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My, myo: when used as part of a word, refers to muscle.
YOU The Smart Patient Michael F. Roizen 2006
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My, myo: when used as part of a word, refers to muscle.
YOU The Smart Patient Michael F. Roizen 2006
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We will return now to the frog and to the myo-thermic experiments made upon it.
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Before she left, Valerie gave me a book, and the beads you use, and she taught me the chant: nam-myo-ho-renge-kyo.
I Tina Turner, Tina 1952
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Yo [u] myo [u] Genzo [u], later known as Inosuké, was born at
The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)
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"Scripture of the Lotus of Good Law," and he taught that salvation could be attained merely by chaunting the formula, "namu myo ho renge kyo" ( "hail to the Scripture of the Lotus of Good Law") with sufficient fervour and iteration.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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The word "myo-tzkushi" (= beacon) more properly means "water-marker" though disused in the modern Japanese.
Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan Various 1880
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Namu-myo-ho-ren-ge-kyo, or Namu Amida Butsu, or some other holy words of prayer or of praise to the Buddha, ere commencing his prayer to the ancestors.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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And even one quite ignorant of Japanese ideographs can nearly always distinguish at a glance the formula of the great Nichiren sect from the peculiar appearance of the column of characters composing it, all bristling with long sharp points and banneret zigzags, like an army; the famous text Namu-myo-ho-ren-gekyo inscribed of old upon the flag of the great captain Kato Kiyomasa, the extirpator of Spanish Christianity, the glorious vir ter execrandus of the Jesuits.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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He also carries a little brazen gong, which he constantly sounds while passing through a city or village, at the same time chanting the Namu-myo-ho-ren-ge-kyo; and he always bears with him a little blank book, in which the priest of every temple visited stamps the temple seal in red ink.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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