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galvanic battery of a relentless despotism
She has sacrificed it on the Altar of Militarism, and has set up the galvanic battery of a relentless despotism and crude materialism in its place.
— from Round about Bar-le-Duc by Susanne R. (Susanne Rouviere) Day

grooves being of a regular depth
The nut should also be made to slant down towards the peg box (diagram 8), the grooves being of a regular depth on this and not deeper at the top (diagram 9).
— from The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. by Horace Petherick

girl born of a Russian dancer
Of course the Lasky people aren’t telling around just yet what the story is to be about, but the gossips whisper that it’s to be like this: A girl, born of a Russian dancer mother, and a staid American father, grows up into a beautiful woman.
— from Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2, No. 21, June, 1921 America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy by Various

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