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group of legislators or more broadly
For the German his party is in the narrower sense a group of legislators, or, more broadly, these legislators together with the general body of their constituents.
— from The Americans by Hugo Münsterberg

Gap our line of march being
The Ninth Corps was ordered to follow the old Sharpsburg road through Fox's Gap, our line of march being thus parallel to the others till we should reach the road from Boonsboro to Sharpsburg.
— from Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1: April 1861-November 1863 by Jacob D. (Jacob Dolson) Cox

gleam of light over my behavior
I perceive, moreover, that the confession, brief as it shall be, will throw a gleam of light over my behavior throughout the foregoing incidents, and is, indeed, essential to the full understanding of my story.
— from The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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