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Examples

• His labors, however, were interrupt ed by the death of his assistant Flemming, and by his own illness, which proved fatal in 1846, a few months before the actual discovery of Neptune. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The atom, to be sure, can no longer be consider ed the smallest unit of matter, as the mass of a β particle is approximately one seventeen-hundredths that of an atom of hydrogen. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• As a great modern philosopher has said, Aristotle press ed his way through the mass of things knowable, and subjected its diversity to the power of his thought. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Later he invent ed simple pendulum devices for timing the pulse of patients, and even made some advances in applying his discovery in the construction of pendulum clocks. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Nevertheless, Bacon was not wrong in pointing out the virtues of a method which he and many others turn ed to good account. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• They also contriv ed to temper the metal, and to make helmets, swords, lance-points, ploughs, tools, and other implements of iron. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I myself have _luge-ed_ into the streets of Montreux. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• This great physicist had prov ed t hat cathode rays are composed not of negatively charged molecules, as had been supposed, but of much smaller particles or corp uscles. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Ed'cated at no end of expense. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I never was so much surprised in all my life,--couldn't credit my own ed,--to tell you the truth, hardly believed it were my own ed. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

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