in all one's glory

Example Sentences

• "But, little by little, the blackness wanes into gray, the gray warms into crimson; long streaks of light shoot across the brightening sky, while the morning mists roll off like the smoke of a battle; till at last up rises the sun in all his glory, revealing the bare undulating moor with its thin herbge, the bold rocky ridge that bounds it to the right, the great dome of the Mount of Temptation in the background, and far away to the front, the long narrow line of grayish-white that marks the shore of the still hidden Dead Sea."
• ""We are told,” says Professor Balfour, “that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these lilies."
• "The North American Indian brave on the war path was as vain of his war paint and aureole of feathers as Beau Brummell in all his glory was vain of his clothes and his wig."
• "True, the cowboy still remained, dressed in all his glory when he came off the range or hit town at the end of the long trail."
• "She quickly dressed for fear that someone would walk through the shower door and see her in all her glory."
• "The Olympic athlete wore no clothes, and those of us who have gone to the Eisenhower Theater remember that out in front on the mezzanine floor is the statue of the Greek god that was rescued from the depths of the ocean, and he's out there in all his glory in the nude."