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of grass gleaming like emeralds

All that low, swampy country was lush and green that April morning, with patches of grass gleaming like emeralds in the wetness of sunken places and unexpected pools of marsh water gleaming out of the distances like sapphires.
— from The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Oswald George Grenville Lord Egmont

[144] Campbell, Charles Townshend, Lord George Sackville, Henry Conway, Legge, Sir George Lyttelton, Oswald, George Grenville, Lord Egmont, Nugent, Doddington, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, Lord Strange, Beckford, Elliot, Lord Barrington, Sir George Lee, Martin, Dr. Hay, Northey, Potter, Ellis, Lord Hilsborough, Lord Duplin, and Sir Francis Dashwood, these men, perhaps, in their several degrees, comprehended all the various powers of eloquence, art, reasoning, satire, learning, persuasion, wit, business, spirit, and plain common sense.
— from Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second, Volume 2 (of 3) by Horace Walpole

of grammars Greek Latin English

13.—For the teaching of different languages, it has been thought very desirable to have "a Series of grammars, Greek, Latin, English, &c., all, so far as general principles are concerned, upon the same plan, and as nearly in the same words as the genius of the languages would permit.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

of girls growing larger every

A great throng of girls, growing larger every moment, was congregated in the hall, cheering wildly.
— from Head of the Lower School by Dorothea Moore

of grained glass looked extremely

The cell was small and old, the walls and ceiling were dirty, the window of grained glass looked extremely dingy; but Mrs. Lawrence said that in all probability we should eventually be put into new and very clean cells.
— from Prisons & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences by Lytton, Constance, Lady

our grand guard line established

We encamped within about six miles of Corinth, and had our grand guard line established to within about three miles of Corinth.
— from Three Years in the Service A Record of the Doings of the 11th Reg. Missouri Vols. by D. McCall

only great good luck extricated

This was flattering to the Overland, but it led us into future difficulties from which only great good luck extricated us.
— from Raiders of the Sarhad Being an Account of the Campaign of Arms and Bluff Against the Brigands of the Persian-Baluchi Border during the Great War by R. E. H. (Reginald Edward Harry) Dyer

ostrones gryfandos gentiles Laueroys et

Et quoniam Imperator habet satis plures quàm decem mille Elephantes edomitos, et velut vltrà numerum alias bestias, (quarum quædam tenentur in caueis, stabulis mirabilibus, vel catenis) nec non et aues rapaces, et accipitres, falcones, ostrones, gryfandos gentiles, Laueroys, et
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Richard Hakluyt

Orange Grafton Groton Lyme Enfield

During this time he was intent upon securing the advantages of a college education, and with this end in view he taught school, during the winter, in Orange, Grafton, Groton, Lyme, Enfield, and Amherst, and pursued his preparatory studies at Canaan and Boscawen academies, and under the tuition of Prof. William Russell at the Normal Institute at Reed's Ferry.
— from Sketches of Successful New Hampshire Men by Various

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