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  • Their mouth is of moderate width, oblique, and armed with small but firmly set teeth.
  • If the latitudes differ, we have to solve an oblique-angled spherical triangle, of which two sides and the included angle are given.
  • The typical Siamese is of medium height, well formed, with olive complexion, darker than the Chinese, but fairer than the Malays, eyes well shaped though slightly inclined to the oblique, nose broad and flat, lips prominent, the face wide across the cheek-bones and the chin short.
  • The greatness of the thickness, as it has been measured, is also due in part to the oblique position in which the beds of sediment were originally deposited.
  • By E., that is to say, slightly oblique to the general direction of this part of the island.
 
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