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During our first two months here, Luke liked to climb up to sit near the bicycle and invent elaborate stories about how it got there: catapults, telekinesis, strange magnetisms.
In This Way I Was Saved Brian DeLeeuw 2009
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"I am compelled to go to other women for the magnetisms I need; she must receive what she requires from other men."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various
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The next day, the magnetisms of turtle-soup and venison will be found agreeable.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various
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A raid among the magnetisms! or, Hifalutin among prunes!
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various
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The magnetisms of some birds are said to be excellent.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various
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It opens the avenues to an influx of spiritual magnetisms.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various
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We can thus superpose several and opposite symmetrical structures, producing a polar north or south as desired, greatly in excess of that possible under a single or even double magnetization, and by carefully adjusting the proportion of opposing magnetisms, so that both polarities have the same external force, the rod will be at perfect external neutrality when free from torsion.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 Various
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Clodman was praising the performance; Susan expressed her delight; Pendlam said something about miscellaneous magnetisms.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various
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"What is the peculiar process of imparting these magnetisms?"
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various
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There are coarse magnetisms, and fine magnetisms; yours is peculiarly agreeable to me.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various
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