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effusion
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effusion as in:  effusions of domestic joy

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    The doctor asked me to cough, took my temperature and blood pressure, applied his stethoscope, and announced that I had pleurisy with effusion, pre-tubercular.†  (source)
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    One Saturday Mrs. E.C.B. stalked into the office with an effusion Mr. Underwood said he refused to disgrace the Tribune with: it was a cow obituary in verse, beginning: 0 kine no longer mine With those big brown eyes of thine.... and containing grave breaches of Christian philosophy.†  (source)
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    Katie Boulter gave her a perfume bottle to keep slate water in, and Julia Bell copied carefully on a piece of pale pink paper scalloped on the edges the following effusion:†  (source)
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    Her daughters listened in silence to this effusion, sensible that any attempt to reason with her or soothe her would only increase the irritation.†  (source)
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    Peter's face lit up, and he went into great effusions about her father's contributions to marine zoology, as I had myself once done upon meeting Goff.†  (source)
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    We have watch'd the seasons dispensing themselves and passing on, And have said, Why should not a man or woman do as much as the seasons, and effuse as much?†  (source)
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    Instead, their light effused the sky with an eerie, gray-white glow.†  (source)
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    The scene and all its belongings, how they seize and affect me, The sad sharp-chinn'd old man with worn clothes and broad shoulder-band of leather, Myself effusing and fluid, a phantom curiously floating, now here absorb'd and arrested, The group, (an unminded point set in a vast surrounding,) The attentive, quiet children, the loud, proud, restive base of the streets, The low hoarse purr of the whirling stone, the light-press'd blade, Diffusing, dropping, sideways-darting, in tiny showers of gold, Sparkles from the wheel.†  (source)
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    "Amazing, huh Cedric?" effuses Kelly.†  (source)
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    I was not free to resume the interrupted chain of my reflections till bedtime: even then a teacher who occupied the same room with me kept me from the subject to which I longed to recur, by a prolonged effusion of small talk.†  (source)
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    Like the rest of her ilk, Mrs. Moodie is prone to overwrought effusions, and to the concoction of convenient fairy tales; and for the purposes of truth, one might as well rely on the "eye-witness reports" of a goose.†  (source)
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    The great laws take and effuse without argument, I am of the same style, for I am their friend, I love them quits and quits, I do not halt and make salaams.†  (source)
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    and, deadly pale, Groaned out his soul with gushing blood effused.†  (source)
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