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  • After all, in the midst of armed conflicts, facts are bound to be just as susceptible to injury as ships and men, if not more so.†   (source)
  • During the log-out sequence, your avatar froze in place for sixty seconds, during which time you were totally defenseless and susceptible to attack.†   (source)
  • "Part of me wishes Kaltain hadn't been so susceptible," grumbled Perrington.†   (source)
  • If neither God nor Owen Meany could restore the Rev. Mr. Merrill's faith, I thought I knew a "miracle" that my father was susceptible to believing in.†   (source)
  • It would not be the first time; he is known to be susceptible.†   (source)
  • And that is how someone who is unusually susceptible to nightmares, night terrors, the Creeps, the Willies, and Seeing Things That Aren't Really There talks himself into making one last trip to the abandoned, almost-certainly-haunted house where a dozen or more children met their untimely end.†   (source)
  • Within days they found that HeLa was, in fact, more susceptible to the virus than any cultured cells had ever been.†   (source)
  • Its crew of four were ill at ease knowing that they had been brought together not of their own volition or by simple coincidence, but by some curious perversion of physics—as if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules.†   (source)
  • Maybe if he hadn't pierced me with his intense glare in the store, I would be more susceptible to his physical perfection.†   (source)
  • On Everest in 1995 he'd frostbitten his feet badly enough to lose some tissue from a big toe and permanently impair his circulation, making him particularly susceptible to cold; now this additional frostbite would make him yet more vulnerable to the cruel conditions of the upper mountain.†   (source)
  • It would lower her morale, making her more susceptible to his mind games.†   (source)
  • "I thought a, shall we say, less imaginative individual would be less susceptible to the rigors, the loneliness — " "That was your mistake," Jack said.†   (source)
  • "And while there was still that possibility that I might be… overcome" — he breathed in the scent at my wrist — "I was… susceptible.†   (source)
  • Apparently the many moving parts of Operation Redwing, so susceptible to change, were still in place.†   (source)
  • And Olmsted himself had grown increasingly susceptible to illness.†   (source)
  • But something about the shark had unsettled her, had left her susceptible to bad decisions.†   (source)
  • Nazism was a disease to which the Dutch, too, were susceptible, and those with an anti-Semitic bias fell sick of it first.†   (source)
  • So he's susceptible to that form of information.†   (source)
  • Kenny eventually recovered from the overexposure to chlorine, but it left his chest feeling raw, made him susceptible to colds and sensitive to chemical aromas.†   (source)
  • Older people in particular were susceptible to news of impending calamity as it was forecast on TV by grave men standing before digital radar maps or pulsing photographs of the planet.†   (source)
  • And yet man, being of the flesh, was susceptible to the sins of hubris, hatred, impatience, and greed.†   (source)
  • I don't know if it's true that there's a fine line between genius and madness, or that musicians and other artists are more susceptible to breakdowns.†   (source)
  • You had never heard of the Divergent a week ago, and now all that you know is that they are immune to something to which you are susceptible, and that is a frightening thing.†   (source)
  • I know you are susceptible to …. pleas.†   (source)
  • And faeries are very susceptible to charm.†   (source)
  • Storehouses are susceptible to destruction.†   (source)
  • You're more susceptible."†   (source)
  • He read a quotation from who: "mdr-tb is too expensive to treat in poor countries; it detracts attention and resources from treating drug-susceptible disease."†   (source)
  • It all made sense, and instead of feeling a brief moment of relief, I realized how susceptible I was.†   (source)
  • Also greed and jealousy and every other obsessive urge the sentient races are susceptible to.†   (source)
  • And that makes me more vulnerable, and more scrutinized, and more susceptible to gossip.†   (source)
  • More perhaps than any other refugee group in Clarkston, Liberian boys and young men were susceptible to the lure of the American gangs that flourished in the public schools and in the parking lots of the apartment complexes around town.†   (source)
  • There are carriers, people who are very expressive, and there are people who are especially susceptible.†   (source)
  • I don't think she's a safe topic for susceptible young chaps like you and me," the grizzled old Scotchman concluded with a chuckle.†   (source)
  • But if he did tell the rival gang about this stairwell hangout, they'd be susceptible to a surprise attack.†   (source)
  • …definite and pressing, which was the instinct to kill cockroaches, and if the latter had succeeded in escaping human ferocity it was because they had taken refuge in the shadows, where they became invulnerable because of man's congenital fear of the dark, but on the other hand they became susceptible to the glow of noon, so that by the Middle Ages already, and in present times, andper omnia secula seculorum , the only effective method for killing cockroaches was the glare of the sun.†   (source)
