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  • The storage battery also generates electric current through chemical action, but without involving the constant repriming with active materials to replace those consumed and exhausted as above mentioned.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2 1910

  • The storage battery also generates electric current through chemical action, but without involving the constant repriming with active materials to replace those consumed and exhausted as above mentioned.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905

  • There was nothing to be found except the sailors 'knives, but as a matter of precaution Hornblower had them all impounded, and when he had dressed he went to special trouble with his three pistols, drawing the charges from them and reloading and repriming afresh.

    Mr. Midshipman Easy Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848 1873

  • "The instant the poor fellows made a motion towards repriming, the bushranger discharged his gun, and one fell.

    The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia William Henry Thomes 1859

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