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and ruling ideas liberty equality democracy
Out of the conditions of this common life there has grown a body of general and ruling ideas: liberty, equality, democracy, fate, providence, personal immortality, and progress.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

at regular intervals long end downwards
In this nest as many as a bushel of eggs are deposited, at regular intervals, long end downwards.
— from Eccentricities of the Animal Creation. by John Timbs

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