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RGRadio Grade (as in RG-11 coaxial cable)
RGRange (Canada Post road designation)
RGReally Good
RGReading (postcode, United Kingdom)
RGRhythmic Gymnastics (sport)
RGRegulatory Guide
RGRio Grande (railroad; river)
RGResidential Gateway
RGRive Gauche (French: Left Bank)
RGRed Green
RGRight Guard (football)
RGRechnung (German: Invoice)
RGVarig (Brazilian South Airways)
RGRenseignements Generaux (French Investigation Bureau)
RGRasGas (Qatar)
RGRock Guitar
RGRupert Grint (actor)
RGRate Gyro (gyroscope)
RGRoentgenium (element)
RGReal Girl
RGRold Gold (food brand)
RGRoyal Gibraltar Regiment (UK)
RGRate Group
RGRegister-Guard (Eugene, OR newspaper)
RGRadius of Gyration
RGRagusa, Sicilia (Italian province)
RGRadio Guide (cable designator)
RGRegistro Geral (General Register, Brazilian ID card)
RGRamat Gan (Israel)
RGRaygun
RGRyan Giggs (soccer player)
RGRepublican Guard (Iraq; military)
RGRetractable Gear
RGRing Gear (automotive)
RGReduction Gear
RGRegional Gathering (Mensa's regional group annual meeting)
RGRes Gestae (Latin: Accompishments, epigraphy)
RGRail Gun (Quake weaponry)
RGUniversity of Rio Grande (Rio Grande, Ohio)
RGRegistered Geologist (Missouri registration for professional geologist)
RGRegular Guys (radio show)
RGRiveted Plate Girder (engineering)
RGRio Group
RGReceiver Group
RGRemote Gateway
RGReliability Growth
RGReconnaissance Group
RGRandom Glucose
RGRed Guards (Chinese cultural revolution)
RGReadiness Group
RGReconstitution Group (US DoD)
RGReactor Grade (plutonium)
RGRights Working Group
RGRules Girl (from "The Rules" books)
RGRough Grade (construction)
RGRate of Germination
RGRetro-Grade
RGRely-Guarantee
RGRe-Gummed (philately)
RGRadio Direction Finding Station
RGReserve Grade
RGRoving Guns (gaming clan)
RGRecommended Gear
RGRegular-Graded
RGRelational Geometry
RGReports Generator
RGRobbins-Gioia Inc (program management company)
RGRapid Gaming
RGReach Guide (baseball)
RGRisk Guideline
RGRail Garrison
RGRevalor G (cattle hormone)
RGRatchetGamers (Ratchet and Clank forum)
RGRamped Gradient
RGRenormalizaton Group
RGRenegade Gunners (gaming clan)
RGUS Revenue Silver Tax (Scott Catalogue prefix; philately)
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References in classic literature
Most men have learned to read to serve a paltry convenience, as they have learned to cipher in order to keep accounts and not be cheated in trade; but of reading as a noble intellectual exercise they know little or nothing; yet this only is reading, in a high sense, not that which lulls us as a luxury and suffers the nobler faculties to sleep the while, but what we have to stand on tip-toe to read and devote our most alert and wakeful hours to.
Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading. There is a work in several volumes in our Circulating Library entitled "Little Reading," which I thought referred to a town of that name which I had not been to.
One who has just come from reading perhaps one of the best English books will find how many with whom he can converse about it?
lies buried at Reading, in the Benedictine abbey founded by him there, the ruins of which may still be seen; and, in this same abbey, great John of Gaunt was married to the Lady Blanche.
At Reading lock we came up with a steam launch, belonging to some friends of mine, and they towed us up to within about a mile of Streatley.
The river becomes very lovely from a little above Reading. The railway rather spoils it near Tilehurst, but from Mapledurham up to Streatley it is glorious.
I think that I came of a reading race, which has always loved literature in a way, and in spite of varying fortunes and many changes.
In school there was as little literature then as there is now, and I cannot say anything worse of our school reading; but I was not really very much in school, and so I got small harm from it.
Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.
And here for long hours he lay, hidden from anyone who might come to the vicarage, reading, reading passionately.
After reading one or two of the more coherent passages Henry recoiled from the ever-darkening horror of the story.
'But if you will be guided by me, spare yourself the reading of those pages to come, which describe our brother's terrible expiation of his heartless marriage.'
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