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Which of these sentences from herman melville's short story "the lightning-rod man" is an example of allusion?

it is the safest thing you can do—hark, again! —to get yourself thoroughly drenched in a thunder-storm.

who has empowered you, you tetzel, to peddle round your indulgences from divine ordinations?

will you order one of my rods? look at this specimen one? see: it is of the best of copper. copper's the best conductor.

briefly, then. i avoid pine-trees, high houses, lonely barns, upland pastures, running water, flocks of cattle and sheep, a crowd of men.

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