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Please forgive my psychic slip-up, you know how it goes; the moon's waning, my chi's not aligned, the cynics on CiF are disrupting my aura and nobody's crossed my palm with even one crisp £50 note.
Superstition: my comfort in credulity | Morven Crumlish 2010
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We know these principles as "don't meet force with force" and "go with the flow," but a principle that is lesser known, despite tai chi's much vaunted balance benefits, is the notion of keeping one's wuji, or personal equilibrium.
Arthur Rosenfeld: The Link Between Individuality And Health 2009
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Gorgio as wur to break the Romany chi's heart -- if that Romany chi's heart hadn't been Sinfi Lovell's.
Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873
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"Well, I can conceive that there would be an objection on the part of the cokos and batus that a Romany chi should form an improper acquaintance with a gorgio, but I should think that the batus and cokos could hardly object to the chi's entering into the honourable estate of wedlock with a gorgio."
The Romany Rye George Henry Borrow 1842
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Romany chi's passion for fine words, her sentences are rarely complex like some of the sentences Borrow puts into her mouth.
Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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"Well, I can conceive that there would be an objection on the part of the cokos and batus that a Romany chi should form an improper acquaintance with a gorgio, but I should think that the batus and cokos could hardly object to the chi's entering into the honourable estate of wedlock with a gorgio."
The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" George Henry Borrow 1842
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'Well, I can conceive that there would be an objection on the part of the cokos and batus that a Romany chi should form an improper acquaintance with a gorgio, but I should think that the batus and cokos could hardly object to the chi's entering into the honourable estate of wedlock with a gorgio.'
The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' George Henry Borrow 1842
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"Well, I can conceive that there would be an objection on the part of the cokos and batus that a Romany chi should form an improper acquaintance with a gorgio, but I should think that the batus and cokos could hardly object to the chi's entering into the honourable estate of wedlock with a gorgio."
Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 George Henry Borrow 1842
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Tai chi's movements cause every lymph node and internal organ to be massaged, and all the body's internal pumps to be energized.
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Tai chi's movements cause every lymph node and internal organ to be massaged, and all the body's internal pumps to be energized.
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