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Word: power (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...said, in conscious power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 6/13/1873 | See Source »

Passion and strife have lost their power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DUSK. | 6/2/1873 | See Source »

...mind precedes the full resumption of the sceptre over its allotted portion of matter that begins another day of life. Then the visions of the night assume consistency and beauty, and our fancies of the daytime reappear endowed with substance. All our dreams are permeated with a consciousness of power to control them, yet no enjoyment could seem more real or be more unalloyed. The frosty air of winter stealing in about our ears and among the tangles of our hair makes us the more sensible of the comfort of warmth and repose. The cool, fresh, fragrant breaths...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLEASURES OF SLEEP. | 6/2/1873 | See Source »

Every mind and every body has its maximum of energy; up to this point one can go with impunity, but to attempt further advance is to fail. As the machine lasts in proportion to the use or abuse of it, and as its power depends partly upon the care taken of it, so the mind and body, if subjected to continual strain, so much the sooner break down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FESTINA LENTE. | 5/16/1873 | See Source »

...SOUL. - Sweet saw, thy dulcet song has power to soothe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/16/1873 | See Source »

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