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the host is seven to eight days
The first moult takes place about three days after penetration, and the total period of residence in the host is seven to eight days.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

that his inmost sensations towards Eugenie de
When she did return to Maine, he greeted her with what he fancied brotherly affection; and though when he beheld his cousin apparently neglecting her, to pay devoted attention to the gay and sparkling beauties of the royal court, he felt a degree of anger and indignation on Eugenie's account, which made him devote himself entirely to her, he would have considered those feelings--had he thought of the matter in such a light at all--as the surest proofs that his inmost sensations towards Eugenie de Menancourt were merely those of a relation, inasmuch as, instead of feeling jealous of the attentions his cousin paid her, he was angry that those attentions were not more.
— from One in a Thousand; or, The Days of Henri Quatre by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

the hill I see the easy decline
I am over the brow of the hill; I see the easy decline of the road—it doesn't seem as long as when I climbed the other half."
— from Visionaries by James Huneker

Tychicus have I sent to Ephesus do
4:12, however, "Tychicus have I sent to Ephesus," do not favor this supposition.
— from Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows


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