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Mr Brown said that he despises what he called "ray-shists", and I have absolutely no doubt that he does.
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Mr Brown said that he despises what he called "ray-shists", and I have absolutely no doubt that he does.
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The rotting slates, shales, sandstones, shists, and rocks of various kinds, were often ploughed up by the road-sides, and the _débris_ scraped into the centre of the road-beds; the heaviest ploughs of that day being used to cut through these wayside rocks, and often requiring as many as six or eight yoke of oxen to break the necessary furrow.
Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright
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In many of these decaying slates, shists, sandstones etc., hundreds of young toads, many of them not more than half an inch in length, were turned out at different seasons of the year, showing that they were produced independently of any parent batrachian, there being no trace of a mother toad in connection with them.
Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright
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