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  • Our Bodies, Ourselves is a comforting book — even a soporific one.

    Latex Conquers All 2005

  • Our Bodies, Ourselves is a comforting book — even a soporific one.

    Latex Conquers All 2005

  • The central bureau of nerves, what in some moods we call Ourselves, enjoyed its holiday without disturbance, like a Government Office.

    An Inland Voyage 1878

  • The central bureau of nerves, what in some moods we call Ourselves, enjoyed its holiday without disturbance, like a Government office.

    The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • The central bureau of nerves, what in some moods we call Ourselves, enjoyed its holiday without disturbance, like a Government Office.

    An Inland Voyage Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • The time approaches when we will have no other option but to rid 'Ourselves' of these suicidal psychotic Islamic murderers who want to kill innocent people to enforce Islam upon us through fear?

    'Hell' Speaks Lionheart 2007

  • "Ourselves," he said, and the course of it was all but finished except for the waving of the tubes that attached themselves — so, so sinister those thin lines, and the line that appeared leading in another section, and the arrival of another bit of debris far across the wheel ... something our last jump had swept in, I reckoned.

    Port Eternity Cherryh, C. J. 1982

  • Sinn Fein means, as we have already seen, literally "Ourselves," and is the title and expression of a movement which denies the lawful existence of the Incorporating Union in contradistinction to Unionism (which see) and Parliamentarianism (which see).

    Six days of the Irish Republic A Narrative and Critical Account of the Latest Phase of Irish Politics

  • "Ourselves" implies that not merely did they hear others speaking of the Thessalonians 'faith, but they, the missionaries themselves, boasted of it.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • I do however have a 1979 copy of Our Bodies Ourselves, which isn’t relevant to today my understanding is that both abortion and birth control have got considerably safer in the last 25 years, but is relevant to the question of whether ‘rare’ should be our goal.

    Do Pro-Lifers Know Anything About Abortion? 2006

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