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and grasp every secret the

This sensitiveness of mine is furnished with psychological antennæ, wherewith I feel and grasp every secret: the quality of concealed filth lying at the base of many a human character which may be the inevitable outcome of base blood, and which education may have veneered, is revealed to me at the first glance.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

always give equal satisfaction to

At other times : It is hinted that his outspokenness will not in the future always give equal satisfaction to those who hear.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

and glazing eye showed that

It’s laboured breathing and glazing eye showed that it was not far from its end.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

and glinting everywhere seating them

By this time the peeresses are flowing in in a glittering stream, and the satin-clad officials are flitting and glinting everywhere, seating them and making them comfortable.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

a gift evidently showing that

Which may be rendered (1) "V. Quintus of Aruntia, to Culpian pleasing, a gift"; (2) "V. Quintus of Aruntia to Vulcan pleasing gave a gift," evidently showing that they were ex voto offerings.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

a gallant emprize since the

“thou hast painted a hero; surely they rest but to refresh their force, or to provide the means of crossing the moat—Under such a leader as thou hast spoken this knight to be, there are no craven fears, no cold-blooded delays, no yielding up a gallant emprize; since the difficulties which render it arduous render it also glorious.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

a gentle eminence sloping to

It seemed many years before the ‘bus stopped before a brick building full of quart pots, situated upon a gentle eminence sloping to a coal-yard, and the voice of the conductor proclaimed that the place of repose was reached.
— from The Prophet of Berkeley Square by Robert Hichens

and growing ever since Tom

It had been growing and growing ever since Tom had "taken on" at the well, and to-night it seemed to have reached its height, and Annie longed most intensely for morning.
— from The Water-Finders by Judith Vandeleur

a general elliptical shape the

The Weather Chart for 7 A.M. , March 12th , shows the line, or trough, with isobars closely crowded together southward of Block Island, but still of a general elliptical shape, the lower portion of the line swinging eastward toward Bermuda, and carrying with it violent squalls of rain and hail far below the 35th parallel.
— from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. I., No. 1, October, 1888 by Various

and General Ewing sounded the

The Legislature opened its special session (I was there as a spectator), and General Ewing sounded the tocsin of war.
— from The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him by Francis F. (Francis Fisher) Browne

an get em so that

"My old gal" (so the discourse proceeded)—"my old gal used to go out an' get 'em," so that the pig might have a dry bed; in which care the "old gal" contrasted nobly with "Will Crawte down 'ere," who had little pigs at this time "up to their belly in slurry."
— from Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer: A Record of the Last Years of Frederick Bettesworth by George Sturt

any great extent seeking the

If we give a distinguished place amongst these, to the amusements which the Museum, and many private circles afford, we must at the same time admit that particular circumstances prevent the students to any great extent seeking the latter.
— from The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt

and gleaming eyes still turned

The child was caught away from the surprised Mac, and the furs so closely gathered round the small shrunken body that there was once more nothing visible but the wistful yellow face and gleaming eyes, still turned searchingly on its most recent acquaintance.
— from The Magnetic North by Elizabeth Robins

a glorious evening said the

"This is a glorious evening," said the king, "and we will enjoy it gloriously."
— from Berlin and Sans-Souci; Or, Frederick the Great and His Friends by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

a great expanse seems to

§ 54 The freedom of a great expanse seems to arouse primitive instincts.
— from Of Walks and Walking Tours: An Attempt to find a Philosophy and a Creed by Arnold Haultain

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