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if making a great effort driven
"That his friends can never be yours", said Chichester, as if making a great effort, driven to it by some intense feeling.
— from The Dweller on the Threshold by Robert Hichens

is milled and graduated each degree
The specimen is held in a clamp which may be removed from the instrument, and which is raised by a micrometer screw to which a large disc is attached, the edge of which is milled and graduated, each degree of the graduation representing an elevation of the specimen of 1/100 mm.
— from Microscopes and Accessory Apparatus: Catalogue No. 40 by Ernst Leitz

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