  • Susceptible.†   (source)
  • Men were especially susceptible.†   (source)
  • Maybe most of the people susceptible to that stress were already weeded out during BUD/S, and maybe the high levels of stress in our training prepare us for the high levels of stress in war.†   (source)
  • But apparently they're the most susceptible."†   (source)
  • It looked vulnerable, soft, like an easily wounded shin, full of bone but susceptible to the slightest pain.†   (source)
  • The Photograph seemed to illuminate the air around it; it released pulses of hope and pride and often tears in people who glimpsed it—even hardheaded people who would not think of themselves as susceptible to "inspirational" imagery.†   (source)
  • Girls—so susceptible to weakness from poor food and neglect—never outgrow their vulnerability.†   (source)
  • We decided to do it late at night in the hospital, when she was already tired and might be more susceptible.†   (source)
  • I don't want her overtired and susceptible to this terrible illness.†   (source)
  • And took great pleasure in causing him pain, knowing that though I blocked his telepathy with a Tego charm, he would be able to send you images of his experiences when your mind was most susceptible.†   (source)
  • Is everyone susceptible?†   (source)
  • Exterior beauty might catch someone's eye right away—he knew he was just as susceptible as the next guy to a supermodel's appeal—but he'd always found intelligence and passion to be far more attractive and influential over time.†   (source)
  • You know yourself the tests are susceptible to manipulation.†   (source)
  • It was foolish to be susceptible to his hands over hers, the press of his body, the smell of him.†   (source)
  • In the presence of women—those he wished to impress above all—he was too susceptible to the least sign of approval.†   (source)
  • It was as though that susceptible part of her nature were in suspense, with its eye on the clock and mindful that she had owing yet some few, fleeting hours with Tom.†   (source)
  • Shorts out their aggression and makes them susceptible to your command.†   (source)
  • And that children are susceptible?" the First Lady scolds Shaw.†   (source)
  • I've got to make myself susceptible to the Beauty Disease.†   (source)
  • Anyone who thinks that the President and two-thirds of the Senate will ever be capable of such unworthy conduct, must either have been very unfortunate in his interactions with the world or has a heart very susceptible to such impressions.†   (source)
  • EVENTUALLY ANY ILLNESS YOU'RE SUSCEPTIBLE TO CAN LEAD TO YOUR DEATH.†   (source)
  • More susceptible to sunstroke now.†   (source)
  • Ahistorical, pre-sexual, in suspension between the archaic and the modern, we were as susceptible and impressionable as the drinking water that stood in a bucket in our scullery: every time a passing train made the earth shake, the surface of that water used to ripple delicately, concentrically, and in utter silence.†   (source)
  • Hoss is just another susceptible bureaucrat with a blocked-up itch for a female body.†   (source)
  • Though all my life susceptible to anyone on a stage, I never would have been able to hold up my hand in front of the crowd at the City Auditorium and "comeforward" while the choir leaned out singing "Come home!†   (source)
  • Barbara D'Courtney's hysterical recall of the death of her father was susceptible of two interpretations.†   (source)
  • But all women become conscious, sooner or later, of that impalpable, but steel-strong pressure to get married, and Mary, who was not at all susceptible to atmosphere, or the things people imply, was brought face to face with it suddenly, and most unpleasantly.†   (source)
  • He was susceptible to those invisible flowers of hers: they were after all a tribute to his talents.†   (source)
  • Also, if the Taliban found out we'd gone, we would be highly susceptible to ambush.†   (source)
  • Put those into a teenage boy, and that says susceptible to me.†   (source)
  • We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas.†   (source)
  • That pattern is susceptible to analysis and prediction.†   (source)
  • Jack Torrance had been extremely susceptible to the flu in the last year.†   (source)
  • A young prisoner could contract susceptible tb and, through inadequate treatment, end up with mdr.†   (source)
  • When would he be most susceptible to such whispering, Thufir?†   (source)
  • It's susceptible to various interpretations.†   (source)
  • I fear I have grown susceptible to such suggestions, and I wonder at the woman I have become.†   (source)
  • And make us susceptible to joy, sorrow, and passion.†   (source)
  • I don't like how he throws that last sentence in there, like I'm susceptible to his manipulation.†   (source)
  • They try kindness, to lure me back, but I am no longer susceptible to it.†   (source)
  • Some people are more susceptible than others.†   (source)
  • No one is more susceptible to an expert's fearmongering than a parent.†   (source)
