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  • The Greshams from time immemorial had been handsome.

    Doctor Thorne 2004

  • Such changes had taken place in England since the Greshams had founded themselves that no savage could any longer in any way protect them; they must protect themselves like common folk, or live unprotected.

    Doctor Thorne 2004

  • ‘But though she had despised it, the Greshams had not been less irritated, and, therefore, Mr Umbleby had been driven out of his house.’

    Doctor Thorne 2004

  • Sir Louis sat moody, every now and then uttering some impertinence as to the Greshams and the

    Doctor Thorne 2004

  • There may, perhaps, have been something pleasant in the heartiness of this; but it was not pleasant to have this heart affair of hers thus publicly scanned and talked over: to have it known to every one that she had set her heart on marrying Frank gem, and that all the Greshams had set their hearts in preventing it.

    Doctor Thorne 2004

  • Now the Greshams were ever a strong people, and never addicted to humility.

    Doctor Thorne 2004

  • The Cantrips and the Greshams would feel that he was a friend doubly valuable, if he could be won back; and Mr Monk would greet him as a fitting ally — an ally strong with the strength which he had before wanted.

    Phineas Finn 2004

  • Monks, Greshams, and Daubeneys — had been more or less portraits, not of living men, but of living political characters.

    An Autobiography 2004

  • As to the advice given him of herding with Greshams and Pallisers, instead of with Ratlers and Fitzgibbons — he must use that as circumstances might direct.

    Phineas Finn 2004

  • Greshams should be again be happy to welcome her at

    Doctor Thorne 2004

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