“Mary Ford, of a sanguineous and robust constitution, had an involuntary motion of her right arm, occasioned by a fright, which first brought on convulsion fits, and most excruciating pain in the stomach, which vanished on a sudden, and her right arm was instantaneously flung into an involuntary and perpetual motion, like the swing of a pendulum, raising the hand, at every vibration higher than her head; but if by any means whatever it was stopped; the pain in her stomach came on again, and convulsion fits were the certain consequence, which went off when the vibration of her hand returned.” — from An Essay on the Shaking Palsy by James Parkinson
The aëroplane man gets the most definite impression at the A. R. C. Hospital at Issordun, which was typical at these field institutions "The best of all remains—the influence of neighborliness, friendship, kindness, and sympathy—these are made of the stuff which no chemistry of war can crush. — from With the Doughboy in France: A Few Chapters of an American Effort by Edward Hungerford
and reefer caught his arm in
Tell me, do you know yet what day you sail?" § 8 A sailor in a jersey and reefer caught his arm in the Avenida de Mayo.... "All filled up." — from The Wind Bloweth by Donn Byrne
and relate concerning him Acts i
The account then proceeds to state, "that a few days after his departure, these persons, with some of his relations, and some who had regularly frequented their society, assembled at Jerusalem; that, considering the office of preaching the religion as now devolved upon them, and one of their number having deserted the cause, and, repenting of his perfidy, having destroyed himself, they proceeded to elect another into his place, and that they were careful to make their election out of the number of those who had accompanied their master from the first to the last, in order, as they alleged, that he might be a witness, together with themselves, of the principal facts which they were about to produce and relate concerning him; ( Acts i. 12, 22.) — from Evidences of Christianity by William Paley
a railway carriage has an illusory
The traveller in a railway carriage has an illusory perception of the landscape flying by him while he is sitting still. — from Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau
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