The noticeable peculiarity in this is the change of the arcade, supporting the clearstory wall, from a single uniform line of equal columns supporting equal arches, to a more organized structure of {75} two great piers with two responds
— from How to judge architecture: a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings by Russell Sturgis
Nothing loth, the boy standing on tiptoe reached up and touched the ball with his fingers, when his playful uncle gave a turn to a wheel and the boy received a slight shock, and with it a first, and somewhat unexpected, lesson on the nature of electricity.
— from Michael Faraday, Man of Science by Walter Jerrold
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