They have been papered and clothed—and tarred and feathered, maybe—and then encased in lead by a process that is so easy as to be laughable, and yet as ingenious as any one thing the wire miller does.
— from Outspinning the Spider: The Story of Wire and Wire Rope by John Kimberly Mumford
But I believed and proclaimed that I should, erelong, fly to St. Louis and claim and receive the one-hundred-thousand-dollar reward offered by the Commission of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition for the most efficient airship to be exhibited.
— from A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography by Clifford Whittingham Beers
Early Brasses and Picturesque Tombs in St. Edmund's Chapel 66 12.
— from Westminster Abbey by Smith, A. Murray, Mrs.
Early Brasses and Picturesque Tombs in St. Edmund's Chapel ST. EDMUND'S CHAPEL We have already seen part of this chapel.
— from Westminster Abbey by Smith, A. Murray, Mrs.
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