143 collocations for glorifying

"I pray that in life and death I may glorify God, and that my wife and children may be provided for.

Comparisons ensued, and he realized that their simple life, free from the lust of wealth, their contempt for luxury and worldly vanities, all their common participation in toil which made them accept and glorify life and its duties, all that mode of existence of theirs which was at once their joy and their strength, sprang solely from the source of eternal energy: the love with which they glowed.

And anon he arose up from the ground, and took off the sack in which he wept, and glorified our Lord.

" The tender, pleading voice ceased and then Dyce lifted her clasped hands,"Oh, Lord Jesus, help us ter glorify thee before de worl'.

Oh, may God help all of us to glorify the Father, by thinking well of His only-begotten Son.

Most striking, probably, of the characteristics of the "Lives" is their very evident effort to exalt and glorify the saint at any cost.

In him she first learnt how one great truth received into the depths of the soul germinates there, and bears fruit a thousandfold; explaining, and connecting, and glorifying innumerable things, apparently the most unlike and insignificant; and daily she became a more reverent listener, and gave herself up, half against her will and conscience, to the guidance of a man whom she knew to be her inferior in morals and in orthodoxy.

Hence we ought not either to mourn for him, but to give his body back now in due time to Nature, and to glorify his spirit, as that of a god, forever.

Then she looked up with a smile that quite glorified her wan face.

But when her enemies accuse Charlotte Brontë of glorifying passion they praise her unaware.

Before He left that Upper Room, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, "Father, the hour is come; glorify Thy Son."

O guardian Zeus that sittest above the clouds, that inhabitest the Kronian hill and honourest the broad river of Alpheos and Ida's holy cave, suppliant to thee I come, making my cry on Lydian flutes, to pray thee that thou wilt glorify this city with brave men's renown.

The numerous diminutive dioceses, quasi-dioceses, or tribal churches, were little more than extensive parishes and the missionary bishops were little more in jurisdiction than glorified parish priests.

In my estimation, this little plant, the last born of the brilliant host of compositae that glorify the plain, is the most interesting of all.

I THE SIERRA NEVADA Go where you may within the bounds of California, mountains are ever in sight, charming and glorifying every landscape.

There is one sonnet by Kirke White, eighty-five years younger than Thomson, which is quite pagan in its mode of glorifying the power of the Deity.

I readily agree the contemplation of his works gives us occasion to admire, revere, and glorify their Author: and, if rightly directed, may be of greater benefit to mankind than the monuments of exemplary charity that have at so great charge been raised by the founders of hospitals and almshouses.

I have no idea what it is, and I may be mistaken, but it does seem that if I am obedient to the 'still small voice' in my heart, that it will lead me and cause me to glorify my Master in a more honorable work than any in which I have been yet engaged.

It is full of interesting, if ill-founded, generalisations tending to emphasise the importance of Race and to glorify the German race.)

Retracing his steps, however, the wondrous features would again be seen; and the further he withdrew from them, the more like a human face, with all its original divinity intact, did they appear; until, as it grew dim in the distance, with the clouds and glorified vapor of the mountains clustering about it, the Great Stone Face seemed positively to be alive.

Perhaps they saw, glorifying that mute head, guarding its work with all its weight, the nobility of a life spent in honorable labor.

She stood for a moment, radiant, while the chorus of many voices throbbed around herher face like an angel's for joy and lovea glorified vision in the parting rays of the evening sunthen her faint fluttering breath died in a Benedicite!

It touched the high-lights of the time-darkened, rough furniture, it picked out the brasses, it glorified the whitewashed walls.

Even when he crosses swords with us his thoughts are not as our thoughts; when we both glorify war, we are glorifying different things.

"The Eve of St. Agnes," the most perfect of Keats's mediæval poems, is not a story after the manner of the metrical romances, but rather a vivid painting of a romantic mood, such as comes to all men, at times, to glorify a workaday world.

143 collocations for  glorifying