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calcareous ridges outside there are longitudinal shoulders
Their basal edges are dentated, and their upper parts, both on the outside and inside, are marked, where joined to the other compartments, by slight calcareous ridges: outside, there are longitudinal shoulders (Pl. 20 , fig.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

class resulted or that a large sale
Every month one reads lists of lectures given in the most diverse places, very often with the note that a local club or class resulted, or that a large sale of Esperanto literature took place.
— from International Language, Past, Present & Future With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Walter John Clark


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