Word: brainful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...myself down on the sofa again, and tried to think. I might as well have tried to fly. My brain was spinning about like a wheel, and I could distinguish nothing clearly. There was the dream, the vision, the actuality, whatever it was, of the night before; here was the fact of to-day, the bright sunlight, the undisturbed room, and - myself. Where was Stephen? That was the question that kept repeating itself over and over, the question for which I could find no answer. Only in my own consciousness remained any trace of the night before...
...brain was sore with soaring...
...more, I realized that it was not upon the Styx's bank that my boat was beating, but against the little pier in front of the Bay View House. So I got ashore as best I could, and, feeling as if an entire planetary system was whirling within my brain, I stumbled up to the hotel, and, in a sort of daze, got to my room and fell asleep at once...
...College papers please copy, with the addition, "This low, dastardly, ill-bred attack is only a mark of the idiotic brain which invented it. Such vile, underhanded reptilian onslaughts can only have proceeded from a narrow, bigoted, Pharisaical fool." That, we think, is the usual style...
...next subject was a Senior who had been clubbed to death, while peaceably returning from a literary dinner, by a policeman. The surgeons at once began to examine his brain. After sawing into the skull for more than half an hour, they were unable to reach the cerebrum. So thick was the cranium that the operators began to despair of finding any brain at all, and were about to relinquish their attempts, when a young medical student suggested that a charge of dynamite would perhaps do the work. By this means the cocoa-nut was successfully cracked, and a small...