Quotes: G

Gabble

Forthwith a hideous gabble rises loud Among the builders.

Gabel

He enables St. Peter to pay his gabel by the ministry of a fish.

Gad

I will go get a leaf of brass, And with a gad of steel will write these words.

Flemish steel . . . some in bars and some in gads.

Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way?

Gadding

Envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets.

The good nuns would check her gadding tongue.

Gaffer

Go to each gaffer and each goody.

Gag

The time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged, and reason to be hood winked.

Mouths gagged to such a wideness.

Gage

Nor without gages to the needy lend.

A moiety competent Was gaged by our king.

Great debts Wherein my time, sometimes too prodigal, Hath left me gaged.

You shall not gage me By what we do to-night.

Gain

But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

Godliness with contentment is great gain.

Every one shall share in the gains.

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

To gain dominion, or to keep it gained.

For fame with toil we gain, but lose with ease.

If he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.

To gratify the queen, and gained the court.

Forded Usk and gained the wood.

Ye should . . . not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss.

Thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by extortion.

The English have not only gained upon the Venetians in the Levant, but have their cloth in Venice itself.

My good behavior had so far gained on the emperor, that I began to conceive hopes of liberty.

Gainsay

I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.

The just gods gainsay That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother, My sacred aunt, should by my mortal sword Be drained.

Gainstand

Durst . . . gainstand the force of so many enraged desires.

Gait

Good gentleman, go your gait, and let poor folks pass.

'T is Cinna; I do know him by his gait.

Gale

A little gale will soon disperse that cloud.

And winds of gentlest gale Arabian odors fanned From their soft wings.

The ladies, laughing heartily, were fast getting into what, in New England, is sometimes called a gale.

Galimatias

Her dress, like her talk, is a galimatias of several countries.

Galingale

Meadow, set with slender galingale.

Gall

He hath . . . compassed me with gall and travail.

Comedy diverted without gall.

I am loth to gall a new-healed wound.

They that are most galled with my folly, They most must laugh.

In our wars against the French of old, we used to gall them with our longbows, at a greater distance than they could shoot their arrows.

Gallant

The town is built in a very gallant place.

Our royal, good and gallant ship.

That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds.

The gay, the wise, the gallant, and the grave.

Gallantry

Guess the gallantry of our church by this . . . when the desk whereon the priest read was inlaid with plates of silver.

Helenus, Antenor, and all the gallantry of Troy.

Galleon

The galleons . . . were huge, round-stemmed, clumsy vessels, with bulwarks three or four feet thick, and built up at stem and stern, like castles.

Galliard

Selden is a galliard by himself.

Never a hall such a galliard did grace.

Galliardise

The mirth and galliardise of company.

Gallimaufry

Delighting in hodge-podge, gallimaufries, forced meat.

So in this installment I'd like to serve up a gallimaufry of tasty URLs that didn't quite fit anywhere else.

Galloon

Silver and gold galloons, with the like glittering gewgaws.

Gallop

But gallop lively down the western hill.

Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it.

Gallows

So they hanged Haman on the gallows.

If I hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows.

O, there were desolation of gaolers and gallowses!

At length him nailéd on a gallow tree.

Galoche

Nor were worthy [to] unbuckle his galoche.

Gambadoes

His thin legs tenanted a pair of gambadoes fastened at the side with rusty clasps.

Game

We have had pastimes here, and pleasant game.

But war's a game, which, were their subject wise, Kings would not play at.

Talk the game o'er between the deal.

Your murderous game is nearly up.

It was obviously Lord Macaulay's game to blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack.

Those species of animals . . . distinguished from the rest by the well-known appellation of game.

I was game . . . .I felt that I could have fought even to the death.

God loved he best with all his whole hearte At alle times, though him gamed or smarte.

Gamesome

Gladness of the gamesome crowd.

Gamester

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner.

Gamin

In Japan, the gamins run after you, and say, 'Look at the Chinaman.'

Gan

This man gan fall (i.e., fell) in great suspicion.

The little coines to their play gunne hie (i. e., hied).

Yet at her speech their rages gan relent.

Ganch

Ganching, which is to let fall from on high upon hooks, and there to hang until they die.

Gantlet

Winthrop ran the gantlet of daily slights.

Gap

Miseries ensued by the opening of that gap.

It would make a great gap in your own honor.

Their masses are gapp'd with our grape.

Gape

She stretches, gapes, unglues her eyes, And asks if it be time to rise.

With gaping wonderment had stared aghast.

They have gaped upon me with their mouth.

May that ground gape and swallow me alive!

The hungry grave for her due tribute gapes.

Gapingstock

I was to be a gapingstock and a scorn to the young volunteers.

Garb

You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel.

These black dog-Dons Garb themselves bravely.

Garden

I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy, The pleasant garden of great Italy.

Garish

Garish like the laughters of drunkenness.

It makes the mind loose and garish.

Garland

They [ballads] began to be collected into little miscellanies under the name of garlands.

Garment

No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment.

Garmented

A lovely lady garmented in light From her own beauty.

Garnish

All within with flowers was garnished.

So are you, sweet, Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.

Matter and figure they produce; For garnish this, and that for use.

Garniture

The pomp of groves and garniture of fields.

Garret

He saw men go up and down on the garrets of the gates and walls.

The tottering garrets which overhung the streets of Rome.

Garrulous

The most garrulous people on earth.

Garter

He . . . could not see to garter his hose.

Garth

A clapper clapping in a garth To scare the fowl from fruit.

Gash

Grievously gashed or gored to death.

Gasp

She gasps and struggles hard for life.

Quenching the gasping furrows' thirst with rain.

And with short sobs he gasps away his breath.

Gate

Knowest thou the way to Dover? Both stile and gate, horse way and footpath.

Opening a gate for a long war.

The gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

I was going to be an honest man; but the devil has this very day flung first a lawyer, and then a woman, in my gate.

Gatewise

Three circles of stones set up gatewise.

Gather

And Belgium's capital had gathered them Her beauty and her chivalry.

When he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together.

A rose just gathered from the stalk.

Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Gather us from among the heathen.

He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

To pay the creditor . . . he must gather up money by degrees.

Gathering his flowing robe, he seemed to stand In act to speak, and graceful stretched his hand.

Let me say no more! Gather the sequel by that went before.

He gathers ground upon her in the chase.

When small humors gather to a gout.

Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes.

Their snowball did not gather as it went.

Thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strewed.

Gaudy

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy.

