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never escapes without a great effusion
Why then does it occur, that in miscarriages of the first and second month this ball never escapes without a great effusion of blood?
— from Buffon's Natural History, Volume 03 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c. by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

noticed every where a great extent
During my recent examination of the middle and northern districts of China, I noticed every where a great extent of reclaimed land.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 398, December 1848 by Various


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