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Triumphal

adjective

Relating to or celebrating a triumph. "A triumphal arch"

Joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success. Synonyms: exultant, exulting, jubilant, prideful, rejoicing, triumphant. "A triumphal success" , "A triumphant shout"

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"Triumphal" Quotes from Famous Books

... the calm and silent night! The senator of haughty Rome Impatient urged his chariot's flight, From lordly revel rolling home. Triumphal arches gleaming swell His breast with thoughts of boundless sway; What recked the Roman what befell A paltry province far away, In ...

— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 1 (of 4) • Various

... should have disguised Mile End in bunting and blue fire. But perhaps it's a compliment. He knows his London, and it's no use trying to hide the facts from him. They must have queer notions of cities, those monarchs. They must fancy everybody lives in a flutter of flags and walks about under triumphal arches, like as if I were to stitch shoes in my Sunday clothes." By a defiance of chronology Crowl had them on to-day, and they ...

— The Big Bow Mystery • I. Zangwill

... his triumphal entrance into Rome, he had his statue erected upon the forum with the labarum in his right hand, and the inscription beneath: 'By this saving sign, the true token of bravery, I have delivered your ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... was soothing Gertrude, to whom the shock had been in proportion to the triumphal heights of her careless gaiety. Charles Cheviot had come in while his wife was restoring her; and he had plainly said what no one else would have intimated to the spoilt darling—that the whole accident had been owing to her recklessness, and that he ...

— The Trial - or, More Links of the Daisy Chain • Charlotte M. Yonge

... from its cradle in the snowy Alps to its grave in the sands of Holland, which boasts not its peculiar charms. By heavens! If I were a German I would be proud of it too; and of the clustering grapes, that hang about its temples, as it reels onward through vineyards, in a triumphal march, like Bacchus, ...

— Hyperion • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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