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Dangerfield rose and performed exactly the same
As he concluded, Governor Dangerfield rose and performed exactly the same solemn rite with the jug before him, pouring whisky into one glass, buttermilk into the other, and leaning across the table he touched his tumbler of buttermilk to that extended by Governor Osborne.
— from The Little Brown Jug at Kildare by Meredith Nicholson

degrees required a pressure equal to sixty
A dozen gases were reduced in this way; among them were the following, which we shall need: Ammonia, sulphurous acid, carbonic acid, and protoxide of nitrogen, which at a temperature of ten degrees required a pressure equal to sixty atmospheres.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, July 1885, No. 10 by Chautauqua Institution

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