go to glory

Example Sentences

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One after another I pulled them all up and piled them in a bundle on the cellar roof, so as they might go to glory with the rest. 

From Island Nights' Entertainments by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Ef I should go to glory on de road, Uncle Isham," said Aunt Patsy, as the right wheel of the cart emerged from a rather awkward rut, "I don' want no fuss made 'bout me.

From The Late Mrs. Null by Stockton, Frank Richard

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

You trying to catch up the slits in the mainsail as fast as the wind slitted them, with the knowledge that we'd probably go to glory if you got behind; I shan't forget that.

From The Recipe for Diamonds by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright

"Go, my Philippe," said I; "go to glory."

From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick