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to reside in or visit a licensed
16.—The physician, surgeon, or apothecary not being a licensee, where any such is by law required to reside in or visit a licensed house, must in the metropolitan district be approved of by the Commissioners, and in the provincial district by the visiting justices.
— from Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke

the returning impact of volition and left
"It was the close of a Martian day that I felt the returning impact of volition and left the chorus hall.
— from The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars Being the Posthumous Papers of Bradford Torrey Dodd by L. P. (Louis Pope) Gratacap

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