Example Sentences

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It may be the playwright's "molten fury that welds mind to mind, heart to heart," and so forth, but it is cold, hard, unglorious cash that pays the lighting bills.

From Time Magazine Archive

I envy thee, old man, and I envy that man who has passed through a life without danger, unknown, unglorious; but I less envy those in honor.

From The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides

But if my dull and frozen blood deny To send forth spirits that raise a soul so high; In the next place, let woods and rivers be My quiet, though unglorious, destiny.

From Cowley's Essays by Cowley, Abraham