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If a phrase sparks the gest of song memory endures longer — like the hum of a taut string in the dark.
From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2021
The new rules would also put effective limits on bonuses, which often account for the big gest increases in executive compensation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not daring to sug gest that Germany will ask for the emergency moratorium provided in the Young Plan, Herr Bruning hinted that circumstances may force the Allies to grant it.
From Time Magazine Archive
The most significant fact about Salazar's relationship with the Countess is that not even the gossipy Portuguese, not even Salazar's thousands of enemies, sug gest that she is his mistress.
From Time Magazine Archive
“You could see your neighbor very dimly. Those ten seconds were the lon- gest ten seconds that I ever experienced.”
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
His new novel sug gests that he may be suffering from over production.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Scotland, Huchowne’s works might no doubt have been regarded as the standard romances of the period, but that they were the only English gests is indeed very doubtful.
From Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century by Morris, Richard
Prosper's aim on leaving High March after his gests of arms had been Goltres, for there he had believed to find Galors.
From The Forest Lovers by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
Thus had Achilles his owne gests design'd, He had his genius Homer far outshin'd.
From The Lucasta Poems by Lovelace, Richard
Thou high director of the same, Assist mine artless pen, To write the gests of Britons stout, And acts of English men.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