  • Someone like you would be easily susceptible to her manipulation.†   (source)
  • I even went to the movies, by myself; I was no longer susceptible to groping men, who had lost their aura of demonic magic, now that I knew what they had in mind.†   (source)
  • This discovery meant that if HeLa was susceptible to poliovirus, which not all cells were, it would solve the mass-production problem and make it possible to test the vaccine without millions of monkey cells.†   (source)
  • The older boys, the ones susceptible to the factory draft, we sent out only after dark now, and then most often dressed as girls.†   (source)
  • Thus Ned was particularly susceptible to an offer from Holmes that seemed likely to increase his own stature in Julia's eyes.†   (source)
  • If such a slight change in temperature was all it took to transform the life of a public square, why should we think the course of human history any less susceptible?†   (source)
  • Owen was susceptible to colds; and now he was overtired all the time—rehearsing the Holy Nativity in the mornings, performing as the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come at night.†   (source)
  • Monocultures, like a field of corn, are susceptible to infections, but genetically diverse cultures, like a prairie, are extremely robust.†   (source)
  • "Himself not especially susceptible to flattery except in a sentimental way, he soon learned its efficacy when plastered thick on big business men," Sullivan wrote.†   (source)
  • They did that because, despite being cancerous, HeLa still shared many basic characteristics with normal cells: They produced proteins and communicated with one another like normal cells, they divided and generated energy, they expressed genes and regulated them, and they were susceptible to infections, which made them an optimal tool for synthesizing and studying any number of things in culture, including bacteria, hormones, proteins, and especially viruses.†   (source)
  • But the Xenorian supply lines had been cut by rocket fire from hidden Earth installations, thus depriving the Lizard Men of the vital ingredients for their zorch-ray death guns, and Earth had rallied and struck back — not only with her own fighting forces, but with clouds of gas made from the poison of the rare Iridis hortz frog once used by the Nacrods of Ulinth to tip their arrows, and to which, it had been discovered by Earth scientists, the Xenorians were particularly susceptible.†   (source)
  • What would happen, he asked the audience, if programs treated drug-susceptible tb successfully and let mdr flourish?†   (source)
  • Owen looked extremely susceptible to tickling, which he was, and Hester's gesture was of the friendliest of intentions—especially for Hester—but the combination of putting his hand on live hair, in the dark, coupled with being tickled by a girl who, Owen thought, was merely tickling him en route to grabbing his doink, was too much for him; he wet his pants.†   (source)
  • And the underfinanced prison medical service didn't have the equipment or drugs to achieve a respectable cure rate even among the inmates with drug-susceptible tb.†   (source)
  • When the NFIP heard the news that HeLa was susceptible to polio virus and could grow in large quantities for little money, it immediately contracted William Scherer to oversee development of a HeLa Distribution Center at the Tuskegee Institute, one of the most prestigious black universities in the country.†   (source)
  • I think it definitely brings the mother tongue closer to the surface, makes people more apt to speak in tongues and more susceptible to me.†   (source)
  • In a patient who gets only one antibiotic or inadequate doses of several, or who takes the medicines erratically or for too short a time, the drug-susceptible bacilli may die off while the drug-resistant mutants flourish.†   (source)
  • But being physically infected with a virulent strain of the Asherah virus makes you a whole lot more susceptible.†   (source)
  • DARK THINGS: idiomatic for the infectious superstitions taught by the Missionaria Protectiva to susceptible civilizations.†   (source)
  • As such, in Lagos's view, it was much less susceptible to viral infection because it was based on fixed, written records.†   (source)
  • This was the site of the pilot project of pilot projects in the effort to stanch the Russian tb epidemic, the project that would show the way to controlling, in the prisons and the towns and cities, both drug-susceptible tb and mdr.†   (source)
  • They should have been standing by the third gate to the air base, the unmarked gate, because that's where scientists from the Pocket entered and left, and they were the most susceptible presence, and he half wanted to tell the protesters to move their operation up the road.†   (source)
  • They suggest that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the way we think and act—and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment—are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize.†   (source)
  • After all, as Eragon reflected, if there was one thing dragons were susceptible to, it was flattery, as Saphira was well aware.†   (source)
  • But when it came to such a consuming atmosphere, such a press of surrounding stone, his sanity was as susceptible as any.†   (source)
