Meanings of chief glories in English

His odes are among the chief glories of the English language.

Among the chief glories that belong to him are these:

Standardization, due to the machine tool, is one of the chief glories of American manufacturing.

This Government spells ruin, and will count it one of its chief glories if we come to grief.

But it is a good shop, and one of the chief glories of the Paris of the Five Towns.

The vibrant red that seems to give throbbing life to these beautiful towers is one of the chief glories of the night-glow.

The young man panted as he reached the top of the Maze, one of the chief glories of the old Abbaye grounds.

It should be said here, for the sake of clearness, that one of the chief glories of Castel Casteggio lay in its servants.

The brilliant soldier who conceived it was the chivalrous Englishman who conquered Scinde, one of the chief glories of the Britannic hierarchy of soldier-saints.

Another artist of Dort was Jan Terween Aertz, born in 1511, whose carvings in the choir of the Groote Kerk are among its chief glories.