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declines a definition of excitability denies
A. Air , its properties—its components Animals , specific temperature of Appetite , artificial Arteries , their structure and office Assimilation , from the blood Attention , fixed on new objects B. Banks, Sir Joseph , his almost fatal experience of cold Beddoes, Dr. his remarks on temperature, Bile , its properties Blood , difference between arterial and venous contains iron changes produced on, by the different gases assimilation from Bones , mechanism of structure of Brown, Dr. John , his example followed declines a definition of excitability denies the existence of sedatives his cure of diseases of exhaustion objected to his theory will be as durable as Newton's philosophy not aware of the extent of his own theory C. Camera obscura Colour of different nations Cooper, Mr. Astley , successfully perforates the tympanum of the ear Circulation of the blood through the lungs through the liver affected by centrifugal force discovered by Harvey, and derided Cullen, Dr. his system defective Currie, Dr. his treatment of typhus D. Darwin, Dr. quoted Digestion , organs of process of diseases affecting Diseases sthenic asthenic fallacy of symptoms Diseases , method of cure spasmodic, of extreme vess.
— from Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Thomas Garnett

done any day or every day
Our illustrious president was in inimitable glee; and poor Goldsmith that day took all his raillery as patiently and complacently as my friend Boswell would have done any day or every day of his life.
— from Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography by Washington Irving

dark And dread of endless doom
"If all my life were in the dark And dread of endless doom, Think you that I should fail the spark That gleamed athwart the gloom— "My moment when I soared to bliss Upon a woman's lips And that revealing word—her kiss— Thrilled to my finger tips?
— from The Piper and the Reed by Robert Winkworth Norwood

Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh Duke
There were quite a lot of Princes—Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince Waldemar of Denmark, Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, Duke of Cambridge and Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar.
— from Letters of a Diplomat's Wife, 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington

decay and death of every dogma
These errors are a mere repetition of what has always taken place at the decay and death of every dogma, and will—as they always have done—sooner or later wear away.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

declining all denial or even defence
The whole style and tenor of these accusations, as well as the nature of them, rendered Mr. Hastings's first postponing, and afterwards totally declining, all denial, or even defence or explanation, very extraordinary.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) by Edmund Burke


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