Let's have one other gaudy night.

Gauge

The vanes nicely gauged on each side.

You shall not gauge me By what we do to-night.

This plate must be a gauge to file your worm and groove to equal breadth by.

There is not in our hands any fixed gauge of minds.

The gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt.

Gaunt

A mysterious but visible pestilence, striding gaunt and fleshless across our land.

Gay

Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay.

Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed.

Why is my neighbor's wife so gay?

A bevy of fair women, richly gay In gems and wanton dress!

Gaze

Why stand ye gazing up into heaven?

And gazed a while the ample sky.

With secret gaze Or open admiration him behold.

Made of my enemies the scorn and gaze.

I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon!

Gear

Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear.

Homely gear and common ware.

Clad in a vesture of unknown gear.

Thus go they both together to their gear.

That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man.

Geck

To become the geck and scorn O'the other's villainy.

Gehenna

The pleasant valley of Hinnom. Tophet thence And black Gehenna called, the type of Hell.

Gelatinate

Lapis lazuli, if calcined, does not effervesce, but gelatinates with the mineral acids.

Geld

Bereft and gelded of his patrimony.

Gelding

They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him.

Gelt

All these the king granted unto them . . . free from all gelts and payments, in a most full and ample manner.

Gem

From the joints of thy prolific stem A swelling knot is raised called a gem.

England is . . . gemmed with castles and palaces.

Gemel

Two gemels silver between two griffins passant.

Gemmy

The gemmy bridle glittered free.

Gender

Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living objects.

General

This general applause and cheerful shout Argue your wisdom and your love to Richard.

His general behavior vain, ridiculous.

In particulars our knowledge begins, and so spreads itself by degrees to generals.

General semantics

General Semantics is the study of the relations between language, “thought”, and behavior: between how we talk, therefore how we think, therefore how we act.

Generality

Let us descend from generalities to particulars.

The glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

Generalizable

Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable.

Generalization

Generalization is only the apprehension of the one in the many.

generalize

Copernicus generalized the celestial motions by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton generalized them still more by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air.

When a fact is generalized, our discontent is quited, and we consider the generality itself as tantamount to an explanation.

A mere conclusion generalized from a great multitude of facts.

Generally

Generally speaking, they live very quietly.

I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee.

Generalship

Your generalship puts me in mind of Prince Eugene.

An artful stroke of generalship in Trim to raise a dust.

Generate

Whatever generates a quantity of good chyle must likewise generate milk.

Generation

This is the book of the generations of Adam.

Ye shall remain there [in Babylon] many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations.

All generations and ages of the Christian church.

Thy mother's of my generation; what's she, if I be a dog?

Generification

Out of this the universal is elaborated by generification.

Generosity

Generosity is in nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.

Generous

The generous and gravest citizens.

Genesis

The origin and genesis of poor Sterling's club.

Genetical

This historical, genetical method of viewing prior systems of philosophy.

Genial

Creator Venus, genial power of love.

So much I feel my genial spirits droop.

Natural incapacity and genial indisposition.

Men of genius have often attached the highest value to their less genial works.

Genially

Some men are genially disposed to some opinions.

Genius

The unseen genius of the wood.

We talk of genius still, but with thought how changed! The genius of Augustus was a tutelary demon, to be sworn by and to receive offerings on an altar as a deity.

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

Genre

French drama was lisping or still inarticulate; the great French genre of the fabliau was hardly born.

A particular demand . . . that we shall pay special attention to the matter of genres -- that is, to the different forms or categories of literature.

Gent

All of a knight [who] was fair and gent.

Her body gent and small.

Gentility

He . . . mines my gentility with my education.

Gentle

British society is divided into nobility, gentry, and yeomanry, and families are either noble, gentle, or simple.

The studies wherein our noble and gentle youth ought to bestow their time.

O sleep! it is a gentle thing.

Gentles, methinks you frown.

To gentle life's descent, We shut our eyes, and think it is a plain.

Gentleman

The count's gentleman, one Cesario.

Gently

My mistress gently chides the fault I made.

Gentry

She conquers him by high almighty Jove, By knighthood, gentry, and sweet friendship's oath.

To show us so much gentry and good will.

genuine

The evidence, both internal and external, against the genuineness of these letters, is overwhelming.

Geologize

During midsummer geologized a little in Shropshire.

Geometrize

Nature geometrizeth, and observeth order in all things.

Germ

In the entire process in which a new being originates . . . two distinct classes of action participate; namely, the act of generation by which the germ is produced; and the act of development, by which that germ is evolved into the complete organism.

German

Wert thou a leopard, thou wert german to the lion.

Germane

The phrase would be more germane to the matter.

[An amendment] must be germane.

Gest

Through his heroic grace and honorable gest.

Gestic

And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore.

Carried away by the enthusiasm of the gestic art.

Gestour

Minstrels and gestours for to tell tales.

Gesture

Accubation, or lying down at meals, was a gesture used by many nations.

Humble and reverent gestures.

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.

It is not orderly read, nor gestured as beseemeth.

The players . . . gestured not undecently withal.

Get

Thou hast got the face of man.

I had rather to adopt a child than get it.

It being harder with him to get one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty.

Get him to say his prayers.

Those things I bid you do; get them dispatched.

Get thee out from this land.

He . . . got himself . . . to the strong town of Mega.

We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get.

To get rid of fools and scoundrels.

His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.

Getterup

A diligent getter-up of miscellaneous works.

Getting

With all thy getting, get understanding.

Gewgaw

A heavy gewgaw called a crown.

Seeing his gewgaw castle shine.

Ghast

Ghasted by the noise I made. Full suddenly he fled.

Ghastly

Each turned his face with a ghastly pang.

His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized.

Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.

Staring full ghastly like a strangled man.

Ghetto

I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell.

Ghost

Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament.

The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose.

I thought that I had died in sleep, And was a blessed ghost.

Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

And he gave up the ghost full softly.

Jacob . . . yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

Ghostly

Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies.

One of the gostly children of St. Jerome.

Ghostology

It seemed even more unaccountable than if it had been a thing of ghostology and witchcraft.

Giant

Giants of mighty bone and bold emprise.

Giantship

His giantship is gone somewhat crestfallen.

gibberish

He, like a gypsy, oftentimes would go; All kinds of gibberish he had learnt to know.

Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with.

Gibbet

I'll gibbet up his name.

Gibbous

The bones will rise, and make a gibbous member.

Gibe

Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout.

