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SECTION IN MODIFICATION OF NORMAL EXCITABILITY
EFFECT OF WOUND OR SECTION IN MODIFICATION OF NORMAL EXCITABILITY.
— from Life Movements in Plants, Volume I by Jagadis Chandra Bose

some interesting matter on Nationalism especially
ii. contains some interesting matter on Nationalism, especially of course as it has been developed in Russia.
— from The War and Democracy by John Dover Wilson

Sex is made of nothing else
Fool, our whole Sex is made of nothing else: Thou mayst sooner untie the Gordian Knot, expound the Problems of the monstrous Sphynx , and read what is decreed in the mysterious Book of Fate, than unfold a Woman’s sly malitious Meaning.
— from The City Bride (1696) Or, The Merry Cuckold by Joseph Harris

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