The quality of fiber phone lines made the silence all the more deafening.
— from Terminal Compromise by Winn Schwartau
"The absence of papillae below the tarsal joint in Emperor embryos, together with the fact that in many birds each large feather papilla is accompanied by two or more very small feather papillae, led me to study the papillae of the limbs of other birds.
— from The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
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