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the body's sensory (feeling) and control (movement) apparatus consisting of a network of nerve cells
- He imagined that Dorothea had been to see her, and that all this effect on her nervous system, which evidently involved some new turning towards himself, was due to the excitement of the new impressions which that visit had raised.Book 8 — Sunset and Sunrise (51% in)
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