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The trees in vallies are on this account more injured by the vernal frosts than those on eminencies, because their early succulent shoots come out sooner.

From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Darwin, Erasmus

America has shaken down more eminencies into notorieties than any other country in the world—it is a severe and terrible ordeal for great foreigners.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various