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suffered and in looking sighs Such
And as he is who falls, and knows not how, By force of demons who to earth down drag him, Or other oppilation that binds man, When he arises and around him looks, Wholly bewildered by the mighty anguish Which he has suffered, and in looking sighs; Such was that sinner after he had risen.
— from Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri

so abundantly in Lower Silurian seas
Many of the old genera, which flourished so abundantly in Lower Silurian seas, have now died out; and the group is represented chiefly by species of Cheirurus, Encrinurus, Harpes, Proetus, Lichas, Acidaspis, Illœnus, Calymene, Homalonotus , and Phacops —the last of these, one of the Page 124 highest and most beautiful of the groups of Trilobites, attaining here its maximum of development.
— from The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Henry Alleyne Nicholson

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