Its main purpose was to give the Gothic ruling class a glorious past, to match the past of the senatorial families of Roman Italy.

Its name means blessing and glorious.

Its record was glorious, and many mourned its passing.

Its aim was to promote rugby at school level in an attempt to regain ' the glorious days of Gwyn Nicholls, Willie Llewellyn and Dr E. T.

Its name was taken from Book of Ezekiel 17: 8, meaning " glorious " in the phrase " glorious vine ", a symbol of reborn Israel.

Its glorious interior is just beginning to be seen by a wider audience after decades of semi-obscurity.

Its importance waned somewhat when the French king, Charles VII, took the city at the end of the Hundred Years ' War and the Adour changed course shortly afterwards, leaving Bayonne without its access to the sea.

In due course, the barbarians overran the Western Roman Empire: Its emperors retreated to Ravenna, and it diminished to nothing.

Its content, of course, makes it clear how popular such poems were:

Its waters, for much of its course, flow through a channel considerably lower than the surface of the ground.

Its sinuous course essentially cuts Luxembourg from east to west.

Its course forms the northern borders of West Virginia and Kentucky ; and the southern borders of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, until it joins the Mississippi River near the city of Cairo, Illinois.

Its course has been dotted with both violent opposition and with slavish, unquestioning acceptance.

Its course is today divided into seven sections.

Its course is 225 km long, receiving contributions from the Rivers Jualón, Torrejón, Riánsares, Amarguillo and Záncara.

Its monetary liabilities are liabilities only in name, as they are irredeemable: the holder of base money cannot insist at any time on the redemption of a given amount of base money into anything else other than the same amount of itself ( base money ) -- unless, of course, the holder of said base money is another central bank reclaiming the value of its original interest-free loan.

Its mile and a half main track is the largest dirt Thoroughbred race course in the world, and it has the sport's largest grandstand.

Its course and the Heathrow Airport slip road and its junction took much of Sipson Farm's remaining land.

Andrew Steinmetz, in The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, described it at greater length but somewhat confusingly ( the results of rolling a 10 are unclear, depending on whether it wins for the bank or is a push, there is house advantage is at best 0, and at worst negative, and the suggestion that it was played at the crucifixion is of course sheer speculation ):

Its course is marked by a stone and painted line in the Stadtgarten ( city park ).

Its attractions include a golf course, a weight room, and townhouses that resemble the city from about 70 years ago.

Its 18-hole golf course, designed by Walter J. Travis ( his last before he died ), opened in 1926.

Its course has been modified several times, with the first recorded being in 1236, as a result of flooding.

Its course has altered, as it originally flowed to Wisbech, which derives its name from the river, and historically, it has also been known as the River Stoke or Stoke River.

Its seven bays are divided by square Tuscan piers which support the frieze, cornice and blocking course.

Its attractions include many canal and locks, a park containing a sports centre, an outdoor skateboard park, tennis courts, a golf course, an aquarium / reptile house and a cricket ground.

It has its sources on the eastern slopes of the Andes in the latitude of the Chilean volcano Tinguiririca ( about 34 ° 48 ' S .), and pursues a general east-southeast course to the Atlantic Ocean, where it discharges about 100-120 kilometers south of Bahía Blanca, through several channels of a delta of the Unión Bay extending from latitude 39 ° 30 ' to 39 ° 50 ' S. Its total length is about, of which about, from the coast up to Pichi Mahuida, are navigable for vessels of up to 2 metres ( 7 ft ) draft.

Its upper course is rapid.

Its course takes it through the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and the river between Marlborough and Woolhampton is designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ).

Its course follows a generally southeasterly direction as it goes through the city of Utrecht towards Wijk bij Duurstede where it intersects the Lek branch of the Rhine and then continues on to the Waal river near Tiel, with a branch, the Lek Canal, to the Lek near Nieuwegein.

Its facilities include a 9 hole golf course designed by Donald Ross, a horse barn where the public can rent and ride horses, a beach with bathhouse, sprawling open fields, and a carousel building for functions.

Its front was windowless, but irregularities in the masonry might be an indication that windows, now blinded, had once looked out upon the street.

The husband points the steps out with his flashlight: `` Its white stare filling her pale eyes To the blind brim with appetite, Bleaching her hands that grazed my thighs And sent us from the table in surprise To let the dishes soak all night, '' ( Mary Jane asked herself if Meredith was blushing at this line, or was it the fire??

Its blade was dazzling in the intense sunlight.

Its ribs showed, it was a yellow nondescript color, it suffered from a variety of sores, hair had scabbed off its body in patches.

Its appeal from ballots to bullets at Fort Sumter ended by costing the Southerners their right to have slaves -- a right that was even less compatible with the sovereignty of man.

Its refrain was: `` let us return to the individualistic democracy of our forefathers for our salvation ''.

Its first apparition was a long, gloomy column of refugees riding in farm wagons, or pushing prams.

Its second press release was on January 15, 1958, and it recommended that the secret papers be destroyed.

Its climactic role was to pursue and demoralize a defeated enemy but this chance never came in the Atlanta campaign.

Its groin was bloody.

Its purpose was to find ways of offsetting the United States' declining balance of trade for 1958 and 1959.

During the last week of march 1961, Columbus, Ohio was the site of the Fourth Symposium on Temperature, Its Measurement And Control In Science And Industry.

Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.

Its building was first proposed in 1791, when a group of citizens, mostly Newburyport men, petitioned the General Court for an act of incorporation.

Its temperature was denoted by Af.

Its value was Af from the above data.

Its enforcement was enjoined by a federal trial court.

Its positive features outweighed the fact that the pool was an adjunct of a wouldbe monopoly.

Its power unit, however, was derived from the reactor of the more modern American nuclear submarine Skipjack.

Its form was a heavy figure in a fluttering soutane.

Its citizens spoke all of the world's surviving tongues, plus a new one called Lingo, a pidgin whose vocabulary was derived from the other six and whose syntax was so simple it could be contained on half a sheet of paper.