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Grundy is given no
Even though she has a father, unless he devotes his entire time to her, she must also have a resident chaperon who protects her reputation until she is married or old enough to protect it herself—which is not until she has reached a fairly advanced age, of perhaps thirty years or over if she is alone, or twenty-six or so if she lives in her father's house and behaves with such irreproachable circumspection that Mrs. Grundy is given no chance to set tongues wagging.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Greece Italy Germany not
We are by nature Aryan, Indo-European, not Semitic: our spiritual kith and kin are to be found in India, Persia, Greece, Italy, Germany: not in Mesopotamia, Egypt, or Palestine.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

gold import goldene Note
Golddeckung gold cover Golddeckung gold coverage Goldeinfuhr gold import goldene Note golden touch Goldklausel gold clause Goldkurs gold rate Goldkurs rate of gold Goldmark gold mark Goldmarkt bullion market Goldminen; Goldbergwerke gold mines Goldmünze gold coin Goldmünzen gold coins Goldoption gold option Goldparität gold parity Goldpreis gold price Goldpreis price of gold Goldreserven gold reserves Goldreserven holdings of gold Goldstandard gold standard Goldstück gold piece Goldüberschuss surplus gold Goldwert gold value Goldzufluss gold inflow Gotteslästerung blasphemy Grad der Abhängigkeit degree of dependence Grad der Automatisierung degree of automation Grad der Computerisierung degree of computerization Grad der Genauigkeit degree of accuracy Grad der Mechanisierung degree of mechanization Grad der Nutzung degree of utilization Grad der Priorität degree of priority Grad der Tauglichkeit degree of fitness Grad der Wahrscheinlichkeit degree of probability Gradierung; Abstufung gradation Graduierung; Einstufung grading grafische Gestaltung graphic design Grafschaft county graphisch darstellen; graphische Darstellung chart graphische Darstellung graph graphische Darstellung der Mehrplatzarbeit multiple activity chart graphischer Ideengestalter visualizer Gratifikation gratuity Gratifikation; Zuwendung gratuity gratis cost free gratis free of cost Gratisaktie bonus share Gratisangebot free deal Gratisanzeige; unberechnete Anzeige free advertisement
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

gathered in great numbers
When they had got as far the deep-meadowed and rush-grown banks of the Aesopus, the Achaeans sent Tydeus as their envoy, and he found the Cadmeans gathered in great numbers to a banquet in the house of Eteocles.
— from The Iliad by Homer

got in great numbers
As for those that ran out of the village, they stirred up such as were in the country, and exaggerating their own calamities, and telling them that the whole army of the Romans were upon them, they put them into great fear on every side; so they got in great numbers together, and fled to Jericho, for they knew no other place that could afford them any hope of escaping, it being a city that had a strong wall, and a great multitude of inhabitants.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

gentleman into great notice
This sentiment, as compressing the general question into a nutshell, gave the utmost satisfaction, and brought the gentleman into great notice until the ladies retired.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

gēt I gǣt nap
= ȳstende get = geat gēt I. = gǣt nap.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

grow in great numbers
Next after these Auschisai towards the West come the Nasamonians, a numerous race, who in the summer leave their flocks behind by the sea and go up to the region of Augila to gather the fruit of the date-palms, which grow in great numbers and very large and are all fruit-bearing: these hunt the wingless locusts, and they dry them in the sun and then pound them up, and after that they sprinkle them upon milk and drink them.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

get in gaudy Nevada
How sunburnt with blushes I used to get in gaudy Nevada, every time I thought of my first financial experience in Salt Lake.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

go in great numbers
They could go in great numbers over, but the English must stop.
— from Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary White Rowlandson

grateful in general No
" "Do you think people are grateful, in general?" "No, Miss Rolleston, I do not.
— from Foul Play by Dion Boucicault

glow in great numbers
In the past she and I had seldom spoken to each other, owing to the fact that her “one remaining joy”—her charming little Karl—had never succeeded in kindling into flame those sparks of maternity which are supposed to glow in great numbers upon the altar of every respectable female heart; but, in view of a premeditated journey together, we became delightfully cordial.
— from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield

girls in Gibraltar never
but I dont know what kind of drawers he likes none at all I think didnt he say yes and half the girls in Gibraltar never wore them either naked as God made them that Andalusian singing her Manola she didnt make much secret of what she hadnt
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Grail is gone now
"The Temple of the Grail is gone now.
— from The Wagner Story Book: Firelight Tales of the Great Music Dramas by William Henry Frost

Guilding in great numbers
This noble species was discovered by Mr. Guilding, in great numbers, upon the trunks and branches of trees in the forests of St Vincent: its eggs are hard like those of a bird, and the young shell resembles that of a Succinea .
— from Zoological Illustrations, Second Series, Volume 3 or, Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson

game is gone now
The big game is gone now.
— from The Lure of the Mississippi by D. (Dietrich) Lange

grows in great numbers
A species of small barrel-cactus about the size of a man's head, with fluted sides, or symmetrical vertical rows of small thorned lumps converging at the top of the "nigger-head," as they are sometimes called, grows in great numbers in crevices on the walls.
— from Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico by E. L. (Ellsworth Leonardson) Kolb


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