Word: kills
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...heart consisted of a "right and left heart" joined into one, by a kind of muscular wall. This wall was sometimes lacking from birth, and owing to the imperfect circulation, people thus afficted turned a bright blue; this disease, cyanosis, is very apt to kill the sufferer in a few years. Having located the heart the lecturer proceeded to show how the blood going from the right auricle was passed into the ventricle and then sent travelling over the body. But ignorance of medical terms prevents our describing it at length...
...early Dutch Governors of the New Netherlands also used to appoint an occasional Thanksgiving day. Then the portly old citizens would kill their fat fowl and, with eating, drinking and smoking, cultivate within their ample bosoms, in their artless Dutch way, a love for all human kind...
...very disagreeable task to disapprove in such a public manner the methods of a personally pleasant man; but something must be done to remedy this manifest injustice. There are some men who have been called upon but once this year, a circumstance well calculated to kill all proficiency in the subject. It is wholly essential that as many men as possible should be given an opportunity to pronounce the difficult words for which German is noted. As it is, many men are literally afraid of their own voices, into such long disuse have they come...
...next moment my body entered through the open door. It advanced toward the children, meaning as I saw to kill them. And it did kill them while I stood by in a gony. I shall not attempt to describe the murder, for the details of it are confused with recollections of what I had just been reading in De Quincey. What I remember most is my own face glancing at me, as the murder went on, with looks of mockery and hate. Then the room suddenly filled with people. I recollect the chill of fear I felt as the instinct...
Harvard indifference may have killed many societies, but it will not kill the Co-operative Society. We are glad that the students took such interest in its welfare, as to attend in such large numbers the meeting last evening ; we are doubly glad that the sentiments expressed there were so unanimously in favor of the continuance of this, the most needed of Harvard societies. Within two weeks, $200 must be raised, and there is not the slightest doubt that double or triple that amount could be raised, if necessary. But let not the students, therefore, be relax, and fail...