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It assumed the strange outline of a gigantic human body, all its intricacies becoming orderly correspondencies of the human organism in its multitudinous ramifications.

From Within the Temple of Isis by Wagner, Belle M.

She was very early happy in the conversation-visits of her learned and worthy Dr. Lewen, and in her correspondencies, not with him only, but with other Divines mentioned in her last Will.

From Clarissa: Preface, Hints of Prefaces, and Postscript by Richardson, Samuel

She was very early happy in the conversation-visits of her learned and worthy Dr. Lewen, and in her correspondencies, not with him only, but with other divines mentioned in her last will.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 by Richardson, Samuel

First, the virtues taught in the family have their correspondencies in the wider sphere.

From The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1 by Legge, James

There are, moreover, two other correspondencies between Saint John's history of the transaction and theirs, of a kind somewhat different from those which we have been now mentioning.

From Evidence of Christianity by Paley, William