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the ether so that it nullifies gravitation
Suppose that that zone actually does set up a barrier in the ether, so that it nullifies gravitation, magnetism, and all allied phenomena; so that the power-bars, the attractors and repellers, cannot work through it?
— from Skylark Three by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

to entirely shape them is not given
But public men can rarely do more than “rough-hew their ends;” to entirely “shape” them is not given to mortals.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 1 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

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