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• The electrical features of the 1882 locomotive were very similar to those of the earlier one, already described. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Tell him that we yield to his rapacity, as in similar circumstances we should do to that of a literal robber. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I have eight or ten similar cases maturing. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He made sundials, water clocks, and similar apparatus, a little last gleam of experimental science in the gathering ignorance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The impulse under which I acted, the mood controlling me, were similar to the impulse and the mood which had induced me to visit the confessional. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• That bridge, though of different material, was in its principle of construction similar to the iron tubular bridges at Conway and at the Menai Straits. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• There are, we may note, some very striking resemblances between early Japanese pottery and so forth and similar Peruvian productions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Reflecting upon these and similar evils, you held the tyrannical State to be the most miserable of States? Plato. The Republic.
• This is finished similar to the maple strips. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Formerly augers and similar boring tools had merely a curved sharpened end and a concavity to hold the chips, and the whole tool had to be withdrawn to empty the chips. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Yes, I said; and there are many other things which must also have a similar extension given to them, if our legislation is to be of any value. Plato. The Republic.
• A number of others similar to the Holland were subsequently built. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Skirmishes of this sort passed perpetually during the little campaign--tedious to relate, and similar in result. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• In 1784, Mr. Bramah obtained a patent for a propeller similar in its forms to the vanes of a windmill, which by acting obliquely on the water as it revolved, pushed the boat forward. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• My methods are similar to those followed by Luther Burbank. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Hence the supposed extermination of so many species having similar habits with the rock-pigeon seems a very rash assumption. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Similar risings had already occurred in Sicily. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They are invisible rays transmitted through the air in a manner similar to light. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He had seen the prisoner show these identical lists to French gentlemen at Calais, and similar lists to French gentlemen, both at Calais and Boulogne. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• What we wished for was little lights, and a distribution of them to people’s houses in a manner similar to gas. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• When Parliament refused supplies, he demanded loans from various subjects, and attempted similar illegal exactions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Across the street, which sloped steeply, was another hotel with a similar wall and garden. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Under similar circumstances, revive me the illustrious Newton. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• In the beginning of his experimentation he had made the conditions of test very severe by the construction of forms similar to that shown in the sketch below. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Denis Johnson patented in England in 1818 a similar vehicle which he named the Pedestrian Curricle. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I listened--and under similar circumstances I would listen again--yes! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The window, placed at the side of the oblong, looked to the blank wall of a similar projection, not above ten feet distant. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Similar rods support the opposite electrodes of the tank. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Just thirty years later, on a similar trip over the same ground, he jotted down for this volume some of his reminiscences. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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