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  • I am dead here with the hot weather; yet I walk every night home, and believe it does me good: but my shoulder is not yet right; itchings, and scratchings, and small achings.

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • Winds of the day, gestures of distraction, sweat, itchings, sudden surprises, three-foot falls at the edge of sleep, watched skies, remembered shames, all have since written on that perfect grating.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • See that _immediate_ medical attention is given inflammations, excoriations, itchings and swellings of her genital organs.

    Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English Henry Stanton

  • Very disagreeable itchings snatched me from my first nap, and drove me to a wooden bench outside the door.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Various 1909

  • In this magazine of toys -- for such it virtually was at first -- he satisfied his itchings to play with tools and machines.

    The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • I am dead here with the hot weather; yet I walk every night home, and believe it does me good: but my shoulder is not yet right; itchings, and scratchings, and small achings.

    The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901

  • It is described as commencing with itchings and formications in the feet, severe pain in the back, contractions in the muscles, nausea, giddiness, apathy, with abortion in pregnant women, in suckling women drying of milk, and in maidens with amenorrhea.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • It is described as commencing with itchings and formications in the feet, severe pain in the back, contractions in the muscles, nausea, giddiness, apathy, with abortion in pregnant women, in suckling women drying of milk, and in maidens with amenorrhea.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Pécuchet, in like manner, felt himself "undermined," had itchings in his skin and lumps in his throat.

    Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Gustave Flaubert 1850

  • The Archbishop of Tours had willingly given him to his confrere for his journey to that town, because it was usual for archbishops to make each other presents, they well knowing how sharp are the itchings of theological palms.

    Droll Stories — Volume 1 Honor�� de Balzac 1824

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