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  • "My father done it - did it," Fatty concurred and corrected, as old recollections exploded long-sealed brain-cells of connotation and correct usage.

    THE PRINCESS 2010

  • WesThe fumes from that wd40 been eating a few of your brain-cells buddy, get out for some fresh air!

    The Great Barrel Break-In Fad 2007

  • Though it's rather sad that today's other attempt at internet policing is as worthy in its cause as it is pathetic in its execution. do people really think that sex offenders lack the important brain-cells needed in creating dummy email addresses?

    Piracy is BAD and WRONG and prevents global warming. 2008

  • I'm so smart that whole cities have to be evacuated when I have a thought, because of the movement of my stupendously large brain-cells.

    Pusillanimous Kirsty 2006

  • I'm so smart that whole cities have to be evacuated when I have a thought, because of the movement of my stupendously large brain-cells.

    Archive 2006-02-01 Kirsty 2006

  • A new generation of semi-autonomous robots has been built at Georgia Tech, robots whose control systems are built atop of clusters of rat brain-cells.

    Boing Boing: May 11, 2003 - May 17, 2003 Archives 2003

  • They will undergo certain modifications, to become flesh-cells, blood-cells, brain-cells, and so on, adapting themselves to the different organs they are to build up; but they have as much their definite and appointed share in the formation of the body now as at any later stage of its existence.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various

  • When the practised soul familiarizes itself with the newly-born, fleshly tabernacle it is to inhabit and use for a long or a short time, it broods over the unconscious being, and at the first indication of intelligence, pours into the human brain-cells its own spiritual life, and what thus comes in is there to stay.

    Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul Anna Bishop Scofield

  • Mind, we found, is born in the form of consciousness when the outside world impresses itself upon the brain-cells by way of the senses.

    Applied Psychology for Nurses Mary F. Porter

  • -- I am writing an important historical work, which takes a great deal out of my brain, and I shall be glad to know what is the best kind of diet for nourishing the brain-cells.

    Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891 Various

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