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  • I don't know what happened, I wasn't particularly nervous before jumping, and the feeling I had when hanging there wasn't what I could recognize as fear or anxity.

    Skydiving! magnio 2005

  • The vast majority of people suffering from any sort of depressive or anxity related illness DO

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • It was bad and i was always emotionally upset. now comes guru and so i am having anxity ..... how will it be. please someone predict carefully. am feeling depressed.

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010

  • Lisa D.: Dear Therese, Please add me to your self-esteem file, I find the posts you write to be universally helpful ... diki: I want to see therapist in calcutta india, I think i am suffering from GAD anxity for a long time. i need contack ...

    World of Psychology 2009

  • Island untill Gibson arrived and assist him with his crew in geting his canoe up the rapid, when they were to join us on the oposite side at a small village of six houses of the Clah-clah'lahs where we halted for breakfast. in passing the river which is here about 400 yds. wide the rapidity of the currant was such that it boar us down a considerable distance notwithstanding we employed five oars. on entering one of these lodges, the natives offered us a sheepskin for sail, than which nothing could have been more acceptable except the animal itself. the skin of the head of the sheep with the horns remaining was cased in such manner as to fit the head of a man by whom it was woarn and highly prized as an ornament. we obtained this cap in exchange for a knife, and were compelled to give two Elkskins in exchange for the skin. this appeared to be the skin of a sheep not fully grown; the horns were about four inches long, celindric, smooth, black, erect and pointed; they rise from the middle of the forehead a little above the eyes. they offered us a second skin of a full grown sheep which was quite as large as that of a common deer. they discovered our anxity to purchase and in order to extort a great plrice declared that they prized it too much to dispose of it. in expectation of finding some others of a similar kind for sale among the natives of this neighbourhood I would not offer him

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

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