Adjective : inglorious retreat. From Dictionary.com.
"Well, Sarah, old Brigham was not sick at all -- only 'ingloriously' drunk.". From Wordnik.com. [Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans"] Reference
Go I must, for it is not manly to die ingloriously. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.] Reference
Thus, ingloriously, they descended the glassy stair. From Wordnik.com. [The Source of Magic]
This army then having been ingloriously broken up, the. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Herodotus] Reference
He was lately a match for a maid, and contended not ingloriously. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
An instrument of the will of the gods did not die so ingloriously. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness of the Light] Reference
Each time she had attempted to injure them she had been ingloriously defeated. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference
But when the same thing is attempted by unskilful hands it fails ingloriously. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Becky, in contrast to Aunt Claudia's smartness, showed up rather ingloriously. From Wordnik.com. [The Trumpeter Swan] Reference
And he basically compared the area somewhat ingloriously to Chicago of the 1920s. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 3, 2007] Reference
He is a useless burden on the earth like an incapacitated bull and perisheth ingloriously. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
Though the one under his immediate command failed ingloriously the other proved more fortunate. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
It is a pity they do not lend them to the actors, instead of allowing them to perish ingloriously. From Wordnik.com. [Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark] Reference
"The enemy," said the order, "must now come out and fight us on our ground, or retreat ingloriously.". From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865] Reference
New Dems ingloriously worked for banks in weakening judges ability to adjust mortgages in bankruptcy. From Wordnik.com. [Robert L. Borosage: Time to Dog the Dogs] Reference
Historian Robert Kirk wrote, "Lee neither flew ingloriously nor gave battle on his enemy's chosen ground.". From Wordnik.com. [Israel, Hezbollah and the Lessons for the U.S. Military] Reference
Mr. Sanderson is determined to get a conviction where our former district attorney most ingloriously failed. From Wordnik.com. [Murder at Bridge] Reference
New Dems ingloriously worked for banks in weakening the ability of judges to adjust mortgages in bankruptcy. From Wordnik.com. [Time To Dog The Dogs] Reference
So, the herald was a decided failure, and the crowd hooted with great energy, as he pranced ingloriously away. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches by Boz] Reference
We are not out to be ingloriously taken prisoner, we were simply travelling on business, being compelled to do so. From Wordnik.com. [Five Months on a German Raider Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf'] Reference
In a 43-year run I've gotten a few things right about politics, but I was ingloriously wrong about Schwarzenegger. From Wordnik.com. [George Mitrovich: California: Failed State] Reference
Should he escape, but escape ingloriously — ah, then he should know what the devotion of a woman could do for a man!. From Wordnik.com. [Phineas Redux] Reference
They choked back their tears and fell to with an appetite on beans and onions ingloriously mixed with bread and gravy. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference
Her whole impulsive nature crept back upon itself, abashed -- like something discarded, flung at her feet ingloriously. From Wordnik.com. [The Furnace of Gold] Reference
The campaign of 1512 ended ingloriously, and the French king threatened to turn the tables on Henry and to invade England. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
The summer was gone, and Gen. McClellan, instead of "taking Richmond," had closed his campaign on the Peninsula most ingloriously. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
Gaul, were ingloriously overthrown, and, indeed, by their faint resistance, chiefly gave them the impulse of marching towards Rome. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
"By Jove, old man, do you think we'll win?" asked Cosey Campbell, as he came to the bench after ingloriously striking out, and looked at Joe. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe in the Big League or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles] Reference
Frightened out of their wits, the bears forsook the acorn field and fled ingloriously to their secret haunts in the mountains to the westward. From Wordnik.com. [Our Boys Entertaining Stories by Popular Authors] Reference
Slay me, if it seems thee good; I will not die ingloriously; but better yield to what I say, that thou mayst act with justice, and I regain my wife. From Wordnik.com. [Helen] Reference
When she was almost at her wit's end, and tempted to flee ingloriously in search of Olive, that lady entered and Claire felt as if saved from lunacy. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
I would not yield, but to the last gasp resolutely defended my dear ones against sorrow and pain; and if I were vanquished at last, it should not be ingloriously. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Man] Reference
He halts — suspends his clamorous yelping, and, in fine, ingloriously retreats to his master, with, all the dishonourable marks of positively declining the combat. From Wordnik.com. [Count Robert of Paris] Reference
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