Usage examples for element
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But then they'd probably have been spotted, and lost the precious element of surprise. – Slingshot by Irving W. Lande
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The existence of such an element-? – The Awkward Age by Henry James
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It is not the rebel element, perhaps, but the nature of things, that the South should not realize the complete overthrow of the old order and the necessity for a complete change of the domestic policy. – The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White