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• Its sides were slightly convex, and when closed and pinched slightly, it sprang back with a hearty cracking noise. —  Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
• Shape it so as to be bi-convex, and a picture appears in its focus Is not the formation of the picture a "function" of the piece of glass thus shaped So, from your own point of view, suppose a mind-stuff—logos—-a noumenal cosmic light such as is shadowed in the fourth gospel. —  The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3
• The spikelets are plano-convex, orbicular to oblong, obtuse, secund, 2-ranked on the flattened or triquetrous rachis of the spike-like branches of a raceme, one-flowered and falling off entire from the very short or obscure pedicels. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• The sole being now convex, the diseased tissues bear unusual weight by coming in contact with the ground, and hence it is that these animals are generally incurable cripples In most cases in which the sole is raised to meet the pedal bone and pumiced sole occurs it is due not to pressure of the bone from within (for the tissues are capable of adapting themselves to the gradual change) but to impaired vitality of the sensitive tissues from the inflammation and to the constant concussion and pressure applied from without during progression. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
• One that is flat on one side and bulges out on the other is called a convex lens_; if it bulges out on both sides it is a double convex lens_; if it is hollowed in on one side and flat on the other it is a concave lens_; if hollowed in on both sides we call it a double concave lens_; and when it is hollowed in on one side and bulged out on the other, as any watch crystal does, it is a concave convex lens Where did you learn all that, Sam?" —  The Big Brother A Story of Indian War

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