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a remarkable and untiring zeal
But now friend Flaxman had introduced him to poet Hayley, who was not only famous for his literary work, but also for a remarkable and untiring zeal in the service of those he reckoned his friends.
— from William Blake, the Man by Charles Gardner

a rash and unreflecting zealot
But Barnes, like a rash and unreflecting zealot, not only attacked Gardiner's sermon, but got quite excited, and declared that he himself was a fighting-cock, and Gardiner was another fighting-cock, but that the garden -cock lacked good spurs.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

acid rapidly acts upon Z
The acid rapidly acts upon Z , so it is better to remove Z if you wish to leave the experimenting even for a few minutes only.
— from How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus Containing Complete Directions for Making All Kinds of Simple Apparatus for the Study of Elementary Electricity by Thomas M. (Thomas Matthew) St. John

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