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guise of the hero of

True, such a character contains an element of ugliness, and the same reader who, on his journey through life, would sit at the board of a character of this kind, and spend a most agreeable time with him, would be the first to look at him askance if he should appear in the guise of the hero of a novel or a play.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

given of this having occurred

Instances, also, could be given of this having occurred during floods, without any change of level.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

gets over those he overcomes

Thirdly, The power a conqueror gets over those he overcomes in a just war, is perfectly despotical: he has an absolute power over the lives of those, who, by putting themselves in a state of war, have forfeited them; but he has not thereby a right and title to their possessions.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

glory or the happiness of

Regardless of the public opinion, he indulged his passions without remorse, and without resistance; and his malignant and rapacious spirit rejected every passion that might have contributed to his own glory, or the happiness of the people.
— 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

gate opposite the house of

,” said an old woman in the middle of the hall, whose form was so concealed beneath her garments that one would have pronounced her a walking heap of rags; “Messeigneurs, the thing is as true as that I am la Falourdel, established these forty years at the Pont Saint Michel, and paying regularly my rents, lord’s dues, and quit rents; at the gate opposite the house of Tassin-Caillart, the dyer, which is on the side up the river—a poor old woman now, but a pretty maid in former days, my lords.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

greatness or the happiness of

Thus intellectual authority will be different, but it will not be diminished; and far from thinking that it will disappear, I augur that it may readily acquire too much preponderance, and confine the action of private judgment within narrower limits than are suited either to the greatness or the happiness of the human race.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

go over the history of

Shall I go over the history of the hours of that night?
— from Life in the Iron-Mills; Or, The Korl Woman by Rebecca Harding Davis

gave over the hopes of

But when I had done this, I was unable to stir it up again, or to get under it, much less to move it forward towards the water; so I was forced to give it over; and yet, though I gave over the hopes of the boat, my desire to venture over for the main increased, rather than decreased, as the means for it seemed impossible.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

glad of the honour of

Then, entering the parlour, I heard him say, “I am sorry, Madam, I made you wait; but I have an engagement which now calls me away: however, if you have any commands for me, I shall be glad of the honour of your company some other time.”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

grace of the hand of

No one who was fortunate enough to observe the slender, tapering fingers and singular grace of the hand of the deceased Poet Laureate could possibly believe it the extremity of a coarse or narrow-minded person.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 05, Issue 26, February 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

glory of the house of

Keep at it, but work as you will while I am lying here in bed, you can't do anything for the glory of the house of Muhlingk.
— from Honor: A Play in Four Acts by Hermann Sudermann

gathered on the heights of

On the wall hung a crucifix and an ancient gift of Giovanni's, a withered garland of flowers gathered on the heights of Fiesole in those days when he sat at the feet of Savonarola.
— from The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci, the Forerunner by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

Gentlemen of the House of

Gentlemen of the House of Representatives: I have directed an estimate of the appropriations which will be necessary for the service of the ensuing year to be laid before you, accompanied with a view of the public receipts and expenditures to a recent period.
— from State of the Union Addresses by John Adams

guilt of the highest official

" By the custom of the country, therefore, the guilt of the highest official is assumed whenever any disturbance of the peace takes place or crime is committed [442] within his government.
— from The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era, Vol. 2 (of 2) As Illustrated in the Career of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., D.C.L., Many Years Consul and Minister in China and Japan by Alexander Michie

girl of today has on

But a man who marries the young girl of today has on his hands an utterly useless incubus.
— from The Girl Philippa by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

give only to his own

I think it one of the greatest evils that can befall a Christian, that he should become so narrow-minded as to give only to his own church, and think only of his own church’s missions.
— from The Gorilla Hunters by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

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