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James Tissot, frontispiece to Ballads and Songs of Brittany by Théodore Hersart de La Villemarqué, Cambridge, London: 1865.

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London about me gazed at me spectrally. The windows in the white houses were like the eye sockets of skulls.
Henrique Alvim Corrêa from La guerre des mondes by Herbert George Wells, Brussels: 1906.

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Rubber dam applied to four lower incisors.
From Lehrbuch und Atlas der konservierenden Zahnheilkunde by Gustav Preiswerk, Munich: 1912.

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Pale isabella kissed it and low moan’d.
Robert Anning Bell from Poems by John Keats London, New York: 1897.

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Part 3, plate 36.
From Album du moyen-âge by Jean Midolle, Strasbourg: 1836.

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The submarine boat “Argonaut” on a wrecking expedition.
From The Boy’s Book of Inventions; Stories of the Wonders of Modern Science by Ray Stannard Baker, New York: 1899.

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… Closer still she crept,
Holding the lamp aloft, until his breath
Was hot upon her cheek….
Arthur Boyd Houghton from North Coast, and Other Poems by Robert Williams Buchanan, London, New York: 1868.

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Colossal lion, Great Entrance (Nimroud).
From A Second Series of the Monuments of Nineveh by Austen Henry Layard, London: 1853.

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