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...into a tear that never fully falls as he settles again into a nauseated waiting a concentrated breathing and an occasional ironic chuckle after every stroke my dad threw up and then he died how long can one endure a constant tremor a question I want an answer to but know growing older perhaps that one will not arrive that what can’t go on does damage  when it does there...

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...e punishment for violating this is 6 months in jail, a large fine, and 20 strokes with the cane administered by a martial arts master. There are also... ... of robots for surgery. They do the work of physiotherapists in exercising stroke and other paralysis victims. They work many more hours a day than t... ...ny of us have? What are the rights of murderers or of 100 year old massive stroke victims? What about AIDS orphans? Terrorists? Young women? 80 year ...

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...onor bestowed for an honor. She watched as the Yata continued to write. His strokes whispered on the parchment, his script fluid and unhurried. Even... ...mon voice, that one. Just an innocent boy asking an innocent question. Zai stroked her children's tiny heads, nestling her palm against their fuzzy... ...erior neck fuzz upwards, drawing brush from clavicle to chin, following her strokes to each end of her jawbone. From there she brushed down along th... ...ne of desperation as TripStone lay dying by her own foolishness. With short strokes she brushed her pectoral fur, easing the bristles between her br...

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...bear sharp speeches to her: she’s a lady So tender of rebukes that words are strokes And strokes death to her. [Re enter Attendant .] CYMBELINE: ... ... frown o’ the great; Thou art past the tyrant’s stroke; Care no more to clothe and eat; ... ... The harmony of this peace. The vision Which I made known to Lucius, ere the stroke Of this yet scarce cold battle, at this instant Is full accomplish...

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...upwards. Hadji Murad did the same; then after repeating a prayer they both stroked their faces, pass- ing their hands downwards till the palms joined ... ...ed his palms upwards, as the old man had done, repeated a prayer, and then stroked his face down- wards. Only after that did he begin to speak. He tol... ...red the son. “What?” said the old man, frowning sternly and miss- ing a stroke. The son silently took a flail and they began threshing with four... ... trousers have hardly anything to hand on!” said the old man, omitting his stroke and only swinging his flail in the air so as not to get out of time.... ...dding his unnaturally huge flourish. Nicholas knew that twelve thousand strokes with the regulation rods were not only certain death with tor- ture... ...n death with tor- ture, but were a superfluous cruelty , for five thousand strokes were sufficient to kill the strongest man. But it pleased him to be... ...palms upwards, closed his eyes and recited a 101 Tolstoy prayer, and then stroked his face downwards with both hands, uniting them at the end of his ...

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...er the rat on the off side really got home with one of those slashing down strokes of the teeth (given with the full weight of the body); and the doct... ...has founded a branch for T emperance in Growth.” “Mm,” said Bensington and stroked his nose. “After all that has happened there’s bound to be this up-... ... as you can and as soon as you can. Spread it about!” He was inspired to a stroke of wit. He parodied one of Redwood’s curves with a vast upward sweep... ...l days, I shall believe in you. Now—Now I am dreaming…. Listen!” The first stroke of a clock above the palace offices far away had penetrated to them....

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...ore, but silence like a Lu-cresse 1115 knife: 1116 With bloodlesse stroke my heart doth gore, M.O.A.I. doth 1117 sway my life. 1118 ... ... of Battery against him, if 1951 there be any law in Illyria: though I stroke him first, yet 1952 it’s no matter for that. 1953 Seb. L...

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...y, now vnmuzzle your wisedome. 238 Clo. Stand you both forth now: stroke your chinnes, 239 and sweare by your beards that I am a knaue. ...

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... a great deal of changing and fidgeting, consequent upon the election of a stroke-oar: the inability of one gentle- man to pull on this side, of anoth... ... and a half before the time fixed for the starting of the coach. The first stroke of six, peals from St. Martin’s church steeple, just as you take the... ... scarcely written the last word of the previ- ous sentence, when the first stroke of twelve, peals from the neighbouring churches. There certainly—we ...

