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galería a una localidad especialmente
En Chile y Argentina se llama cazuela y en Méjico galería a una localidad especialmente destinada a las señoras.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

gross and ungentlemanly legal expressions
This case, however, was only a simple one on the money counts —a mere matter of assumpsit , in which all the gross and ungentlemanly legal expressions used in law declarations on assumpsits were totally avoided—such as “intending thereby to deceive and defraud:”—language which, though legal , a Galway gentleman would as soon eat his horse as put up with from his equal—though he would bear it from a shopkeeper with sovereign indifference.
— from Personal Sketches of His Own Times, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Barrington, Jonah, Sir

gestures and uttering loud exclamations
Four bare-legged dairymaids, with each an empty milk-pail in her hand, ran about with frantic gestures, and uttering loud exclamations of surprise, grief, and resentment.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott

gay and unprofitable life Eyo
While he had been living this gay and unprofitable life, Eyo I. had been working harder than ever at his father's old trade, and had made many trips to Rio del Rey himself.
— from Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa by Elphinstone Dayrell

gestures and uttering loud exclamations
Four bare-legged dairy-maids, with each an empty milk-pail in her hand, ran about with frantic gestures, and uttering loud exclamations of surprise, grief, and resentment.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott

give an unrepresented litigant every
" "But surely one can rely on the judge dealing fairly with a man who is unable to afford a solicitor and counsel?" "Undoubtedly, as a rule, a judge will give an unrepresented litigant every assistance and consideration.
— from The Vanishing Man A Detective Romance by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman

glass and Uncle Luke exclaiming
As she went on her wonder deepened, and her excitement grew—for she passed little towns, then big stations covered with shining pictures, like palaces—until at length when she felt deep in Dreamland, they glided under a great arch of glass, and Uncle Luke, exclaiming ‘Here we be,’ rose up and prepared to alight from the train.
— from The Martyrdom of Madeline by Robert Williams Buchanan

give an unrepresented litigant every
"Undoubtedly, as a rule, a judge will give an unrepresented litigant every assistance and consideration.
— from The Eye of Osiris by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman

Gudrun and Ursula laughing excited
Gudrun and Ursula, laughing, excited, felt the eyes of all the men upon them, and they lifted their heads and looked nowhere, and felt royal.
— from Women in Love by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence


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