Draw the beasts as I describe them, From their features, while I gibe them.

Mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorns.

With solemn gibe did Eustace banter me.

Giddy

By giddy head and staggering legs betrayed.

Upon the giddy footing of the hatches.

The giddy motion of the whirling mill.

Young heads are giddy and young hearts are warm.

Gift

Shall I receive by gift, what of my own, . . . I can command ?

Neither take a gift, for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise.

He was gifted . . . with philosophical sagacity.

Gig

Thou disputest like an infant; go, whip thy gig.

Gigantesque

The sort of mock-heroic gigantesque With which we bantered little Lilia first.

Gigantic

When descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Strom wind of the equinox.

Gigget

Cut the slaves to giggets.

Giggle

Giggling and laughing with all their might At the piteous hap of the fairy wight.

Giglot

The giglet is willful, and is running upon her fate.

Gigot

The rest in giggots cut, they spit.

Gilbertian

a Gilbertian world people with foundlings and changelings.

Gild

No more the rising sun shall gild the morn.

Let oft good humor, mild and gay, Gild the calm evening of your day.

This grand liquior that hath gilded them.

Gill

Fishes perform respiration under water by the gills.

Gillhouse

Thee shall each alehouse, thee each gillhouse mourn.

Gimmal

In their pale dull mouths the gimmal bit Lies foul with chewed grass.

Ging

There is a knot, a ging, a pack, a conspiracy against me.

Gingerly

What is't that you took up so gingerly ?

Gipser

A gipser all of silk, Hung at his girdle, white as morné milk.

Gird

Conscience . . . is freed from many fearful girds and twinges which the atheist feels.

I thank thee for that gird, good Tranio.

To slay him and to girden off his head.

Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods.

Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me.

That Nyseian isle, Girt with the River Triton.

I girded thee about with fine linen.

The Son . . . appeared Girt with omnipotence.

Thou hast girded me with strength.

Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.

He girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab.

Gird up the loins of your mind.

Girding

Instead of a stomacher, a girding of sackcloth.

Girdle

Within the girdle of these walls.

Their breasts girded with golden girdles.

From the world's girdle to the frozen pole.

That gems the starry girdle of the year.

Those sleeping stones, That as a waist doth girdle you about.

Girdlestead

Sheathed, beneath his girdlestead.

There fell a flower into her girdlestead.

Girt

We here create thee the first duke of Suffolk, And girt thee with the sword.

Girth

He's a lusty, jolly fellow, that lives well, at least three yards in the girth.

Gist

These quails have their set gists; to wit, ordinary resting and baiting places.

Gite

She came often in a gite of red.

Give

For generous lords had rather give than pay.

What shall a man give in exchange for his soul ?

It is given me once again to behold my friend.

Then give thy friend to shed the sacred wine.

I give not heaven for lost.

I don't wonder at people's giving him to me as a lover.

But there the duke was given to understand That in a gondola were seen together Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica.

Whatsoever we employ in charitable uses during our lives, is given away from ourselves.

I fear our ears have given us the bag.

One that gives out himself Prince Florizel.

Give out you are of Epidamnum.

The Babylonians had given themselves over to all manner of vice.

He has . . . given up For certain drops of salt, your city Rome.

I'll not state them By giving up their characters.

Now back he gives, then rushes on amain.

Whose eyes do never give But through lust and laughter.

My mind gives ye're reserved To rob poor market women.

This, yielding, gave into a grassy walk.

They gave back and came no farther.

The Scots battalion was enforced to give in.

This consideration may induce a translator to give in to those general phrases.

Rooms which gave upon a pillared porch.

The gloomy staircase on which the grating gave.

It would be well for all authors, if they knew when to give over, and to desist from any further pursuits after fame.

Giver

It is the giver, and not the gift, that engrosses the heart of the Christian.

Giving

His givings out were of an infinite distance From his true meant design.

Glad

A wise son maketh a glad father.

He that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.

The Trojan, glad with sight of hostile blood.

He, glad of her attention gained.

As we are now glad to behold your eyes.

Glad am I that your highness is so armed.

Her conversation More glad to me than to a miser money is.

Glad evening and glad morn crowned the fourth day.

That which gladded all the warrior train.

Each drinks the juice that glads the heart of man.

Gladden

A secret pleasure gladdened all that saw him.

The vast Pacific gladdens with the freight.

Glade

There interspersed in lawns and opening glades.

Gladful

It followed him with gladful glee.

Gladly

The common people heard him gladly.

Gladness

They . . . did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart.

The Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day.

Gladsome

Of opening heaven they sung, and gladsome day.

Hours of perfect gladsomeness.

Glaive

The glaive which he did wield.

Glamour

The air filled with a strange, pale glamour that seemed to lie over the broad valley.

It had much of glamour might To make a lady seem a knight.

Glance

Swift as the lightning glance.

Dart not scornful glances from those eyes.

How fleet is a glance of the mind.

From art, from nature, from the schools, Let random influences glance, Like light in many a shivered lance, That breaks about the dappled pools.

On me the curse aslope Glanced on the ground.

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven.

Wherein obscurely Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at.

He glanced at a certain reverend doctor.

And all along the forum and up the sacred seat, His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small glancing feet.

In company I often glanced it.

Glancing

When through the gancing lightnings fly.

Glandulation

Glandulation respects the secretory vessels, which are either glandules, follicles, or utricles.

Glare

The cavern glares with new-admitted light.

And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon.

She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring.

Every eye Glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire.

The frame of burnished steel that cast a glare.

About them round, A lion now he stalks with fiery glare.

Glary

Bright, crystal glass is glary.

Glass

She would not live The running of one glass.

Glass coaches are [allowed in English parks from which ordinary hacks are excluded], meaning by this term, which is never used in America, hired carriages that do not go on stands.

Happy to glass themselves in such a mirror.

Where the Almighty's form glasses itself in tempests.

Glassen

And pursues the dice with glassen eyes.

Glaum

Wha glaum'd at kingdoms three.

Glaver

Here many, clepid filosophirs, glavern diversely.

Some slavish, glavering, flattering parasite.

Glaze

Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and glazed with crystalline glass.

Sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears.

Gleam

Transient unexpected gleams of joi.

At last a gleam Of dawning light turned thitherward in haste His [Satan's] traveled steps.

A glimmer, and then a gleam of light.

In the clear azure gleam the flocks are seen.

Dying eyes gleamed forth their ashy lights.

Gleamy

In brazed arms, that cast a gleamy ray, Swift through the town the warrior bends his way.