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... a great deal of changing and fidgeting, consequent upon the election of a stroke-oar: the inability of one gentle- man to pull on this side, of anoth... ... and a half before the time fixed for the starting of the coach. The first stroke of six, peals from St. Martin’s church steeple, just as you take the... ... scarcely written the last word of the previ- ous sentence, when the first stroke of twelve, peals from the neighbouring churches. There certainly—we ...

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...ore, was subjected to a fine, some time in jail, and was to be struck six strokes with a cane. He had merely spray painted a number of cars that did... ...mniscient and omnipotent American politicians, reduced the caning to four strokes. The young man did not die, but he found it difficult to sit down...

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... hold, and then began to hit with a regular bat-bat-bat, like the flipping strokes of a paddle wheel. A crash and a splash told Mowgli that Bagheera h... ...rly in the chest, and Kaa was thirty feet long, as you 44 know. His first stroke was delivered into the heart of the crowd round Baloo. It was sent h... ... backing water as a wave went over him, and steadying himself with a screw stroke of his flippers that brought him all standing within three inches of... ... as he was talking, to make an end of him. He heard her savage hiss as the stroke missed. He came down almost across her back, and if he had been an o... ...k her back with one bite; but he was afraid of the terrible lashing return stroke of the cobra. He bit, indeed, but did not bite long enough, and he j... ...ut Nag and Nagaina had disappeared into the grass. When a snake misses its stroke, it never says any- thing or gives any sign of what it means to do n... ...nless Rikki bit him close to the back of the head, he would get the return stroke in his eye or his lip. But Rikki did not know. His eyes were all red... ...i-tikki was bounding all round Nagaina, keep- ing just out of reach of her stroke, his little eyes like hot coals. Nagaina gathered herself together a... ... shoulders; and there was one with a broken tusk and the marks of the full-stroke, the terrible drawing scrape, of a tiger’s claws on his side. They w...

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...en the Major; but an alter- ation in her mind that ensued on the paralytic stroke was fraught with as much matter for reflection, and was quite as gha... ...g his dread purpose. The Captain pushed his glazed hat back upon his head, stroked his face down with his heavy hand—making his nose more mottled in t... ...ou know, Mrs Brown,’ said Rob, shaking his head. ‘If you was so much as to stroke its feathers once the wrong way, I believe it would be found out.’ ‘... ...d article that he deemed necessary to their complete- ness. But his master-stroke was, the bearing of them both off, suddenly, one morning, and gettin... ...had called down that upon his head, which bowed it lower than the heaviest stroke of fortune. He knew, now, what it was to be rejected and deserted; n... ...den characters, these names shine refulgent, Gills and Cuttle. Not another stroke of business does the Midshipman achieve beyond his usual easy trade....

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...red many times. But why do I stay to mention these things? When the finishing stroke was put to his work, it suddenly expanded before the eyes of the a...

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...land, as a lottery win is one of the biggest chances in life, and no other stroke of luck is likely to befall an ordinary person. People turn to mediu...

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... twilight, we heard faintly, from far down the stream, what sounded like two strokes of a woodchopper’s axe, echoing dully through the grim solitude. ... ... We are wont to liken many sounds, heard at a distance in the forest, to the stroke of an axe, because they resemble each other under those circumstan... ...he pine, — who does not fondle it with an axe, nor tickle it with a saw, nor stroke it with a plane, — who knows whether its heart is false without cu... ...with the fur on. This house was designed and constructed with the freedom of stroke of a forester’s axe, without other compass and square than Nature ... ...hat I had been accustomed to sit in the stern, and lifting my paddle at each stroke, getting a pry on the side each time, and I still paddled partly a...

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...n folly keeps from being a paradise. I will help you to believe that every stroke of your work is sow- ing happiness for the great harvest that all—ev... ...ld become of me! And to tempt me to stay he offered me (leaning forward to stroke his hair caressingly at each phrase) his strength for MY defence, hi...