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ground not even striving to

And I remained there standing, uneasy, keeping my eyes on the ground, not even striving to conceal my mortification, which was, after all, very natural in such a position.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Gentilibus non exterminabitur sed tempestatibus

Roma a Gentilibus non exterminabitur sed tempestatibus, coruscis turbinibus ac terrae motu in semetipsa marces cet.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

give no explanation save that

He could give no explanation save that it was about the time when the woman always went home.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

grey noncommittal eyes she thought

Now as she looked at Bobby, who had gone straight to his mother's knee, and stood biting his small fist, and regarding her solemnly out of grey, noncommittal eyes, she thought, "Why not!
— from Shadows of Flames: A Novel by Amélie Rives

great Nevile ever spares the

Knowest thou not that Richard of Warwick, the great Nevile, ever spares the commons?
— from The Last of the Barons — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Goshen now Esh Shurkiyeh the

Southeast of the Pelusiac branch lay the Land of Goshen (now Esh Shurkiyeh ), the home of the Israelites during the Sojourn.
— from Bible Atlas: A Manual of Biblical Geography and History by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

grace nor ever submitted to

Gentlemen, I never relished acts of grace, nor ever submitted to them but from despair of better.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Gonzaga Nay even suppose that

Gonzaga .—Nay, even suppose that the event should not answer our expectations?
— from The Bravo of Venice: A Romance by Heinrich Zschokke

George not exactly seeing the

George, not exactly seeing the connection, rubbed his nose with his forefinger, and replied—“Certainly not.”
— from The Red Eric by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

great Nevile ever spares the

Knowest thou not that Richard of Warwick, the great Nevile, ever spares the commons? Begone!
— from The Last of the Barons — Volume 01 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

granite now expanded sufficiently to

As the travellers proceeded, the road, which had lately been pent within the huge masses of granite, now expanded sufficiently to allow them a little side-by-side discourse; and the first-mentioned person pushed forward to renew a conversation which seemed to have been interrupted by the inequalities of the narrow pathway.
— from The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 36, March 6, 1841 by Various

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