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But he noted that the boulders are only one part of the evidence that he has adduced to support the superstorm hypothesis.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2017

Sir H. De la Beche has adduced several proofs of changes of level, in the course of the human period, in his "Report on the Geology of Cornwall and Devon," 1839.

From The Antiquity of Man by Lyell, Charles, Sir

If so, we should add two or three generations in the examples which Dr. Colenso has adduced from the family of Pallu.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, August 1865 by Clergymen, Society of

M. Chevalier has adduced an exactly corresponding case from one of the French coalfields.

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur

He has worked it out more thoroughly, and has adduced embryological evidence in its support; but the views of both writers are substantially the same, and their theories were arrived at quite independently.

From Darwinism (1889) by Wallace, Alfred Russel