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less easily excited receive more
Women and children who have a weak fleshy texture, have a very great nervous mobility; men on the contrary, those especially with athletic forms, whose nervous systems are less easily excited, receive more rarely the causes of a strong influence upon their muscles.
— from General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Xavier Bichat

la está escuchando Rodriguez Marin
[395] la está mirando; Un mudo la está leyendo; Y un sordo la está escuchando.” (Rodriguez Marin, Cantos Populares Españoles , tom.
— from The Bible in Spain, Vol. 2 [of 2] Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow

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