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  • To its lip he holds the purest ichors of existence; with ennobling draughts of awe, pity, sympathy, and joy, he quickens its blood and strengthens its vital assimilations.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Various

  • But time and earth case-harden us to live; the feeblest sense is trusted most: the child feels God a moment, ichors o'er the place, plays on and grows to be a man like us.

    An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Hiram Corson 1869

  • It also emits steam heat, opening the pores and allowing subcutaneous ichors to bubble to the surface.

    Geek.com 2009

  • so i stomach my hate. i turn it into a black pearl, tuck it away amongst the ichors & tissues of my body. i'm full of strands of them, beads of secretion afixed end to end. i fully intend to wield them as a garrote. for now i carry them about like bullets imbeded in my flesh. like pips on a playing card.

    mordicai: crown me king! mordicai 2004

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