Sample Sentences forcorpuscle (auto-selected)
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I said "corpuscle."† (source)
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Ruth heard the supplication in her words and it seemed to her that she was not looking at a person but at an impulse, a cell, a red corpuscle that neither knows nor understands why it is driven to spend its whole life in one pursuit: swimming up a dark tunnel toward the muscle of a heart or an eye's nerve end that it both nourished and fed from.† (source)
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By a corpuscle.† (source)
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I know that I in, say, an ancient place like Venice or in Rome, passing along the side of majestic walls where great men once sat, experienced what it was to be simply a dot, a speck that scans across the cornea, a corpuscle, almost white, almost nothing but air: I to these ottimati in their thought.† (source)
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His face was red, the corpuscles around his thick nose swollen.† (source)
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The drop in the number of white blood corpuscles reduced the patient's capacity to resist infection, so open wounds were unusually slow in healing and many of the sick developed sore throats and mouths.† (source)
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There were kidneys, nerve sheaths and corpuscles.† (source)
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Corpuscle islands.† (source)
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A gritty, corpuscular universe, a grating of stiff and angular machines.† (source)
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—it's not this, not this that she is depending on to keep body and soul together: it is as though she were living on the actual blood itself like a vampire, not with insatiability, certainly not with voracity, but with that serene and idle splendor of Rowers arrogating to herself, because it fills her veins also, nourishment from the old blood that crossed uncharted seas and continents and battled wilderness hardships and lurking circumstances and fatalities, with tranquil disregard of whatever onerous carks to leisure and even peace which the preservation of it incurs upon what might be called the contemporary transmutable fountainhead who contrives to keep the crass foodbearing corpuscles† (source)
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Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.† (source)
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God's unity was indubitable and indubitably announced, but on all other points he wavered like the average Christian; his belief in the life to come would pale to a hope, vanish, reappear, all in a single sentence or a dozen heart-beats, so that the corpuscles of his blood rather than he seemed to decide which opinion he should hold, and for how long.† (source)
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Why should streptococcus dissolve the red blood corpuscles of sheep more easily than those of rabbits?† (source)
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I always thought they should be called corpuscles.† (source)
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A few confused resemblances: clouds or distant coast, birds or corpuscles, fled across my eyes.† (source)
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He mixed the supernatant fluid from a centrifugated culture with a suspension of red blood corpuscles and placed it in the incubator.† (source)
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