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"I'll take the liberty of saying to Monsieur le Baron that I phlebotomized Perdreau last week and Mascareau only a month ago, without any complaint from them."
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Thomas Cowell of York County in 1680, and Patrick Napier twice phlebotomized 'Allen Jarves, deceased, in the cure of a cancer of his mouth.'
Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 Thomas Proctor Hughes
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Then to-morrow morning, six -- phlebotomists themselves phlebotomized secundum artem.
Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912
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And by the way, let me beg you not to call a TROTTING MATCH a RACE, and not to speak of a "thoroughbred" as a "BLOODED" horse, unless he has been recently phlebotomized.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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And by the way, let me beg you not to call a TROTTING MATCH a RACE, and not to speak of a "thoroughbred" as a "BLOODED" horse, unless he has been recently phlebotomized.
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Half dead upon the spot where he was phlebotomized, the wretched animal was left to reflect under the shade of a tulip-tree on the cruelty of man, on their barbarous appetites; cursing with all his heart the poverty of Morvinian curates, their conceited hospitality, of which he was the victim, and their brutal affection for pig's blood.
Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches Henri de Crignelle 1840
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"I'll take the liberty of saying to Monsieur le Baron that I phlebotomized Perdreau last week and Mascareau only a month ago, without any complaint from them."
Gerfaut — Complete Charles de Bernard 1827
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Originally, the launch of the phlebotomized Phaeton was planned for an autumn release, but a look at the sales charts made Wolfsburg rush the car to China.
The Truth About Cars Bertel Schmitt 2010
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(a red gad-fly) were troublesome as usual, and at night the mosquitoes phlebotomized us till we hailed the dawn. 18 A delightful bath of salt followed by fresh water, effectually quenched the fiery irritation of these immundicities.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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The evening was still and close; the Ifúrú (sandflies) and the Nchúná (a red gad-fly) were troublesome as usual, and at night the mosquitoes phlebotomized us till we hailed the dawn. [
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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