roughly, "I would tell you to go to glory."
From A Millionaire of Yesterday by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
Some go to foreign wars, and camps by the firelight— Some go to glory so; and some go to bed!
From The Book of Joyous Children by Vawter, Will
