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Wt. 58.5 | magnesium | gives a milkiness, or precipitate,
Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 Various
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Gave his limbs to right and left, quenched: and so fell he precipitate,
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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A natural and unnatural manner seemed struggling in all her gestures, and in every syllable that she articulated -- a naturally free, familiar, good-natured, precipitate,
Tales and Novels — Volume 06 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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"With young Carlton out of the way, and separated, as they will be, for years, any rising passion she may now feel for him will soon die out, and if you make your advances with caution, and be not too precipitate,
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