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On the contrary, if they were disproved tomorrow, the book would still be the best of its kind — the most compendious statement of well-sifted facts bearing on the doctrine of species that has ever appeared.
Essays 2007
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The covering is better if the salt is mixed into a paste using clean water and very well-sifted wood ash.
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There was no frost under there, the earth was dry and the hens had scratched in it during the winter, so Hiram got all the well-sifted earth he needed for his seed boxes.
Hiram the Young Farmer Burbank L. Todd
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Infuse a handful of well-sifted wheat bran for four hours in white wine vinegar; add to it five yolks of eggs and two grains of musk, and distill the whole.
The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Anonymous
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Morality had always been for them a matter of family custom, parental teaching of the rules of decorum, legal doctrine regarding the universality of aequitas, and, more than they knew, of puritanic instincts inherited from a well-sifted stock.
Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922
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For instance, Mr.H. C. Watson has marked for me in the well-sifted London Catalogue of Plants (4th edition) sixty-three plants which are therein ranked as species, but which he considers as so closely allied to other species as to be of doubtful value: these sixty-three reputed species range on an average over 6.9 of the provinces into which Mr. Watson has divided Great Britain.
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What scientific psychology has to attempt -- for little has been accomplished -- may be reduced to this: To develop physiology and anthropology until the mechanism of life becomes clear, at least in its general method, and then to determine, by experiment and by well-sifted testimony, what conscious sublimation each of those material situations attains, if indeed it attains any.
The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907
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On the contrary, if they were disproved to-morrow, the book would still be the best of its kind -- the most compendious statement of well-sifted facts bearing on the doctrine of species that has ever appeared.
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They exerted themselves to the utmost to gather data for a serious judgment, and returned to Paris after a sojourn of some two months, legitimately proud of the copious and well-sifted results of their research.
The Inside Story of the Peace Conference Emile Joseph Dillon 1894
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On the contrary, if they were disproved to-morrow, the book would still be the best of its kind -- the most compendious statement of well-sifted facts bearing on the doctrine of species that has ever appeared.
Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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