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marble except that heat is not employed
Alabaster is occasionally stained or coloured, and, for the calcareous variety, in a similar way to marble, except that heat is not employed; and for the gypseous variety, in the manner noticed under Plaster OF Paris .
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

man escaped There he is now entering
Only one man escaped— There he is now, entering the mission.
— from White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien

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