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Now and then their surfaces present slight variations from planeness, but they are minor.

From The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin by Atwood, Wallace W.

But then this smoothness and uniformity, or, in other words, this planeness of the picture, is not perceived immediately by vision: for it appeareth to the eye various and multiform.

From A Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision by Berkeley, George

Much of it indeed is so nearly plane that if the water were withdrawn, the eye would scarcely detect any departure from planeness.

From The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin by Atwood, Wallace W.