Glean

To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.

Content to glean what we can from . . . experiments.

And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers.

Piecemeal they this acre first, then that; Glean on, and gather up the whole estate.

The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs.

Gleaning

Glenings of natural knowledge.

Glebe

Fertile of corn the glebe, of oil, and wine.

Glede

The cruel ire, red as any glede.

Gleek

Where's the Bastard's braves, and Charles his gleeks ?

A pretty gleek coming from Pallas' eye.

Glen

And wooes the widow's daughter of the glen.

Glengarry

The long silk streamers of his Glengarry bonnet.

Glib

I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not.

The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long glibs, which is a thick curied bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them.

Their wild costume of the glib and mantle.

Glibbery

My love is glibbery; there is no hold on't.

Thy lubrical and glibbery muse.

Glidder

Shingle, slates, and gliddery stones.

Glide

The river glideth at his own sweet will.

They prey at last ensnared, he dreadful darts, With rapid glide, along the leaning line.

Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself, And with indented glides did slip away.

Glimmer

The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day.

Gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls.

Glimpse

LIght as the lightning glimpse they ran.

Here hid by shrub wood, there by glimpses seen.

Some glimpsing and no perfect sight.

Glister

All that glisters is not gold.

Glitter

The field yet glitters with the pomp of war.

Gloat

In vengeance gloating on another's pain.

Globe

Him round A globe of fiery seraphim inclosed.

Globule

Globules of snow.

These minute globules [a mole's eyes] are sunk . . . deeply in the skull.

Gloom

Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks.

A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits.

The black gibbet glooms beside the way.

[This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom.

A bow window . . . gloomed with limes.

A black yew gloomed the stagnant air.

Such a mood as that which lately gloomed Your fancy.

What sorrows gloomed that parting day.

Glooming

When the faint glooming in the sky First lightened into day.

The balmy glooming, crescent-lit.

Gloriation

Internal gloriation or triumph of the mind.

Glorify

Jesus was not yet glorified.

That we for thee may glorify the Lord.

Glorious

These are thy glorious works, Parent of good !

Most miserable Is the desire that's glorious.

kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er all the ills of life victorious.

During his office treason was no crime, The sons of Belial had a glorious time.

Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously.

I speak it not gloriously, nor out of affectation.

Glory

Glory to God in the highest.

Spread his glory through all countries wide.

Think it no glory to swell in tyranny.

Jewels lose their glory if neglected.

Your sex's glory 't is to shine unknown.

In glory of thy fortunes.

Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

Glory ye in his holy name.

God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.

No one . . . should glory in his prosperity.

Gloss

It is no part . . . to set on the face of this cause any fairer gloss than the naked truth doth afford.

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm than all the gloss of art.

The glossed and gleamy wave.

All this, without a gloss or comment, He would unriddle in a moment.

Explaining the text in short glosses.

You have the art to gloss the foulest cause.

Glossic

Ingglish Glosik konvai·z hwotev·er proanusiai·shon iz inten·ded bei dhi reiter.

Glow

Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees.

Clad in a gown that glows with Tyrian rays.

And glow with shame of your proceedings.

Did not his temples glow In the same sultry winds and acrching heats?

The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands.

With pride it mounts, and with revenge it glows.

Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.

Fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool.

The red glow of scorn.

Glowworm

Like a glowworm in the night, The which hath fire in darkness, none in light.

Gloze

A false, glozing parasite.

So glozed the tempter, and his proem tuned.

By glozing the evil that is in the world.

Now to plain dealing; lay these glozes by.

Glue

This cold, congealed blood That glues my lips, and will not let me speak.

Glum

I frighten people by my glun face.

Glut

Though every drop of water swear against it, And gape at widest to glut him.

His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice, Torn from his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes.

The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace.

Like three horses that have broken fence, And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn.

A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.

Glutton

Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy.

A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days.

Gluttoned at last, return at home to pine.

Whereon in Egypt gluttoning they fed.

Gluttony

Their sumptuous gluttonies, and gorgeous feasts.

Glyn

He could not beat out the Irish, yet he did shut them up within those narrow corners and glyns under the mountain's foot.

Gnar

He was . . . a thick gnarre.

At them he gan to rear his bristles strong, And felly gnarre.

A thousand wants Gnarr at the heels of men.

Gnarl

And wolves are gnarling who shall gnaw thee first.

Gnarled

The unwedgeable and gnarléd oak.

Gnash

There they him laid, Gnashing for anguish, and despite, and shame.

Gnathic

Skulls with the gnathic index below 98 are orthognathous, from 98 to 103 mesognathous, and above 103 are prognathous.

Gnaw

His bones clean picked; his very bones they gnaw.

They gnawed their tongues for pain.

I might well, like the spaniel, gnaw upon the chain that ties me.

Gnomic

A city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic poetry.

Gnostic

I said you were a gnostic fellow.

Go

You know that love Will creep in service where it can not go.

Thou must run to him; for thou hast staid so long that going will scarce serve the turn.

He fell from running to going, and from going to clambering upon his hands and his knees.

The man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.

[The money] should go according to its true value.

How goes the night, boy ?

I think, as the world goes, he was a good sort of man enough.

Whether the cause goes for me or against me, you must pay me the reward.

Against right reason all your counsels go.

To master the foul flend there goeth some complement knowledge of theology.

Seeing himself confronted by so many, like a resolute orator, he went not to denial, but to justify his cruel falsehood.

By going over all these particulars, you may receive some tolerable satisfaction about this great subject.

The fruit she goes with, I pray for heartily, that it may find Good time, and live.

I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord your God; . . . only ye shall not go very far away.

By Saint George, he's gone! That spear wound hath our master sped.

His amorous expressions go no further than virtue may allow.

They never go about . . . to hide or palliate their vices.

Then went this saying abroad among the brethren.

He . . . went aside privately into a desert place.

Nothing so ridiculous, . . . but it goes down whole with him for truth.

The law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

He was as ready to go in for statistics as for anything else.

The leaders . . . will not go off until they hear you.

The wedding went off much as such affairs do.

It is not easy to make a simile go on all fours.

There are other men fitter to go out than I.

What went ye out for to see ?

Life itself goes out at thy displeasure.

I must not go over Jordan.

Let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan.

Ishmael . . . departed to go over to the Ammonites.

If we go over the laws of Christianity, we shall find that . . . they enjoin the same thing.

They to go equal shares in the booty.

So gracious were the goes of marriage.

