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Ever since I started the anti-depressants, I've been having night-sweats.
eros-archer Diary Entry eros-archer 2009
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It's only day one Snob-free, and I already have night-sweats and a rash.
This Just In: BSNYC Slaycation Announcement! (and Friday Fun Qiuz) BikeSnobNYC 2009
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It had sent him night-sweats and tears and unfounded dreads.
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His cough was much aggravated, as were the wasting night-sweats; and he could walk only a few steps without assistance.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various
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That consumptive night-sweats may be arrested by sponging the body nightly in salt water.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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This loss may be caused by the expectoration and night-sweats, or it may also be produced by defective mineral nutrition, either from deficient supply in the food, or from non assimilation.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 Various
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It had sent him night-sweats and tears and unfounded dreads.
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The sunlight falling on Stephen's bed and across his sleeping face shows a smile there, and his arm, lying on the coverlet -- an arm thinned by constant fever and night-sweats -- rests, in his thoughts, round her neck; that white neck so sweetly familiar in his dreams.
Six Women Victoria Cross 1910
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Moreover, her inherited notions of conversion included spiritual writhings and physical night-sweats and penitential tears by way of its accomplishment.
The Brentons Anna Chapin Ray 1905
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The patient also suffers from exhausting night-sweats in many instances, though this is not invariable.
Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene 1896
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