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The speed of apperception has been subjected to measurement by Auerbach, Kries, Baxt, von Tigerstedt and Bergqvist, Stern, Vaschide, Vurpass, etc.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911
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They might have been put on inquiry by the long interval between the date of the death as it was given and the receipt of the news; in their excitement they paid no heed to it, and it did not occur either to Madame de Kries or to myself to raise the question.
Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House Anthony Hope 1898
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I understood their feelings even more fully (in any case the situation was distressing) when I learnt from Madame de Kries that in certain events (which happened later) the lady and her child after her would become persons of rank and importance.
Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House Anthony Hope 1898
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What else they did to mend or try to mend it, Madame de Kries professed not to know.
Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House Anthony Hope 1898
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Madame de Kries a few months later, I heard the sequel of the story, told to me in the strictest confidence, and in violation, I fear, of the old lady's pledge of secrecy.
Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House Anthony Hope 1898
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I learnt however from Madame de Kries that the wedding was hurried on and took place on the day following my departure; after this the pair went to Baden, and there, a fortnight later, the child -- a boy -- was born.
Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House Anthony Hope 1898
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I was sitting in Madame de Kries 'parlor with her and her daughter -- an odd dark little thing, five or six years old.
Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House Anthony Hope 1898
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Then she sank down on the sofa, Madame de Kries kneeling by her, while the Imp (as I called the child, whom I disliked) stared at her open-eyed, wondering no doubt what the fuss was about.
Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House Anthony Hope 1898
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It coincides interestingly with that of von Kries, [21] who reports as to the phases of fading after-images, that between the disappearance of the primary image and the appearance of the 'ghost,' a moment of the most intense blackness intervenes.
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As to judgments on the color and color-phases of after-images, there is ample precedent in the researches of von Helmholtz, Hering, Hess, von Kries, Hamaker, and Munk.
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