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PZ didn't imply that he was having any specific kind of seisure (other than one caused by irony), so there's no reason for anyone in particular, whether you suffer from seisures or not, to take offense from someone jokingly stating they had seisure caused by something not related to any real disorder.
Pharyngula 2009
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While I don't totally agree with the Arizona law becuase of your right to serach and seisure should not be taken from you.
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While I don't totally agree with the Arizona law becuase of your right to serach and seisure should not be taken from you.
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I've seen Beth come back from a seisure and talk to us in a language that makes perfect sense to her, but sounds like gobly gook to those around her.
Am I a liar? Elizabeth McClung 2008
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In the Court of Vice and concerning the seisure and taking
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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We are confident not one chest in five hundred has been seized in this Province for two or three years past, and the custom house officers seem unwilling to run any risk to make a seisure.
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Mrs. Jennings had determined very early in the seisure that Marianne would never get over it, and Colonel Brandon, who was chiefly of use in listening to Mrs. Jennings's forebodings, was not in a state of mind to resist their influence.
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Henry, by this seisure, had more property to give away, than any King of
An History of Birmingham (1783) William Hutton 1769
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They quickly learn that fever does not work and learn to mention "breathing funny" "shaking like a seisure", "lips a funny color" to ensure service by the big red-light taxi.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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They quickly learn that fever does not work and learn to mention "breathing funny" "shaking like a seisure", "lips a funny color" to ensure service by the big red-light taxi.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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