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knowledge in practical physics surgery
The questions were well calculated to sound the depth of a student’s knowledge in practical physics, surgery, anatomy, chemistry, materia medica, and physiology; but the professors were not very severe in exacting accurate answers.
— from The Royal Institution: Its Founder and First Professors by Bence Jones

Kronberg in Potash Perlmutter s
So eagerly did Morris await the advent of Uncle Mosha Kronberg in Potash & Perlmutter's store that he even omitted to notice his partner's prolonged absence at lunch; and when Abe returned to unfold the narrative of his meeting with a prospective customer Morris heard it without interest.
— from Abe and Mawruss: Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter by Montague Glass

know it precisely probably she
As to his opinion of Donna Prassede, we do not know it precisely; probably she was not a person he would have chosen for Lucy's protectress; but it was not his habit to undo things, apparently ordered by Providence, in order to do them better.
— from The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni

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