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rest as red is from yellow
[4] Now, as every ray of homogeneous light which we can perceive at all, appears to us as a distinct color, it becomes probable that these ultra-violet rays must make themselves apparent to animals as a distinct and separate color (of which we can form no idea), but as different from the rest as red is from yellow, or green from violet.
— from The Pleasures of Life by Lubbock, John, Sir

Regulations All right interjected Frere you
By the King's Regulations—” “All right,” interjected Frere, “you needn't quote 'em.
— from For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke


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