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Polyp and yet nothing is more
One may ask how the narrow radiating tubes of the Acalephs, traversing the gelatinous mass of the body, can be compared to the wide radiating chambers of the Polyp; and yet nothing is more simple than to thicken the partitions in the Polyps so much as to narrow the chambers between them, till they form narrow alleys instead of wide spaces, and then we have the tubes of the Jelly-Fish.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

poassible an you naegait ithin my
ken hoo it'll be poassible, an' you naegait 'ithin my sicht or my cry, or the hearin' o' my ears.
— from Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald

pause and your name is Mohammed
"You come from Cavalla," says he, after a pause, "and your name is Mohammed Ali?
— from Mohammed Ali and His House by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

print and your note is manuscript
But I have still a stronger proof; my Lord Coke says "Set a thief to catch a thief;" my Lord Advocate(495) says, "Sir Thomas is a rogue:" ergo.—I cannot give so complete an answer to the rest of your note, as I trust I have done to your pleadings, because the latter is in print, and your note is manuscript.
— from The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole


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