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law and process is ever renewing
Nature, on this earth, under electric law and process, is ever renewing herself.
— from The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Geo. W. (George Woodward) Warder

lighted and placed in every room
The door was now closed and barred; candles were lighted and placed in every room, thick cloths having been hung up before the loopholes in the shutters, to prevent a ray of light from escaping; and the windows themselves were opened.
— from On the Pampas; Or, The Young Settlers by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

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