This is a pretty go.

“Well,” said Fleming, “is it a go?”

go-as-you-please

bewildered by the old go-as-you-please liberty of alliterative rhythm.

Go-by

Some songs to which we have given the go-by.

Goad

The daily goad urging him to the daily toil.

That temptation that doth goad us on.

Goal

Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels.

Each individual seeks a several goal.

Goatish

Give your chaste body up to the embraces Of goatish lust.

Gobbet

[He] had broken the stocks to small gobbets.

Gobble

Supper gobbled up in haste.

He . . . gobbles out a note of self-approbation.

Ducks and geese . . . set up a discordant gobble.

Goblet

We love not loaded boards and goblets crowned.

Goblin

To whom the goblin, full of wrath, replied.

Gobstick

He . . . wrenched out the hook with the short wooden stick he called a “gobstick.”

God

He maketh a god, and worshipeth it.

The race of Israel . . . bowing lowly down To bestial gods.

God is a Spirit; and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Whose god is their belly.

God-fearing

A brave god-fearing man.

Goddess

When the daughter of Jupiter presented herself among a crowd of goddesses, she was distinguished by her graceful stature and superior beauty.

Godfather

There shall be for every Male-child to be baptized, when they can be had, two Godfathers and one Godmother; and for every Female, one Godfather and two Godmothers; and Parents shall be admitted as Sponsors, if it is desired.

Godhead

The imperial throne Of Godhead, fixed for ever.

Adoring first the genius of the place, The nymphs and native godheads yet unknown.

Godliness

Godliness is profitable unto all things.

Godly

For godly sorrow worketh repentance.

All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

Godship

O'er hills and dales their godships came.

Godspeed

Receive him not into house, neither bid him God speed.

Goer

This antechamber has been filled with comers and goers.

Goggle

And wink and goggle like an owl.

The long, sallow vissage, the goggle eyes.

Going

His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.

Goitrous

Let me not be understood as insinuating that the inhabitants in general are either goitrous or idiots.

Gold

For me, the gold of France did not seduce.

Golden

Angels guard him in the golden mean.

Golf

Last mystery of all, he learned to golf.

Gonfalon

Standards and gonfalons, 'twixt van and rear, Stream in the air.

Gong

O'er distant deserts sounds the Tartar gong.

Gongorism

Gongorism, that curious disease of euphuism, that broke out simultaneously in Italy, England, and Spain.

The Renaissance riots itself away in Marinism, Gongorism, Euphuism, and the affectations of the Hôtel Rambouillet.

Good

And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.

Good company, good wine, good welcome.

In all things showing thyself a pattern of good works.

The men were very good unto us.

All quality that is good for anything is founded originally in merit.

He . . . is a good workman; a very good tailor.

Those are generally good at flattering who are good for nothing else.

My reasons are both good and weighty.

My meaning in saying he is a good man is . . . that he is sufficient . . . I think I may take his bond.

Love no man in good earnest.

Good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over.

A good name is better than precious ointment.

The good woman never died after this, till she came to die for good and all.

Distinguished by good humor and good breeding.

My father always said I was born to be a good for nothing.

The good nature and generosity which belonged to his character.

The young count's good nature and easy persuadability were among his best characteristics.

The good will of a trade is nothing more than the probability that the old customers will resort to the old place.

Each word made good and true.

Of no power to make his wishes good.

I . . . would by combat make her good.

Convenient numbers to make good the city.

If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear.

There be many that say, Who will show us any good ?

The good of the whole community can be promoted only by advancing the good of each of the members composing it.

He hath made us spend much good.

Thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of Venice.

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book.

They who counsel ye to such a suppressing, do as good as bid ye suppress yourselves.

Goodish

Goodish pictures in rich frames.

Goodliness

Her goodliness was full of harmony to his eyes.

Goodly

We have many goodly days to see.

The goodliest man of men since born.

Goodly and great he sails behind his link.

Goodman

With you, goodman boy, an you please.

Say ye to the goodman of the house, . . . Where is the guest-chamber ?

Goose

The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.

Goosery

The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor.

Gore

The low stumps shall gore His daintly feet.

Gorge

Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain.

Now, how abhorred! . . . my gorge rises at it.

And all the way, most like a brutish beast, e spewed up his gorge, that all did him detest.

The fish has gorged the hook.

The giant gorged with flesh.

Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite.

Gorgeous

Cloud-land, gorgeous land.

Gorgeous as the sun at midsummer.

Gorget

Unfix the gorget's iron clasp.

Gorgonian

The rest his look Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move.

Gorse

The common, overgrown with fern, and rough With prickly gorse.

Gory

Thou canst not say I did it; never shake Thy gory locks at me.

Gospel

And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom.

The steadfast belief of the promises of the gospel.

Thus the literal sense [of gospel] is the “narrative of God,” i. e., the life of Christ.

If any one thinks this expression hyperbolical, I shall only ask him to read Œdipus, instead of taking the traditional witticisms about Lee for gospel.

Gospeler

Mark the gospeler was the ghostly son of Peter in baptism.

The persecution was carried on against the gospelers with much fierceness by those of the Roman persuasion.

The Archbishop of York was the celebrant, the epistoler being the dean, and the gospeler the Bishop of Sydney.

Gossamery

The greatest master of gossamery affectation.

Gossip

Should a great lady that was invited to be a gossip, in her place send her kitchen maid, 't would be ill taken.

My noble gossips, ye have been too prodigal.

The common chat of gossips when they meet.

Bubbles o'er like a city with gossip, scandal, and spite.

gotcha

Kathleen "Kit" Gingrich (Sept. 23), 77, mother of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich . . . became famous as the victim of a "gotcha" interview by CBS's Connie Chung; the TV personality coaxed ("whisper it to me, just between you and me") out of Mrs. Gingrich a nasty comment attributed to her son concerning then-First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton -- and then aired it.

Gourmand

That great gourmand, fat Apicius.

Gout

On thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood.

Govern

Govern well thy appetite.

Government

That free government which we have so dearly purchased, free commonwealth.

I here resign my government to thee.

When we, in England, speak of the government, we generally understand the ministers of the crown for the time being.

Gowan

And pu'd the gowans fine.

Gowany

Sweeter than gowany glens or new-mown hay.

Gowd

The man's the gowd for a' that.

Gown

He Mars deposed, and arms to gowns made yield.

He comes . . . in the gown of humility.

Gowned

Gowned in pure white, that fitted to the shape.

