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always either received and transmitted or reflected
This at least may be considered certain, that light is always either received and transmitted or reflected by an even surface.
— from Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature by Francis Bacon

and extensive ruins and tombstones of recent
Sick at the sight, ferried across the harbour to the Island Castle, very grand and very wild, with cathedral, tower, and extensive ruins, and tombstones of recent date: several of shipwrecked men.
— from Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Dorothy Wordsworth

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