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3 total sentences available.
In determining this matter by instantaneous photography, the artist took the photograph of an omnibus wheel en route, and in this photograph, while the lower ends of the spokes immediately adjacent to the ground are not perceptibly unshapened by the motion, the tops of the upper spokes show an angular motion, corresponding to about ten degrees.
Source: wiktionary
In the gap of twenty years between girl and woman, what devastating life forces might have been at work, wiping bloom from cheek, dulling gleam from eves, distorting lips, smiting haggard lines on face, hardening or unshapening sweet and beloved contours, hardening, too, the mind, drying up the heart, arresting the development of the soul?
Source: wiktionary
His knife dripped with the white, just red-flecked life-blood of the stark-eyed beauty—the mullet must have turned four pounds—he’d slit open with a quick slice of his accustomed fingers—coarse, work-rough fingers, horned as well as torn by sixty years of endless labor, blunted, unshapened by coarse, relentless toil of coarse, relentless existence never shirked, never deplored; skillful, certain fingers—for in such butchery as this of his the hand of constant usage hath, as it happens, the surer sense.
Source: wiktionary
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