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The air-spaces and vacuoles below the skin separated and coalesced in an agitated activity.
When The World Screamed Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1968
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The air-spaces and vacuoles below the skin separated and coalesced in an agitated activity.
When the World Screamed Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1968
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In the main stove there are three fire-boxes and a maze of surrounding air-spaces and smoke-passages, and surmounting all a great chimney which in two-story houses is itself made into a heating-stove with one fire-box for the upper rooms.
The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 Harry H. Mead
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Then she put in a layer of twisted papers, laid the kindlings artistically, with air-spaces between the sticks, and before putting on the covers stood off to admire her work.
Glenloch Girls Grace M. Remick
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The amount of water that a soil can soak up is due to the number of pores, or air-spaces, it contains of a certain size.
Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman
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In the drowsy tranquillity of a text-book, we easily and unintelligently read of dust particles around which icy rain forms, hailstones, in their fall, then increasing by accretion -- but in the meteorological journals, we read often of air-spaces nucleating hailstones --
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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Then she put in a layer of twisted papers, laid the kindlings artistically, with air-spaces between the sticks, and before putting on the covers stood off to admire her work.
Glenloch Girls Grace M. Remick
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Again, an enormous waste is shown in the flooring, roof and air-spaces of the "tower," while this item is but a trifle in the "flat."
The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890 Various
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Then she put in a layer of twisted papers, laid the kindlings artistically, with air-spaces between the sticks, and before putting on the covers stood off to admire her work.
Glenloch Girls Grace M. Remick
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When laying the glass in the roof, which will now be ready, use _plenty_ of putty, worked sufficiently soft for the glass to be thoroughly bedded in it, and leaving no air-spaces or crevices for the rain to leak through later.
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