Grabble

He puts his hands into his pockets, and keeps a grabbling and fumbling.

Grace

To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee.

And if by grace, then is it no more of works.

My grace is sufficicnt for thee.

Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.

By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand.

He is complete in feature and in mind. With all good grace to grace a gentleman.

I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing.

Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else.

I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of the gift.

The Graces love to weave the rose.

The Loves delighted, and the Graces played.

How fares your Grace !

Yielding graces and thankings to their lord Melibeus.

That day of grace fleets fast away.

The grace cup follows to his sovereign's health.

To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the custom of the grace drink, she having established it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was rewarded with a bumper.

Content to do the profession some grace.

What might have been done with a good grace would at least be done with a bad grace.

Great Jove and Phoebus graced his noble line.

We are graced with wreaths of victory.

He might, at his pleasure, grace or disgrace whom he would in court.

Graceful

High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode.

Gracious

A god ready to pardon, gracious and merciful.

So hallowed and so gracious in the time.

Since the birth of Cain, the first male child, . . . There was not such a gracious creature born.

Gradation

The several gradations of the intelligent universe.

Gradatory

Could we have seen [Macbeth's] crimes darkening on their progress . . . could this gradatory apostasy have been shown us.

Grade

They also appointed and removed, at their own pleasure, teachers of every grade.

Gradual

Creatures animate with gradual life Of growth, sense, reason, all summed up in man.

Gradually

Human reason doth not only gradually, but specifically, differ from the fantastic reason of brutes.

Gradualness

The gradualness of this movement.

The gradualness of growth is a characteristic which strikes the simplest observer.

Graduate

Dyers advance and graduate their colors with salts.

He graduated at Oxford.

He was brought to their bar and asked where he had graduated.

Beginning with the genus, passing through all the graduate and subordinate stages.

Gradus

He set to work . . . without gradus or other help.

Graff

[A prince] is nothing but a servant, overseer, or graff, and not the head, which is a title belonging only to Christ.

Graft

And graft my love immortal on thy fame !

Grail

Such as antiphonals, missals, grails, processionals, etc.

Lying down upon the sandy grail.

Grain

Storehouses crammed with grain.

I . . . with a grain of manhood well resolved.

All in a robe of darkest grain.

Doing as the dyers do, who, having first dipped their silks in colors of less value, then give' them the last tincture of crimson in grain.

Hard box, and linden of a softer grain.

Knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, Infect the sound pine and divert his grain Tortive and errant from his course of growth.

Brothers . . . not united in grain.

He cheweth grain and licorice, To smellen sweet.

The red roses flush up in her cheeks . . . Likce crimson dyed in grain.

Grained

Persons lightly dipped, not grained, in generous honesty, are but pale in goodness.

Gramashes

Strong gramashes, or leggings of thick gray cloth.

Gramercy

Gramercy, Mammon, said the gentle knight.

Grammar

The original bad grammar and bad spelling.

When any town shall increase to the number of a hundred families or householders, they shall set up a grammar school, the master thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University.

Grammaticaster

My noble Neophite, my little grammaticaster.

Granary

The exhaustless granary of a world.

Grand

Making so bold . . . to unseal Their grand commission.

They are the highest models of expression, the unapproached masters of the grand style.

What cause Mov'd our grand parents, in that happy state, Favor'd of Heaven so highly, to fall off From their Creator.

Grandeur

Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.

Grandfatherly

He was a grandfatherly sort of personage.

Grandiloquence

The sin of grandiloquence or tall talking.

Grandiose

The tone of the parts was to be perpetually kept down in order not to impair the grandiose effect of the whole.

The grandiose red tulips which grow wild.

Grange

And eke an officer out for to ride, To see her granges and her bernes wide.

Nor burnt the grange, nor bussed the milking maid.

Grant

Grant me the place of this threshing floor.

Wherefore did God grant me my request.

Grant that the Fates have firmed by their decree.

grantee

His grace will not survive the poor grantee he despises.

Graphic

The finger of God hath left an inscription upon all his works, not graphical, or composed of letters.

Grapple

The gallies were grappled to the Centurion.

Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.

And in my standard bear the arms of York, To grapple with the house of Lancaster.

The iron hooks and grapples keen.

Grapy

The grapy clusters.

Grasp

Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff.

As one that grasped And tugged for life and was by strength subdued.

The whole space that's in the tyrant's grasp.

The foremost minds of the next . . . era were not, in power of grasp, equal to their predecessors.

Graspless

From my graspless hand Drop friendship's precious pearls.

Grass

Two years old next grass.

Surely the people is grass.

Grate

On their hinges grate Harsh thunder.

News, my good lord Rome . . . grates me.

I had rather hear a brazen canstick turned, Or a dry wheel grate on the exletree.

This grated harder upon the hearts of men.

Grateful

A grateful mind By owing, owes not, but still pays.

Now golden fruits on loaded branches shine, And grateful clusters swell.

Gratify

For who would die to gratify a foe?

It remains . . . To gratify his noble service.

Gratitude

The debt immense of endless gratitude.

Gratuitous

We mistake the gratuitous blessings of Heaven for the fruits of our own industry.

Acts of gratuitous self-humiliation.

Gratulate

There's more behind that is more gratulate.

Gratulation

I shall turn my wishes into gratulations.

Gratulatory

The usual groundwork of such gratulatory odes.

Grave

His shield grave and great.

Most potent, grave, and reverend seigniors.

A grave and prudent law, full of moral equity.

The thicker the cord or string, the more grave is the note or tone.

He hath graven and digged up a pit.

Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel.

With gold men may the hearte grave.

O! may they graven in thy heart remain.

Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.

He bad lain in the grave four days.

Gravel

When we were fallen into a place between two seas, they graveled the ship.

Willam the Conqueror . . . chanced as his arrival to be graveled; and one of his feet stuck so fast in the sand that he fell to the ground.

When you were graveled for lack of matter.

The physician was so graveled and amazed withal, that he had not a word more to say.

Graveness

His sables and his weeds, Importing health and graveness.

Gravery

Either of picture or gravery and embossing.

Graving

Skillful to . . . grave any manner of graving.

New gravings upon their souls.

Gravitate

Why does this apple fall to the ground? Because all bodies gravitate toward each other.

Politicians who naturally gravitate towards the stronger party.

Gravity

They derive an importance from . . . the gravity of the place where they were uttered.

Gray

These gray and dun colors may be also produced by mixing whites and blacks.

Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day. That coats thy life, my gallant gray.

