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gone about far enough to
They were sure they had kept straight on for the mouth of the cave, and had gone about far enough to have reached it.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

good and for effectuating thereof
His advice was found very good, and for effectuating thereof he brought forth his army into the plain field, and placed the reserves on the skirt or rising of a little hill.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

grace and fashion even to
She is unwilling to sacrifice grace and fashion, even to gain her rights; albeit, too, that this grace is an absurd conventionalism and that this fashion is infinite folly.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

gibbet a fact easy to
On one occasion only it was necessary to replace fifty-two chains, which were useless; and the accounts of the city of Paris prove that the expense of executions was more heavy than that of the maintenance of the gibbet, a fact easy to be understood if one recalls to mind the frequency of capital sentences during the Middle Ages.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

gives a fitting expression to
But he has discovered a use of language in which they are united; which gives a fitting expression to the highest truths; and in which the trifles of courtesy and the familiarities of daily life are not overlooked.
— from Gorgias by Plato

good and for evil though
Camilla was struck with alarm at hearing what Lothario said, and with much anger, and great good sense, she reproved him and rebuked his base design and the foolish and mischievous resolution he had made; but as woman has by nature a nimbler wit than man for good and for evil, though it is apt to fail when she sets herself deliberately to reason, Camilla on the spur of the moment thought of a way to remedy what was to all appearance irremediable, and told Lothario to contrive that the next day Anselmo should conceal himself in the place he mentioned, for she hoped from his concealment to obtain the means of their enjoying themselves for the future without any apprehension; and without revealing her purpose to him entirely she charged him to be careful, as soon as Anselmo was concealed, to come to her when Leonela should call him, and to all she said to him to answer as he would have answered had he not known that Anselmo was listening.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

great and flourishing estate to
325 These words (holpen a little with a metaphor) may express two different abilities in those that deal in business of estate; for if a true survey be taken of counsellors and statesmen, there may be found (though rarely) those which can make a small state great, and yet cannot fiddle: as, on the other side there will be found a great many that can fiddle very cunningly, but yet are so far from being able to make a small state great, as their gift lieth the other way,—to bring a great and flourishing estate to ruin and decay.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

give a formal existence to
Orthoepists define the verb to constitute, as signifying "to give a formal existence to anything."
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

genii and fairies every thing
Fancy might picture a spot so silent and solemn as this, as the abode of genii and fairies, every thing conducing to render it grand, melancholy, and venerable, and the glen wanted only a dilapidated castle, a rock with a cave in it, or something of the kind, to render it the most interesting place in the universe.
— from Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger From unpublished documents in the possession of the late Capt. John William Barber Fullerton ... with a prefatory analysis of the previous travels of Park, Denham, Clapperton, Adams, Lyon, Ritchie, &c. into the hitherto unexplored countries of Africa by Robert Huish

great a fool even to
‘This fellow’s a rogue, and too great a fool even to make up a tale that’ll hang together.
— from The Nebuly Coat by John Meade Falkner

going about from engine to
Indeed, in going about from engine to engine I found the following dialogue repeated over and over again: "Ever in a collision?"
— from Careers of Danger and Daring by Cleveland Moffett

gives a fine edge to
It has a very compact texture, is heavy, translucent, and gives a fine edge to a razor.
— from Scenes and Adventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

giving a few entertainments there
In 1852, after a long series of performances, which I had been giving in Germany, I stopped at that charming little place, Spa, with the double intention of giving a few entertainments there, and also of getting a little rest after my fatiguing tour.
— from The Sharper Detected and Exposed by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin

gave a ferocious eloquence to
Villefort pronounced these last words with a feverish rage, which gave a ferocious eloquence to his words.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

give a few extracts to
I will give a few extracts to show the foundation upon which Southern society has been erected.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

gained a furtive entrance to
It was well they did not, or I should have sunk with the dread of being mistaken for a thief; that had gained a furtive entrance, to load himself with some parcel of the magnificence that to poverty appeared so tempting!
— from The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Thomas Holcroft

granted and faithlessly executed the
By this concession, reluctantly granted and faithlessly executed, the first recognition was made of the existence of a large and powerful body of dissidents from the Roman Catholic Church.
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird


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