  • Dogs, more susceptible than their human masters, cannot even hope for complete protection from the inactivatedvirus vaccine which every veterinarian administers.†   (source)
  • "And so it goes," Kurt Vonnegut wrote once upon a time, when I was at Johns Hopkins and susceptible to such easy, breezy sentiments.†   (source)
  • This is; clearly the most difficult path of all: the most independent, precocious, rebellious teens are hardly likely to be the most susceptible to rational health advice.†   (source)
  • It seemed absurd that any of our brethren could prove susceptible to Galbatorix's poisonous whisperings.†   (source)
  • My grandparents recognized in my father the weakness of having been raised as the only son in a house with too many sisters and too many concubines, while my aunt suspected that he was cowardly and susceptible to vice.†   (source)
  • Besides, had not Shakespeare observed that "a heart agitated with the remains of a former passion is most susceptible to a new one"?†   (source)
  • She assumed that Galbatorix was distorting the woman's words or appearance, or perhaps that he was tampering with her own emotions to make her more susceptible to Rialla's arguments.†   (source)
  • Once we're part of a group, we're all susceptible to peer pressure and social norms and any number of other kinds of influence that can play a critical role in sweeping us up in the beginnings of an epidemic.†   (source)
  • The first is that the same kinds of things that would make someone susceptible to the contagious effects of smoking — low self-esteem, say, or an unhealthy and unhappy home life — are also the kinds of things that contribute to depression.†   (source)
  • "Adams has a heart formed for friendship, and susceptible to its finest feelings," Sewall continued in his account of the reunion.†   (source)
  • Phillips concluded that one of the ways in which people commit suicide is by deliberately crashing their cars, and that these people were just as susceptible to the contagious effects of a highly publicized suicide as were people killing themselves by more conventional means.†   (source)
  • Most susceptible to the disease, it was thought, were those of "weak nerves," or who had experienced a "long dejection of spirits," or who had been "confined long in damp and foul air."†   (source)
  • To many he seemed prickly, intractable, and often he was, but as his friend Jonathan Sewall would write, Adams had "a heart formed for friendship, and susceptible to the finest feelings."†   (source)
  • How often do I reflect with pleasure that I hold in possession a heart equally warm with my own, and fully as susceptible of the ten-derest impressions, and who even now whilst he is reading here, feels all I describe.†   (source)
  • He did not regard his thoughts for the birds and animals as susceptible, in their first change, to words.†   (source)
  • Well, I'm just terribly susceptible to noise of any kind, the doctor has always told me I was the most sensitive person he had ever seen in his whole life, and I was simply prostrated.†   (source)
  • Life is not susceptible perhaps to the treatment we give it when we try to tell it.†   (source)
  • That he was no good or at best just a weak man who was easily susceptible to whoever he was with?†   (source)
  • Why didn't you tell me all this at first instead of preying on my susceptible heart—always weak where pretty ladies are concerned?†   (source)
  • It flattered her, where she was most susceptible of flattery, to think how, wound about in their hearts, however long they lived she would be woven; and this, and this, and this, she thought, going upstairs, laughing, but affectionately, at the sofa on the landing (her mother's); at the rocking-chair (her father's); at the map of the Hebrides.†   (source)
  • After graduating from high school, Myeko, the most susceptible of the three children to the A-bomb syndrome, eventually became an expert typist and took up instructing at typing schools.†   (source)
  • He might just as well have said that the proud man who knew his own worth would not be susceptible to flattery, for he would believe that there was nothing anybody else could tell him about his own worth he didn't know already.†   (source)
  • The trance-susceptible shaman and the initiated antelope-priest are not unsophisticated in the wisdom of the world, nor unskilled in the principles of communication by analogy.†   (source)
  • It is not a good thing when man overstrains his reason and tries to reduce to rational order matters that are not susceptible of rational treatment.†   (source)
  • The feeling at bottom might have resolved itself simply into a desire for the companionship of elegant and lovely women: neither was able, nor would have dared, to confess this, and Eugene was unable to confess that he was susceptible to the social snub, or the pain of caste inferiority: any suggestion that the companionship of elegant people was preferable to the fellowship of a world of Tarkintons, and its blousy daughters, would have been hailed with heavy ridicule by the family, as…†   (source)
  • As the matter was not susceptible of proof in any other way, it was put to the decision of personal combat.†   (source)
