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  • All five of these meds were either directly to treat pain, or for helping my nerve's electrical system work better.

    Pain 2008

  • From deep inside, like an age-old recognition of a primeval torment, starting low in my gut and ending like a growl in the throat, the sound I heard in myself, that was at one with myself, that was all there was of existence, that unified every feeling, every nerve's message into one consuming elemental protest, that noise was a deep sort of groan.

    They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010

  • The pituitary responds to the optic nerve's sensation of light -- so tanning with sunglasses is actually less effective than keeping your eyes wide open to the sun.

    Survival of the Sickest 2007

  • The pituitary responds to the optic nerve's sensation of light -- so tanning with sunglasses is actually less effective than keeping your eyes wide open to the sun.

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • From deep inside, like an age-old recognition of a primeval torment, starting low in my gut and ending like a growl in the throat, the sound I heard in myself, that was at one with myself, that was all there was of existence, that unified every feeling, every nerve's message into one consuming elemental protest, that noise was a deep sort of groan.

    To The Hilt Francis, Dick, 1920- 1996

  • During the rising phase positive sodium ions flowed into the nerve from the outside and produced the overshoot of potential by which the impulse exceeded that of the nerve's potassium battery.

    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1963 - Presentation Speech 1972

  • To be weak is to be miserable -- to be strong is to be free from pain -- thus the nerve's returning vigor eliminates its suffering.

    The Opium Habit Horace B. Day

  • With set teeth and nerve's strung to extreme tension, the thoughts of the soldier often wander to his distant home.

    History of Kershaw's Brigade D. Augustus Dickert

  • He's blow'd everything he had, his nerve's gone, an 'he's headin' fer Wolf River fer to gouge yeh out of some _dinero_.

    The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country 1921

  • "I'll carry the dispatch, and I'll drive if you like, if your nerve's gone."

    With Haig on the Somme D. H. Parry 1915

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