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... down: "Wagner has something singularly attractive to me, and if we both have asperities, those asperities dovetail into ...

— Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 2 • Francis Hueffer (translator)

... facts themselves, but can only be regarded as invested with greater or less probability. If it is found that these theories do explain many observed facts, that they harmonize with, and as it were dovetail into any proposed interpretation of which the words of Moses are capable; and still more if that interpretation actually completes the defective points of the theories, and supplies an adequate cause for facts ...

— The Story of Creation as told by Theology and by Science • T. S. Ackland

... somewhere in the house a clock struck the hour. Five o'clock! He raised his head. YES! It could be done! There was a way! He had the germ of it now. And now the plan began to grow, to take form and shape in his mind, to dovetail, to knit the integral parts into a comprehensive whole. There was a way—but he must have assistance. Jason—yes, assuredly. Benson, his chauffeur—yes, equally as trustworthy as Jason. Benson was devoted to him; and moreover Benson was young, alert, daring, cool. He ...

— The Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard

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