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The dispersion of the mass, far from making the whole less, as our literary friend so ingenuously assumes, increases it to what mathematicians call the _n_th power because each particle, finding a new restingplace unhampered by the competition for food it encountered when integrated with the parent mass, now becomes capable of spreading infinitely itself unless checked by factors which deprive it of sustenance.

Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

What a happiness it is, Philip, for us poor devils, that we have a little restingplace between the camp and the grave, if we can manage to escape disease, and steel, and lead, and the effects of hard living.

Chapter XXI 1917

Hatton (414 feet above the sea-level) is a restingplace for tourists or pilgrims on their way up Sumana, or Adam s Peak (7400 feet), where

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

God it is who has made for you the earth as a restingplace, and a heaven as building, and has formed you and made excellent your forms; and has provided you with good things! there is God for you!

Mecca Suras. The Chapter of the Believer. 1909

S: Or, Who made the earth a restingplace, and made in it rivers, and raised on it mountains and placed between the two seas a barrier.

Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902

Neither has any other station a modern copy of a Queen Eleanor's Cross, but this is doubtless because no other station was the last of these points where her coffin was set down on its way from Lincoln to its final restingplace in

London Films William Dean Howells 1878

The old Palace of Scone, under the guardianship of Lord Mansfield, was the restingplace for the night.

Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1 Sarah Tytler 1870

Near to this solitary restingplace of the ashes of our forefathers -- the Harknesses, the Gibsons, and the Watsons of Closeburn from time immemorial -- there stood, at that time, an old cottage, straw or rather

Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 John Mackay Wilson 1819

- There certainly does seem no convenient restingplace on the other road.

Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others 1796

It's the oldest cemetery still in use in the Germanspeaking world, and the final restingplace of artists, scholars, merchants and nobility.

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