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"All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys," wrote Melville; and it was evident to anyone with nerve-endings that Bush was an unsatisfied boy.
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Your heart is full and you might just save the world ... with your patience, your lessons learned, and that little bit of resilience that you have painstakingly re-affirmed? ... only to crawl into bed, at the end of the day, depleted, defeated, nerve-endings astray?
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Your heart is full and you might just save the world ... with your patience, your lessons learned, and that little bit of resilience that you have painstakingly re-affirmed? ... only to crawl into bed, at the end of the day, depleted, defeated, nerve-endings astray?
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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"All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys," wrote Melville; and it was evident to anyone with nerve-endings that Bush was an unsatisfied boy.
David Bromwich: One More War, Please David Bromwich 2010
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Her skin begins to tingle as her nerve-endings fire and she wonders if this is part of alien sex or simply part of her reaction to him.
Again, from everyone on my f-list, that book meme thingy amberfocus 2008
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Your heart is full and you might just save the world ... with your patience, your lessons learned, and that little bit of resilience that you have painstakingly re-affirmed? ... only to crawl into bed, at the end of the day, depleted, defeated, nerve-endings astray?
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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He sat there, thrilling and jumping, his nerve-endings streaming billions of messages, his brain speeding into a near-superhuman level of activity.
Archive 2007-03-01 Blue Tyson 2007
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The nerve-endings he was trying to reach had been dead for thirty-five years ....
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The craving of an addict works on a more basic level of the nervous system than cognition and obviously cognition will not attack it … as any recovering addict knows literally in his nerve-endings.
When a Pack of Cigarettes Costs $222 - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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And the testicles outside the body, loaded with nerve-endings.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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