  • …tell it to: so she was right about the father too since if he hadn't made General Lee and Jeff Davis mad he wouldn't have had to nail himself up and die and if he hadn't died he wouldn't have left her an orphan and a pauper and so situated, left susceptible to a situation where she could receive this mortal affront and right about the brother-in-law because if he hadn't been a demon his children wouldn't have needed protection from him and she wouldn't have had to go out there and be…†   (source)
  • Why, I had accepted of Grandma Lausch's warning only the part about the danger of our blood and that, through Mama, we were susceptible to love; not the stigmatizing part that made us out the carriers of the germ of ruination.†   (source)
  • But we also feel that, since the contract exists and is susceptible of only one reasonable interpretation, this state, which wishes to encourage industry and enterprise within her borders, cannot do otherwise than bow to an arrangement which, though obviously unjust in its working, is binding in the law.†   (source)
  • And I found him most susceptible,—susceptible to reason, I mean.†   (source)
  • But assuming that he is, it is not so susceptible of proof.†   (source)
  • I myself am peculiarly susceptible to draughts.†   (source)
  • Gulden might have been susceptible to flattery.†   (source)
  • But Helen had never before in her life been so keenly susceptible to experience.†   (source)
  • He had always been susceptible to the laughter of the gods.†   (source)
  • His state of mind, therefore, rendered him doubly susceptible to all around him.†   (source)
  • For, being susceptible, as he might well be at that age, he might prove too easy—not stern enough.†   (source)
  • Sensitive as he was, however, Hans Castorp proved less susceptible to pi than Paravant.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the soil of his susceptible nature was really predisposed to receive a pleasant impression.†   (source)
  • I am afraid that he has one of those terribly weak natures that are not susceptible to influence.†   (source)
  • Even my hide-bound narrowness is susceptible to change.†   (source)
  • At last he found an individual who had a resort in Warren Street, and susceptible of improvement.†   (source)
  • And it must be confessed that Natalie is very susceptible.†   (source)
  • They are susceptible of high cultivation, and are fast becoming settled.†   (source)
  • She was all the more susceptible about Mr. Casaubon because of her morning's trouble.†   (source)
  • I am very susceptible to such horrid things.†   (source)
  • "My dear young man," he said at last, "you must be very susceptible.†   (source)
  • With regard to madame, she has always seemed to me, I confess, very susceptible.†   (source)
  • Their susceptible nerves took an indefinite alarm from what they had overheard.†   (source)
  • "That is extraordinary for a lady," said Monsieur Boulanger; "but some people are very susceptible.†   (source)
  • The very quietness with which Mr. Turnbull spoke had frightened her susceptible imagination.†   (source)
  • Maggy was very susceptible to personal slights, and very ingenious in inventing them.†   (source)
  • Their flight will throw the worst coloring over this event of which it is susceptible.†   (source)
  • He is susceptible, and—I—think—the conquest—'†   (source)
  • This was his second lonely day of travel and he had grown more and more susceptible to the influence of horizon and the different prominent points.†   (source)
  • I believed unhesitatingly both in his forecast of human destiny and in the practicability of his astonishing scheme, and the reader who thinks me susceptible and foolish must contrast his position, reading steadily with all his thoughts about his subject, and mine, crouching fearfully in the bushes and listening, distracted by apprehension.†   (source)
  • And recollect—it was a YOUTH, at the particular age which is most helplessly susceptible to the distortion of ideas!†   (source)
  • The driver was a little wizen-faced man of doubtful years, and he did not appear obviously susceptible to the importance of his passenger.†   (source)
  • Her education or, rather, her sophistication, had been absorbed from the boys who had dangled on her favor; her tact was instinctive, and her capacity for love-affairs was limited only by the number of the susceptible within telephone distance.†   (source)
  • And he would be put to the test, to see whether he was willing to have no secrets from Mme. Verdurin, whether he was susceptible of being enrolled in the 'little clan.'†   (source)
  • Hegglund, intensely susceptible to humor at all times, doubled to the knees, slapped his thighs and bawled.†   (source)
  • But she's extraordinarily attractive, he thought, as, walking across Trafalgar Square in the direction of the Haymarket, came a young woman who, as she passed Gordon's statue, seemed, Peter Walsh thought (susceptible as he was), to shed veil after veil, until she became the very woman he had always had in mind; young, but stately; merry, but discreet; black, but enchanting.†   (source)
