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They were right only to this extent: the old cardioarterial organs occasionally hunted into defective feedback that required systole-diastole adjustments.
Man Made Albert Teichner
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Not swifter pulses that Guillotine, in dread systole-diastole in the Place de la Revolution, than smites the Sword of Patriotism, smiting Cimmeria back to its own borders, from the sacred soil.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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The clanking of its huge axe, rising and falling there, in horrid systole-diastole, is portion of the whole enormous Life-movement and pulsation of the Sansculottic
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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