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"Inanition of soul as well as body," thought the Doctor.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Various
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Inanition fever -- the fever that sometimes follows a failure to give water to the new born infant -- is thus avoided.
The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler
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Inanition, illustrating primacy of nervous system, 124 _note_
Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900
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The cause of death was Heart Disease in 1 case; General Paresis in 1; Exhaustion from Chronic Mania in 3: Acute Mania in 1; Phthisis in 3; Chronic Dysentery in 1; and Inanition in 1 case.
Annual Report of the Board of Directors and the Superintendent of the North Carolina Insane Asylum, for the Year Ending November 30, 1884. Insane Asylum of North Carolina 1851
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Revolution this, and no other, That when Shams and Delusions, long soul-killing, had become body-killing, and got the length of Bankruptcy and Inanition, a great People rose and, with one voice, said, in the
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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During this Interval of Inanition, the Mind recover'd its former Situation, and freed itself from all its Anxieties.
The Amours of Zeokinizul, King of the Kofirans Translated from the Arabic of the famous Traveller Krinelbol Claude Prosper Jolyot de Cr��billon 1742
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Inanition: exhaustion caused by lack of nourishment.
planet.journals.ie 2009
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