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  • Matter fading into Nothingness -- the Eternal Atom being split into countless particles called Corpuscles or Electrons, which at the last seem to be nothing but a unit of Electricity, tied up in a "knot in the

    A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga William Walker Atkinson 1897

  • The soundtrack is the product of a collaboration between Pink Floyd's Roger Waters and British composer and musician Ron Geesin; here are just a few of the songs you will find there: "Red Stuff Writhe," "Dance of The Red Corpuscles," "Embryonic Womb-Walk," and "March Past Of the Embryos."

    "Music From the Body," Roger Waters and Ron Geesin, 1970 JE 2008

  • Corpuscles represent the lowest level of explanation that is possible within a mechanical account of bodies.

    Christian Wolff Hettche, Matt 2006

  • Corpuscles of essentially similar structure are to be found in the skin, in the lining of the mouth, and scattered through the whole framework of the body.

    Autobiography and Selected Essays 2003

  • Corpuscles grind in your own blood-stream, like gravel

    Penological Study: Southern Exposure Warren, Robert Penn 1968

  • Mead_ observes, some waters are so loaded with stony Corpuscles, that even the Pipes thro 'which they are carried, in time are incrusted and stopt up by them, and is of that petrifying nature as to breed the Stone in the Bladder, which many of the _Parisians_ have been instances of, by using this sort of water out of the River

    The London and Country Brewer Anonymous

  • Corpuscles, sometimes called "electrons," "ions," etc., which also are in a state of rapid motion, revolving around each other, and which manifest a very rapid state and mode of vibration.

    The Kybalion A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece Three Initiates

  • Corpuscles are calculated as being one-thousandth of the mass of an atom of hydrogen.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

  • Corpuscles of essentially similar structure are to be found in the skin, in the lining of the mouth, and scattered through the whole framework of the body.

    Autobiography and Selected Essays Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 1909

  • The Dinner was one of those corpseless Funerals, stage-managed by a respectable Lady with a granite Front who had Mayflower Corpuscles moving majestically through her Arterial System.

    Ade's Fables George Ade 1905

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