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  • Plainer evidence than this, in favour of the Indians, there could not well be.

    The Moonstone 2003

  • Plainer and plainer grew its surface; mountain-ranges, without crags or chasms, smooth and undulating, emerged; it was zoned with a central sunlit sea.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Various

  • Plainer and less picturesque than those of more modern construction, their air of comfort, and the creepers which cover many of their walls, make them harmonize well with their surroundings.

    The Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa Brandon Head

  • Plainer, indeed, would it be were we to analyse each separate item; for the tastes of the age and trend of men's thoughts as depicted in the pages of Master Pepys are amply reflected here.

    The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan

  • Observations made on the experiences of the blind and of those to whom vision has been restored are not very numerous, but many of these recorded by Plainer, the friend of Leibniz, and others are of the highest value, and remarkably confirm the view for which we have been contending.

    Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge Alexander Philip

  • Lazarus, Christ's apprehension etc. Plainer, Bescher. der Stadt Rom.

    The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome Charles Michael Baggs

  • _Chyrurgery_, for put of this powder in a wound where is dead flesh, and lay scrap't lint about it, and a Plainer of Disklosions next upon it, and it will heale it.

    A Book of Fruits and Flowers Anonymous

  • Any one who had read his book, _The Plain Man and his Wife and their Plainer

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 12, 1919 Various

  • Plainer and plainer they grew, till at last she felt sure that it was no dream, but that she really saw again, and that her sapphire eyes were once more just everyday blue eyes with ordinary black lashes, eyes one could wink with, and have the comfort of crying with – just eyes like other people's.

    The Golden Apple Tree 1920

  • Plainer in design, but very similar in form, is the chalice said to have belonged to St. Ledger.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

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