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our danger and insolation only accentuated the incompatibility
1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
These were business hours, and a feeling of loneliness crept over him, perhaps germinated by his sight of the illustrated papers, and accentuated by an attempted perusal of them.
1962 March, “The New Year Freeze-up on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 159:
Attempts by Waterloo signalmen to clear the points by power operation eventually exhausted point motor batteries, which are fed by trickle chargers, and a blown fuse accentuated the problem; thus, even when the points had been cleared of ice, no power was available to operate them until the batteries were sufficiently recharged.
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