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reason enough for the extra length
But chairs, table, wine flasks, and dice were all the room contained, and there was reason enough for the extra length of visage that master Nicholas and his knaves had pulled.
— from The Chevalier d'Auriac by S. (Sidney) Levett Yeats

rays emanating from the electric light
The same thing happens when we make the rays emanating from the electric light pass through a prism, because in this case there is combustion, that is to say, a combination of the oxygen in charcoals, mixed with foreign matter, from which is produced the voltaic bow.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

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