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Examples

• Of the numerous other telegraph instruments that have been invented since 1837, that of Mr. Morse is in most general use, especially on the Continent and in America. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Safety clutches are numerous, by which the machine is quickly and automatically stopped by the action of electro-magnets should a workman or other obstruction be caught in the machinery. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• There were numerous dragon flies--one found in the Belgian coal-measures had a wing span of twenty-nine inches! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Numerous attempts were consequently made to obtain a more sensitive material. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Numerous instances could be given. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• In a narrative not intended to be strictly technical, it would probably tire the reader to follow this material in detail through the numerous steps attending the magnetic separation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Such an arrangement of wire is known as a helix or solenoid, and is capable of lifting or pulling larger and more numerous filings and even good-sized pieces of iron, such as tacks. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The preservation of food is also dependent on ammonia, which produces the refrigerating effect in the numerous cold storage houses and artificial ice plants in this country. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Why should the brain be enclosed in a box composed of such numerous and such extraordinarily shaped pieces of bone apparently representing vertebrae? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Numerous offences had been committed in the neighbourhood; the perpetrators remained undiscovered, and their boldness increased. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• My papa lived to bail Mr. Micawber several times, and then expired, regretted by a numerous circle. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Columbus, besides being strongly fortified, contained a garrison much more numerous than the force I had with me. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The world was not slow to take advantage of the fact, hence there are in the field numerous other concerns in the same business. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There were numerous other workers in the field, but they added nothing to what had already been proposed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I was in the service of a farmer; and with crook in hand, my dog at my side, I shepherded a numerous flock on the near uplands. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Are you not even now more numerous than we are? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Probably the numerous Jews in Medina had shaken the ancient idolatry of the people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Tucking, ruffling, braiding, cording, hemming, turning, plaiting, gaging, and other attachment devices are numerous. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Among table appliances are toasters, coffee percolators, electric teapots, chafing dishes and numerous other articles that add to the convenience of preparing food. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• One of his most intimate friends was a merchant, who, from a flourishing state, fell, through numerous mischances, into poverty. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Among the other books were a primer, some child's readers, numerous picture books, and a great dictionary. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Probably each of these original tribes was not more numerous altogether than the Indians in Hudson Bay Territory to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Edward Muybridge, an Englishman, by way of experiment, placed numerous cameras at regular intervals about the track, which, by electrical contact, were snapped by the horse in passing. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Still, the more numerous and violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort--they are reliefs of pain. Plato. The Republic.
• The office-papers we placed on one side, and the private papers (which were not numerous) on the other. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Look at the numerous families of girls in this neighbourhood--the Armitages, the Birtwhistles, the Sykeses. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The 'Saturday Magazine,' 'Chambers' Journal,' the 'Magasin Pittoresque,' in France, and numerous others, owe their existence to this printing machine. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Davy recognized and explained the beneficial fertilizing effects of ammonia, and analysed and explained numerous fertilizers, including guano. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He replied that they were less numerous in some parts of the atmosphere than in others. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Were all the infinitely numerous kinds of animals and plants created as eggs or seed, or as full grown? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

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