  • It was altogether an unusual departure from the ranch; and Madeline, always susceptible even to ordinary incident that promised well, now found herself thrillingly sensitive to the soft beat of hoofs, the feel of cool, moist air, the dim sight of Stewart's dark figure.†   (source)
  • A sensitive, susceptible, exaggerative, earnest man: a megalomaniac, who would be lost without a sense of humor.†   (source)
  • If she replied to it in a serious spirit it would still leave in his mind the impression that she had in a susceptible moment yielded to his influence.†   (source)
  • I waved my hand back and forth, of course without effect; but when the moving shadow fell across his face I saw at once that he was susceptible to the impression.†   (source)
  • He made up his mind that he would go to the shop every day; it was obvious that he had made a disagreeable impression on her, but he thought he had the wits to eradicate it; he would take care not to say anything at which the most susceptible person could be offended.†   (source)
  • His pleasant neatness and compactness, his small hands and feet, his teeming ready brain, his unaffected accessibility, and a certain fine apprehensiveness which stamped him as susceptible from his topmost hair to his tipmost toe, proved irresistible.†   (source)
  • She looked a very dainty picture of English rural life, and no wonder that the susceptible young Frenchman could scarce take his eyes off her pretty face.†   (source)
  • 7 degrees—that was too high, it was a fever, the result of an infection to which he had been susceptible.†   (source)
  • He came within the meaning of a still newer term, which had sprung into general use among Americans in 1880, and which concisely expressed the though of one whose dress or manners are calculated to elicit the admiration of susceptible young women a "masher."†   (source)
  • She had always been susceptible to the somber, mystic unrealities of the night, and now her mind slowly revolved round a vague and monstrous gloom.†   (source)
  • He had always found a peculiar fascination in tracing in the paintings of the Old Masters, not merely the general characteristics of the people whom he encountered in his daily life, but rather what seems least susceptible of generalisation, the individual features of men and women whom he knew, as, for instance, in a bust of the Doge Loredan by Antonio Rizzo, the prominent cheekbones, the slanting eyebrows, in short, a speaking likeness to his own coachman Remi; in the colouring of a…†   (source)
  • Helen had always been hoping and waiting for a favorable hour in which she might find this wilful sister once more susceptible to wise and loving influence.†   (source)
  • But even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others.†   (source)
  • Likewise the stirring of her blood, always susceptible to the spirit and motion of a ride, let alone one of peril, now began to throb and burn away the worry, the dread, the coldness that had weighted her down.†   (source)
  • Time proved no blessing—in his twenty-first year of life he died of the illness to which he had been susceptible.†   (source)
  • Be that as it might, she knew many things seemed loosening from the narrowness and tightness of her character, sloughing away like scales, exposing a new and strange and susceptible softness of fiber.†   (source)
  • I pride myself on not being one of these susceptible: If you study the electric light with which I supply you in that Bumbledonian public capacity of mine over which you make merry from time to time, you will find that your house contains a great quantity of highly susceptible copper wire which gorges itself with electricity and gives you no light whatever.†   (source)
  • "It is of course possible that you tend to be more susceptible to the harmless type," she said and seemed to look at him with the well-advanced sty—he was not sure how she managed that.†   (source)
  • He had always been susceptible to bronchitis and fevers, and then one day he actually coughed up red, and Joachim was shipped off posthaste to Davos—much to his great regret and dismay, because he was very close to seeing his ambition fulfilled.†   (source)
  • He had not known how many days would have to pass, but one morning at early breakfast he received his orders from the head nurse, who had another sty now—it could not be the same one; apparently she was naturally susceptible to this harmless but disfiguring ailment.†   (source)
  • We know what we are saying when we add—perhaps somewhat darkly—that his fate might have been different if his disposition had not been so highly susceptible to the charms of the emotional sphere, to the universal state of mind that this song epitomized so intensely, so mysteriously.†   (source)
  • But catarrhs are not colds, they come from an infection to which one is already susceptible, and the only question is whether what we have here is an innocent infection or one that is less innocent, all the rest is twiddle-twaddle.†   (source)
  • It was his way of honoring the stroll by the shore, the abiding ever-and-always, the hermetic magic, to which, once withdrawn from the world, he had proved so susceptible—the magic that had been his soul's fundamental adventure, in which all the alchemistic adventures of that simple stuff had been played out.†   (source)
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