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  • Likewise with coffee, though it is a diuretic, does constrict your blood-vessels, which will ease your headache. modernape syko21

    Hangover Cures: Myth, Legend, Fact | Lifehacker Australia 2010

  • Likewise with coffee, though it is a diuretic, does constrict your blood-vessels, which will ease your headache.

    Hangover Cures: Myth, Legend, Fact | Lifehacker Australia 2010

  • Enthusiasm is precisely like wine, it has the power to excite such a ferment in the blood-vessels, and such strong vibrations in the nerves, that reason is completely destroyed by it.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • To anybody who looks at the blood-vessels with an unprejudiced eye it seems so natural that the blood should all come out of the liver, and be distributed by the veins to the different parts of the body, that nothing can seem simpler or more plain; and consequently no one could make up his mind to dispute this apparently obvious assumption.

    Essays 2007

  • Sometimes, in addition to the sphacelus, there come on acute fevers accompanied with hiccup, aberration of intellect, and speedy death, with lividities of the large blood-vessels.

    On The Articulations 2007

  • My blood-vessels began to throb in my ears, and the sound of

    First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

  • Numbers of men stood about the streets in knots and groups, as corpuscles gather and catch in the blood-vessels in the opening stages of inflammation.

    In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

  • Simi, our out-door boy, burst a succession of blood-vessels over our work, and I had to make a position for the wreck of one of the noblest figures of a man I ever saw.

    Vailima Letters 2005

  • There was about his heart — about his actual anatomical heart, with its internal arrangement of valves and blood-vessels — a heavy dragging feeling that almost amounted to corporeal pain, and which he described to himself as agony.

    The Claverings 2005

  • As the blood-vessels, therefore, are the canals and agents that transport the blood, they are of two kinds, the cava and the aorta; and this not by reason of there being two sides of the body, as

    On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals 2005

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