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good reply address is laid
The 'good' reply address is laid out in the 'From:' header.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

glanced round as if looking
But Natásha stayed by her mother and glanced round as if looking for something.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

gravel rested although it looked
In places, banks of small gravel rested, although it looked as if a disturbing foot would send down the stones.
— from Northwest! by Harold Bindloss

gave Rhoda an inscrutable look
" Kut-le gave Rhoda an inscrutable look, but she did not tell him that she shared his surprise.
— from The Heart of the Desert Kut-Le of the Desert by Honoré Morrow

Garden Reverie A I L
Garden Reverie , A. I. L. Cosham.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, December 1882 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Promotion of True Culture. Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle by Chautauqua Institution

Gospel revealing an immortal life
Then think how much He has done for us; how he has given us our parents and friends, and all the dear and delightful objects of life, thought, and hope; and more than this, has given us Jesus, and with him the glorious Gospel, revealing an immortal life and a glorious inheritance beyond the Jordan of death.
— from Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. by G. S. (George Sumner) Weaver

Genoa remained as Imperial legate
Uguccione della Faggiuola, the Imperial Vicar of Genoa, remained, as Imperial legate, Podestà, Captain of the People, and Elector, bringing with him one thousand German horse.
— from Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations in Colour by William Parkinson and Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition by Edward Hutton

Golden Rule and in less
Lao-Tse taught the Golden Rule, and in less than three centuries the ignorant masses had made him into a real and very cruel God and had buried his wise commandments under a rubbish-heap of superstition which made the lives of the average Chinese one long series of frights and fears and horrors.
— from The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon


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