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In his movement, studied and unprecipitated, there was resolution and menace.
Cinnamon Roll 2010
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It was as though strange, unprecipitated events were clinging round her slender body like an aura: the promises of unparalleled adventures in love, perhaps also in tragedy.
Sacrifice Stephen French Whitman
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White and Arkansas carry in their waters a large amount of unprecipitated matter.
Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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But he thinks all that a prejudice; and not from any want of intellectual power certainly, but from some inward consideration, some afterthought, from the antecedent gravitation of his own general character -- or, will you say? from that unprecipitated infusion of fallacy in him -- he fails to draw, unlike almost all the rest of the world, the conclusion ready to hand.
Appreciations, with an Essay on Style Walter Pater 1866
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When the barometer is high, the weight of the ærial column is increased, and conversely; a column of air, in proportion to its impregnation with aqueous vapor in true solution, or as vapor and unprecipitated, being able to outweigh variable columns of mercury.
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This cause of devaporation has been ingeniously explained by Dr. Hutton in the Transact. of Edinburgh, Vol. I, and seems to arise from this circumstance; the particles of air of the N.E. wind educe part of the heat from the S.W. wind, and therefore the water which was dissolved by that quantity of _heat_ is precipitated; all the other part of the water, which was suspended by its attraction to the particles of air, or dissolved in the remainder of the heat, continues unprecipitated.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766
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