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of Letters is no great

Of Speech The Invention of Printing, though ingenious, compared with the invention of Letters, is no great matter.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

of love is not given

But to eradicate from the heart the powerful principle of love is not given, I believe, to woman.
— from The Young Maiden by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey

Our labor is not good

Our labor is not good; our best Hopes fade; our heart is stayed on lies:
— from Poems by Christina Georgina Rossetti

Our labour is not good

50 Our labour is not good; our best Hopes fade; our heart is stayed on lies: Verily, we sow wind; and we Shall reap the whirlwind, verily.
— from Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems by Christina Georgina Rossetti

often lying in narrow gorges

The valleys are smaller and more numerous, often lying in narrow gorges and woody ravines between the hills, hardly discernable from the distance.
— from Lancashire Sketches Third Edition by Edwin Waugh

or less is no good

“More or less is no good.
— from Fathers of Men by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

on Long Island near Gravesend

It was not until after the Declaration of Independence by the Congress, the wild enthusiasm it excited throughout the colonies, and the repeated declination of Washington to confer with Howe as a private citizen, that our Chief received word the British Commander was landing troops on Long Island, near Gravesend.
— from The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Our liberty is neither Greek

Our liberty is neither Greek nor Roman; but essentially English.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 331, September 13, 1828 by Various

others live in Northern Georgia

Their population is about 1600; others live in Northern Georgia.
— from A Migration Legend of the Creek Indians, vol. 1 With a Linguistic, Historic and Ethnographic Introduction by Albert S. (Albert Samuel) Gatschet

of land in North Germany

It included Sweden, Norway, Denmark and a strip of land in North Germany (Mecklenburg), Northern England, Man, most of the Western Scottish
— from Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law Being an Essay Supplemental to (1) 'The English Village Community', (2) 'The Tribal System in Wales' by Frederic Seebohm

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