Grayling

And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling.

Graze

A field or two to graze his cows.

The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead.

When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep.

The ground continueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose.

Turning him out for a graze on the common.

Grazer

The cackling goose, Close grazer, finds wherewith to ease her want.

Grazier

The inhabitants be rather . . . graziers than plowmen.

Grease

The greased advocate that grinds the poor.

Greasily

You talk greasily; your lips grow foul.

Greasy

With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers.

Great

He doth object I am too great of birth.

The ewes great with young.

We have all Great cause to give great thanks.

Greaten

A minister's [business] is to greaten and exalt [his king].

My blue eyes greatening in the looking-glass.

Greatly

I will greatly multiply thy sorrow.

By a high fate thou greatly didst expire.

Greatness

It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships.

Gree

Accept in gree, my lord, the words I spoke.

He is a shepherd great in gree.

Greediness

Fox in stealth, wolf in greediness.

Greek

Without a confederate the . . . game of baccarat does not . . . offer many chances for the Greek.

Green

To look so green and pale.

As valid against such an old and beneficent government as against . . . the greenest usurpation.

We say the meat is green when half roasted.

I might be angry with the officious zeal which supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my gray hairs.

O'er the smooth enameled green.

In that soft season when descending showers Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers.

Great spring before Greened all the year.

By greening slope and singing flood.

Greenery

A pretty little one-storied abode, so rural, so smothered in greenery.

Greenth

The greenth of summer.

Greet

My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you.

In vain the spring my senses greets.

There greet in silence, as the dead are wont, And sleep in peace.

Greeting

Write to him . . . gentle adieus and greetings.

Greeze

The top of the ladder, or first greeze, is this.

Gregal

For this gregal conformity there is an excuse.

Gregarious

No birds of prey are gregarious.

Grewsome

Grewsome sights of war.

Gride

That through his thigh the mortal steel did gride.

The gride of hatchets fiercely thrown. On wigwam log, and tree, and stone.

Grief

The mother was so afflicted at the loss of a fine boy, . . . that she died for grief of it.

Be factious for redress of all these griefs.

This grief (cancerous ulcers) hastened the end of that famous mathematician, Mr. Harriot.

Grievance

The . . . grievance of a mind unreasonably yoked.

Grievancer

Petition . . . against the bishops as grand grievancers.

Grieve

Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve.

Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God.

The maidens grieved themselves at my concern.

Do not you grieve at this.

Grievous

The famine was grievous in the land.

The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight.

Griff

A vein of gold ore within one spade's griff.

Grill

[They] make grills of [wood] to broil their meat.

Boiling of men in caldrons, grilling them on gridirons.

He had grilled in the heat, sweated in the rains.

Grille

The grille which formed part of the gate.

Grim

Whose grim aspect sets every joint a-shaking.

The ridges of grim war.

Grimace

Moving his face into such a hideous grimace, that every feature of it appeared under a different distortion.

Grimly

In glided Margaret's grimly ghost, And stood at William's feet.

Grin

Like a bird that hasteth to his grin.

The pangs of death do make him grin.

Grinned horrible a ghastly smile.

He showed twenty teeth at a grin.

Grind

Take the millstones, and grind meal.

To grind the subject or defraud the prince.

Send thee Into the common prison, there to grind.

Grindstone

They might be ashamed, for lack of courage, to suffer the Lacedæmonians to hold their noses to the grindstone.

Grinte

[He] grinte with his teeth, so was he wroth.

Gripe

Like a white hind under the gripe's sharp claws.

Wouldst thou gripe both gain and pleasure ?

How inly sorrow gripes his soul.

A barren scepter in my gripe.

Grise

Every grise of fortune Is smoothed by that below.

Grisly

A man of grisly and stern gravity.

Grist

Get grist to the mill to have plenty in store.

Grit

The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread.

Grizzle

Hardship of the way such as would grizzle little children.

I found myself on the Nubian desert shaking hands with a grizzling man whom men addressed as Collins Bey.

Grizzled

Grizzled hair flowing in elf locks.

Grizzly

Old squirrels that turn grizzly.

groan

For we . . . do groan, being burdened.

He heard the groaning of the oak.

Nothing but holy, pure, and clear, Or that which groaneth to be so.

Such groans of roaring wind and rain.

The wretched animal heaved forth such groans.

Grocery

A deal box . . . to carry groceries in.

The shops at which the best families of the neighborhood bought grocery and millinery.

Groin

Bears that groined coatinually.

The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity.

Groove

The gregarious trifling of life in the social groove.

Grope

We grope for the wall like the blind.

To grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities ot a worldly life.

Felix gropeth him, thinking to have a bribe.

Gross

A gross body of horse under the Duke.

Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear.

The terms which are delicate in one age become gross in the next.

For the gross of the people, they are considered as a mere herd of cattle.

Grossness

Abhor the swinish grossness that delights to wound the' ear of delicacy.

grotesquery

Vileness, on the other hand, becomes grotesquerie, wonderfully converted into a subject of laughter.

ground

There was not a man to till the ground.

The fire ran along upon the ground.

From . . . old Euphrates, to the brook that parts Egypt from Syrian ground.

Thy next design is on thy neighbor's grounds.

On that ground I'll build a holy descant.

There is no way for duty to prevail, and get ground of them, but by bidding higher.

These nine . . . began to give me ground.

Being rooted and grounded in love.

So far from warranting any inference to the existence of a God, would, on the contrary, ground even an argument to his negation.

Groundling

No comic buffoon to make the groundlings laugh.

Groundly

Those whom princes do once groundly hate, Let them provide to die as sure us fate.

Group

The difficulty lies in drawing and disposing, or, as the painters term it, in grouping such a multitude of different objects.

Grovel

To creep and grovel on the ground.

Grow

Winter began to grow fast on.

Even just the sum that I do owe to you Is growing to me by Antipholus.

Where law faileth, error groweth.

For his mind Had grown Suspicion's sanctuary.

Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow.

These wars have grown out of commercial considerations.

Growth

Nature multiplies her fertile growth.

Grub

They do not attempt to grub up the root of sin.

Yet your butterfly was a grub.

I 'd sooner ballads write, and grubstreet lays.

Grubby

The grubby game of marbles.

Grubworm

And gnats and grubworms crowded on his view.

Grucche

What aileth you, thus for grucche and groan.

Grudge

Tis not in thee To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train.

I have often heard the Presbyterians say, they did not grudge us our employments.

