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mobility and sensation show extreme disorder
The congested nervous centers only communicate confused sensations and volitions; mobility and sensation show extreme disorder; the limbs are seized by convulsions and sometimes by cramps, or are thrown wildly about or become stiff like iron bars.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy by Havelock Ellis

mouth and say something exclaimed Diane
And yet— "Do take that ridiculous pipe out of your mouth and say something!" exclaimed Diane restlessly.
— from Diane of the Green Van by Leona Dalrymple

modern American stories so earnest direct
Mr 21 ‘17 950w “I have seen few modern American stories so earnest, direct, free from palaver and sentimentality. ...
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

mouth about South South East distant
After a sleep of five or six hours we once more set out, and walked eighteen or nineteen miles to the South South East, when we arrived at one of the copper mines, which lies, from the river's mouth about South South East, distant about twenty-nine or thirty miles.
— from A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by Samuel Hearne


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