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  • According to Sollas, they are marked in various directions with red and black lines.

    The Book of the Damned Charles Fort

  • Sollas (_Ancient Hunters_, p. 95) M. Cartailhac has confirmed the observations of Piette, and M. Boule has found additional examples.

    The Book of the Damned Charles Fort

  • Mrs. Miniver took one look at it and wired to Sollas Airport.

    Mrs. Miniver 1939

  • Sometimes she envied the other girls their sentimental preoccupations, their long hours of inarticulate philandering with one of the few youths who still lingered in the village; but when she pictured herself curling her hair or putting a new ribbon on her hat for Ben Fry or one of the Sollas boys the fever dropped and she relapsed into indifference.

    Summer; a novel 1917

  • She even made a point of arriving before the time, and showed a laudable indignation when the youngest Targatt girl, who had been engaged to help in the cleaning and rearranging of the books, came trailing in late and neglected her task to peer through the window at the Sollas boy.

    Summer; a novel 1917

  • Sometimes she envied the other girls their sentimental preoccupations, their long hours of inarticulate philandering with one of the few youths who still lingered in the village; but when she pictured herself curling her hair or putting a new ribbon on her hat for Ben Fry or one of the Sollas boys the fever dropped and she relapsed into indifference.

    Summer Edith Wharton 1899

  • She even made a point of arriving before the time, and showed a laudable indignation when the youngest Targatt girl, who had been engaged to help in the cleaning and rearranging of the books, came trailing in late and neglected her task to peer through the window at the Sollas boy.

    Summer Edith Wharton 1899

  • Availing ourselves of Sollas 'computations, [1] we may sum the maximum depths of sedimentary deposits of the geological periods concerned as follows: --

    The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895

  • Sollas, W. J., age of Earth by sodium in ocean, 14; thickness of sediments, 6.

    The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895

  • Sollas, as the result of a careful review of the data, gets the age as between

    The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895

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