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Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.
The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 2006
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In my opinion these myriads of globes are merely the blood-corpuscles ebbing & flowing through the arteries of God, & we but animaculae that infest them, disease them, pollute them: & God does not know we are there, & would not care if he did.39
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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In my opinion these myriads of globes are merely the blood-corpuscles ebbing & flowing through the arteries of God, & we but animaculae that infest them, disease them, pollute them: & God does not know we are there, & would not care if he did.39
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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The suns & planets that form the constellations of a billion billion solar systems & go pouring, a tossing flood of shining globes, through the viewless arteries of space are the blood-corpuscles in the veins of God; & the nations are the microbes that swarm and wiggle & brag in each, & think God can tell them apart at that distance & has nothing better to do than try.
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After the bacteria are thus killed, the white blood-corpuscles may load themselves with their dead bodies and carry them away (Fig. 33 d, e).
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Here it attacks the red blood-corpuscles, each malarial organism making its way into a single one (Fig. 340).
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The paroxysms of the disease, characterized by the chill, occur at the time that the spores are escaping from the blood-corpuscles and floating in the blood.
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A. _Bacilli_ mingled with blood-corpuscles from the blood of a guinea-pig; some of the _bacilli_ dividing.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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This second method of resistance is by means of a series of active cells found in the blood, known as white blood-corpuscles (Fig. 33 a, b).
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After a time they make their way into other red blood-corpuscles, develop into new malarial amoeboid parasites, and repeat the growth and sporulation.
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