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 Charles Reade
"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 E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
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 Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
"Go, my Philippe," said I; "go to glory."
From Olla Podrida by Frederick Marryat
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 Henry Leach
