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competing electric light companies and the

We have already seen the folly of establishing competing electric light companies, and the attempt to establish rival telephone exchanges is just as sure to result ultimately in a heavy additional tax on the public.
— from Monopolies and the People by Charles Whiting Baker

California except Lower California and the

C. cafer in the comparatively pure form inhabits Mexico, Arizona, California (except Lower California and the opposite coast), central and western Nevada, Utah, Oregon, and is bounded on the east by a line drawn from the Pacific south of Washington, south and eastward through Colorado to the mouth
— from Problems of Genetics by William Bateson

cases especially large cells are to

In many cases especially large cells are to be seen on the floor of the cavity ( Pl. 7, fig.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

contemporary European literature came at this

Half the masterpieces of contemporary European literature came at this time under the censor's ban; no foreign papers were admitted except two ultra-monarchical French journals; and contraband was a necessity of literary study.
— from The Life of Mazzini by Bolton King

course excepting large cities and their

We have before alluded to the fact that Etna is far more thickly populated than any other part of Sicily or Italy; in fact, more so than almost any equal area in the world, of course excepting large cities and their neighbourhood.
— from Etna: A History of the Mountain and of its Eruptions by G. F. (George Farrer) Rodwell

Canadian Electric Light Company at the

We were bound to assist at a function that evening, and the special train was tolerably well filled by members of the Legislature and of the Council, and many others who were going to witness the first trial of the electric light under the auspices of the Canadian Electric Light Company, at the depot of the Q. M. O. & O. Railway at Hochelaga.
— from Hesperothen; Notes from the West, Vol. 1 (of 2) A Record of a Ramble in the United States and Canada in the Spring and Summer of 1881 by Russell, William Howard, Sir

criticism especially literary criticism and that

In a former chapter we conducted the history of criticism, especially literary criticism, and that chiefly as displayed in the periodicals which were reorganized and refreshed in the early years of the century, to about 1850.
— from A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury

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