They have grudged us contribution.

Perish they That grudge one thought against your majesty !

Grudge not one against another.

He eats his meat without grudging.

Esau had conceived a mortal grudge and enmity against his brother Jacob.

The feeling may not be envy; it may not be imbittered by a grudge.

Our shaken monarchy, that now lies . . . struggling against the grudges of more dreaded calamities.

Gruf

They fellen gruf, and cryéd piteously.

Gruff

Gruff, disagreeable, sarcastic remarks.

Grumble

L'Avare, not using half his store, Still grumbles that he has no more.

A bad case of grumble.

Grunt

Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life.

Guarantee

His interest seemed to be a guarantee for his zeal.

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government.

Guard

For Heaven still guards the right.

The body of your discourse is sometime guarded with fragments, and the guards are but slightly basted on neither.

His greatness was no guard to bar heaven's shaft.

The guard which kept the door of the king's house.

They have expressed themselves with as few guards and restrictions as I.

Guardian

Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz., the father and (in some cases) the mother of the child.

Guardianess

I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess.

Gudgeon

Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.

To be gudgeoned of the opportunities which had been given you.

Guerdon

So young as to regard men's frown or smile As loss or guerdon of a glorious lot.

He shall, by thy revenging hand, at once receive the just guerdon of all his former villainies.

Him we gave a costly bribe To guerdon silence.

Guess

First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess.

We may then guess how far it was from his design.

Of ambushed men, whom, by their arms and dress, To be Taxallan enemies I guess.

Tell me their words, as near as thou canst guess them.

Not all together; better far, I guess, That we do make our entrance several ways.

But in known images of life I guess The labor greater.

This is the place, as well as I may guess.

A poet must confess His art 's like physic -- but a happy guess.

Guest

To cheer his guests, whom he had stayed that night.

True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest. Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

And tell me, best of princes, who he was That guested here so late.

Guidance

His studies were without guidance and without plan.

Guide

I wish . . . you 'ld guide me to your sovereign's court.

He will guide his affairs with discretion.

The meek will he guide in judgment.

He will be our guide, even unto death.

Guidon

The pendants and guidons were carried by the officer of the army.

Guile

Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile.

To wage by force or guile eternal war.

Guilt

Satan had not answer, but stood struck With guilt of his own sin.

A ship incurs guilt by the violation of a blockade.

Guiltless

The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

Such gardening tools, as art, yet rude, Guiltless of fire, had formed.

Guilty

They answered and said, He is guilty of death.

Nor he, nor you, were guilty of the strife.

Guinea

The guinea, so called from the Guinea gold out of which it was first struck, was proclaimed in 1663, and to go for twenty shillings; but it never went for less than twenty-one shillings.

Guise

The swain replied, “It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise.”

As then the guise was for each gentle swain.

A . . . specter, in a far more terrific guise than any which ever yet have overpowered the imagination.

Gule

Throats so wide and gules so gluttonous.

Gules

His sev'n-fold targe a field of gules did stain In which two swords he bore; his word, “Divide and reign.”

Follow thy drum; With man's blood paint the ground; gules, gules.

Let's march to rest and set in gules, like suns.

Gulf

He then surveyed Hell and the gulf between.

Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed.

A gulf of ruin, swallowing gold.

Gull

The rulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed.

I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service.

Gullage

Had you no quirk. To avoid gullage, sir, by such a creature?

Gulp

He does not swallow, but he gulps it down.

The old man . . . glibly gulped down the whole narrative.

Gum

He frets like a gummed velvet.

Gummy

Kindles the gummy bark of fir or pine.

Then rubs his gummy eyes.

Gumption

One does not have gumption till one has been properly cheated.

Gun

As swift as a pellet out of a gunne When fire is in the powder runne.

The word gun was in use in England for an engine to cast a thing from a man long before there was any gunpowder found out.

Gunning

The art of gunning was but little practiced.

Gunshot

Those who are come over to the royal party are supposed to be out of gunshot.

Gurge

The plain, wherein a black bituminous gurge Boils out from under ground.

Gurgle

Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, And waste their music on the savage race.

Gush

He smote the rock that the waters gushed out.

A sea of blood gushed from the gaping wound.

The gush of springs, An fall of lofty foundains.

Gusset

Seam and gusset and band.

Gust

Snow, and hail, stormy gust and flaw.

An ox will relish the tender flesh of kids with as much gust and appetite.

Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust.

A choice of it may be made according to the gust and manner of the ancients.

Gustable

This position informs us of a vulgar error, terming the gall bitter; whereas there is nothing gustable sweeter.

A gustable thing, seen or smelt, excites the appetite, and affects the glands and parts of the mouth.

Gustful

A gustful April morn.

Gusty

Upon a raw and gusty day.

Gut

Tom Brown, of facetious memory, having gutted a proper name of its vowels, used it as freely as he pleased.

Gutter

Gutters running with ale.

Guttulous

In its [hail's] guttulous descent from the air.

Guttural

Children are occasionally born with guttural swellings.

In such a sweet, guttural accent.

Gutturize

For which the Germans gutturize a sound.

guy

The lady . . . who dresses like a guy.

Guzzle

Those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar.

Well-seasoned bowls the gossip's spirits raise, Who, while she guzzles, chats the doctor's praise.

To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey.

That sink of filth, that guzzle most impure.

Gye

Discreet enough his country for to gye.

Gymnasium

More like ordinary schools of gymnasia than universities.

Gymnic

Have they not swordplayers, and every sort Of gymnic artists, wrestlers, riders, runners?

Gymnotus

One fearful shock, fearful but momentary, like that from the electric blow of the gymnotus.

Gyneolatry

The sentimental gyneolatry of chivalry, which was at best but skin-deep.

Gynocracy

The aforesaid state has repeatedly changed from absolute despotism to republicanism, not forgetting the intermediate stages of oligarchy, limited monarchy, and even gynocracy; for I myself remember Alsatia governed for nearly nine months by an old fishwoman.

Gypsy

Like a right gypsy, hath, at fast and loose, Beguiled me to the very heart of loss.

Gyration

The gyrations of an ascending balloon.

If a burning coal be nimbly moved round in a circle, with gyrations continually repeated, the whole circle will appear like fire.

Gyre

Quick and more quick he spins in giddy gyres.

Still expanding and ascending gyres.

Gyrland

Their hair loose and flowing, gyrlanded with sea grass.

Gyve

Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves.

With gyves upon his wrist.

I will gyve thee in thine own courtship.