When he had been speaking eight hours his pulse was 72; when he had spoken twelve, it was 100. He finished his long speech in these terms, as nearly as a permissibly free translation can convey them: 'I will now hasten to close my examination of the subject.
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Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) Last Updated: February 18, 2009
As for Beatrice, she is as perfect a lady, though of a far different age and breeding, as Celimene or Millamant; and a decidedly more perfect woman than could properly or permissibly have trod the stage of Congreve or Moliere.
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In such cases also the fact that the stack diameter is permissibly decreased is no reason why flue sizes connecting to the stack should be decreased.
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