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again changed to an ellipse only now
The elasticity of the bell restores the figure of the base, and makes that part which was forced out of its place, return back to its former situation, from which the same principle throws it out again; so that the circular figure of the bell will be again changed to an ellipse, only now the shorter axis will pass through the part which was first struck.
— from Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Thomas Garnett

a circular tray about eight or nine
Next make a circular tray about eight or nine inches in diameter, and turn up its edge about half an inch all round.
— from Glimpses of Ocean Life; Or, Rock-Pools and the Lessons they Teach by John Harper

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