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disturbance of nervous elements disappears
Maudsley points out correctly that we can have no memory of pain—“because the disturbance of nervous elements disappears just as soon as their integrity is again established.”
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

duke of Nerbia Espartafilardo del
But turn thine eyes to the other side, and thou shalt see in front and in the van of this other army the ever victorious and never vanquished Timonel of Carcajona, prince of New Biscay, who comes in armour with arms quartered azure, vert, white, and yellow, and bears on his shield a cat or on a field tawny with a motto which says Miau, which is the beginning of the name of his lady, who according to report is the peerless Miaulina, daughter of the duke Alfeniquen of the Algarve; the other, who burdens and presses the loins of that powerful charger and bears arms white as snow and a shield blank and without any device, is a novice knight, a Frenchman by birth, Pierres Papin by name, lord of the baronies of Utrique; that other, who with iron-shod heels strikes the flanks of that nimble parti-coloured zebra, and for arms bears azure vair, is the mighty duke of Nerbia, Espartafilardo del Bosque, who bears for device on his shield an asparagus plant with a motto in Castilian that says, Rastrea mi suerte.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

duke of Nerbia Espartafilardo del
But turn thine eyes to the other side, and thou shalt see in front and in the van of this other army the ever victorious and never vanquished Timonel of Carcajona, prince of New Biscay, who comes in armour with arms quartered azure, vert, white, and yellow, and bears on his shield a cat or on a field tawny with a motto which says Miau, which is the beginning of the name of his lady, who according to report is the peerless Miaulina, daughter of the duke Alfeniquen of the Algarve; the other, who burdens and presses the loins of that powerful charger and bears arms white as snow and a shield blank and without any device, is a novice knight, a Frenchman by birth, Pierres Papin by name, lord of the baronies of Utrique; that other, who with iron-shod heels strikes the flanks of that nimble parti-coloured zebra, and for arms bears azure vair, is the mighty duke of Nerbia, Espartafilardo del Bosque, who bears for device on his shield an asparagus plant with a motto in Castilian that says, Rastrea mi suerte.”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

dreamed of nothing else during
She had dreamed of nothing else during the whole of the previous night, excepting a short interlude in the aforesaid dream, when she was night-mared by a fat pig, bestrode by a half-starved boy, who was all eyes.
— from The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 by Various

do our numerous ecclesiastical divisions
At the meeting I lamented, as I am accustomed to do, our numerous ecclesiastical divisions.
— from Recollections of a Long Life by John Stoughton

Director of Negro Economies during
E. Haynes, U. S. Director of Negro Economies, during the World War; Perry W. Howard, Special Ass’t U. S. Attorney General; E. H. Hewlett, Judge, Municipal Court, Washington, D.C.; Henry Lincoln Johnson, Recorder of Deeds and Republican National Committeeman, Washington, D.C.; J. E. Lee, Collector Internal Revenue, Florida;
— from Colored girls and boys' inspiring United States history and a heart to heart talk about white folks by William Henry Harrison

Director of Negro Economics during
E. Haynes, Columbia graduate, U. S. Director of Negro Economics during the World War, and Dr. R. R. Wright Jr., graduate of the University of Pa., and editor of the Christian Recorder, Phila., Pa., are the two leading American Colored authorities on economic data relative to the all-round labor, industrial and living conditions of the Colored people in America.
— from Colored girls and boys' inspiring United States history and a heart to heart talk about white folks by William Henry Harrison

Delirium of narcotics Exhaustion Disease
Excitement Sympathy, Exalted joy, Deep grief, Love, Hatred, Protracted anxiety, Delirium of fever, Delirium of alcohol, Delirium of narcotics, Exhaustion, Disease of the brain.
— from The Philosophy of Mystery by Walter Cooper Dendy

DISLOYALTY OF NEW ENGLAND DURING
A law passed at Vincennes, now Indiana, against gambling.. PRESIDENT JEFFERSON'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS BLANK COMMISSION FOR PRIVATEER IN WAR OF 1812 DISLOYALTY OF NEW ENGLAND DURING THE WAR THE PRESIDENT'S TEMPORARY RESIDENCE, 1815 MAP SHOWING ADVANCE OF POPULATION THE CAPITOL BURNED BY THE BRITISH ARMY From Torrey's "American Slave Trader." WASHINGTON
— from The United States of America, Part 1: 1783-1830 by Edwin Erle Sparks


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