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and troublesome extremist landed in New England
But he succeeded in sailing with his young wife, and in 1631 this undefiled soul, this dauntless and troublesome extremist, landed in New England.
— from The Beginners of a Nation A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in America, with Special Reference to the Life and Character of the People by Edward Eggleston

and the electric light is no exception
We know that light of this character has its source in the heat vibrations of molecules at the temperature of incandescence, and the electric light is no exception to the rule.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, June 1885 by Various

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