How To Use Leech In A Sentence
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It was like leeches they used back when, to draw off bad blood but in this case they drew off fat.
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This trek also marked our first encounter with leeches.
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In classes we had to make pills, suppositories, and powders, and recognize cupping and leech glasses!
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The best way to avoid infections of this kind from A. buntonensis is to apply antibiotics such as gentamicin, amikacin, chloramphenicol and tetracycline to the wound immediately after the leech has released itself.
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Install Leech Killer 1.5 and kill junk messages with flings.
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I've seen a few of the files on various torrent sites, they are being leeched on by the thousand.
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This is probably one of the most archaic sensory receptors, which is present even in invertebrates such as the roundworm, leech or aplysia Time-surface temperature thresholds for thermal injury of Human skin.
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I have been in relation successively with the English and American evacuant and alterative practice, in which calomel and antimony figured so largely that, as you may see in Dr. Jackson's last "Letter," Dr. Holyoke, a good representative of sterling old-fashioned medical art, counted them with opium and Peruvian bark as his chief remedies; with the moderately expectant practice of Louis; the blood-letting "coup sur coup" of Bouillaud; the contra-stimulant method of Rasori and his followers; the anti-irritant system of Broussais, with its leeching and gum-water; I have heard from our own students of the simple opium practice of the renowned German teacher, Oppolzer; and now I find the medical community brought round by the revolving cycle of opinion to that same old plan of treatment which John Brown taught in Edinburgh in the last quarter of the last century, and Miner and Tully fiercely advocated among ourselves in the early years of the present.
Medical Essays, 1842-1882
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I reckon that gobby bitch who got slapped got all that she deserved (and look at her lapping up the publicity, even that leech Clifford is on it now).
Policeman killed - NO STORY. Woman slapped - BIG STORY. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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In their hands, too, was almost all the science of the day; their _medicine_, _botany, _ and _astronomy_ displaced the old nomenclature of _leechdom_, _wort-cunning, _ and _star-craft_.
Brief History of English and American Literature
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Those people who operate these servers… are parasites leeching off the creativity of others.
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He leeched his father for his fortune.
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It sat there like some leech or scarab that nothing could shake off
COMPULSION
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Leech had a picture of "A Quiet Smoke" in _Punch_, which depicted five ladies in short wide skirts and "bloomers" in a tobacconist's shop, two smoking cigars and one a pipe, while "one of the inferior animals" behind the counter was selling tobacco.
The Social History of Smoking
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I screamed again, flitting back and forth along the fence in search of a way in, but before his name stopped echoing down the street, the leech mutated from pink to red, a rapid discoloration that reminded me of how the lure in the administration window had changed.
Bleeding Violet
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The key to identification of leeches covers several features, including the number and placement of the eyes.
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An endless series of powders, theriacs, electuaries, leeches, mixtures and tablets of various types, decoctions, ointments and plasters were discussed and classified.
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If they could have made money without work they would have gladly engaged in shady deals or just acted as parasites, leeching off society or their parents.
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She clung on like a leech, her fingers tightly gripping his shoulders, and Ben could clearly hear her heart beating as well as his own.
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I've had tons of leeches, foot rot, botflies, and a bite from a coral snake that nearly killed me.
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Make a classroom wall dictionary of all the new worm words your students are learning: annelid, fanworm, earthworm, flatworm, leech, lugworm, nematode, planarian, ribbonworm, spoonworm, tapeworm… to name several.
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Or the items have been soaked in fresh water and chemical baths to leech out the saltwater that threatens to destroy them.
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`I am a leech and an apothecary, not your personal physician.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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He recognized the gesture for what it was, and the tenderness leeched out of his voice.
The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf
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From the days of bleeding with leeches, modern medicine has come full circle to once again see nature is the best place to look for cures to the things that ail us.
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It is not so, an it please your pagehood," said the leech.
The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day
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Anyway, the North American variety are in the genus Macrobdella, very pretty leeches, sort of an olive colour with a red underbelly and red polka dots going down the back.
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There's also the obligatory nice hot chick (Jennifer Morrison) who's meant to balance out the film's other depictions of women as sluts, leeches and psychopaths.
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Predictably, leeches, cupping, and blood letting take the centre stage of treatments.
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And all of this is aimed at propping up the leeching bludgers from the non-industry superannuation sector.
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She then opens a lacquered wooden box on the silver tray and using a pair of long silver tongs extracts a writhing leech.
THE SAVAGE GIRL
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For example, visitors will discover that cows are one of the gassiest animals on earth, how leeches are used after some surgeries to assist in the healing process and why scientists are studying the slime produced by slugs and snails for clues in treating cystic fibrosis.
Southern Byways
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Humphreys, having started the wickets rolling by snaring Martin Leech with a snick to Walker, then got a delivery to lift and Kaushal chopped it onto his stumps for 12.
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Once considered a symbol of the practices of medieval physicians, medical leeches have emerged as a useful component of certain modern therapeutic protocols.
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West Shamokin earned its title berth with victories against Leechburg (25-4, 25-10, 25-11),
Post-gazette.com - News
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Salvage procedure. Medical leech attached to the congested replanted tongue segment.
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_Leechie_ did not say a word, but only went _clack, clack, clack_, and chuckled with pleasure.
Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar
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As for that," retorted the man in a sing-song voice, "no one can tell whether a medicine be antidote or poison, unless as leechcraft and chirurgery point out --
Under the Rose
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As the researchers walked around barelegged, often climbing mountains into cooler, beclouded rain forests beloved of leeches, they were mercilessly stung by mosquitoes.
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If previous attempts to remove the body have caused œdema of the meatal walls, and if the symptoms are not urgent, no further attempt should be made until the swelling has been allayed by syringing with warm boracic lotion, and by applying one or more leeches to the tragus.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
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While at rest, the medicinal leech lies under large objects on the shoreline, partially out of water.
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After the war he was engaged for about nine years in mining and then entered the rolling-mill at Leechburg, where he was a beater for eight years.
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It dreads the prospect of a future where more and more wagering ends up with non-fee paying operators ‘leeching’ off racing.
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Roman, Arabian, and Syrian; and he was skilled in astronomy and in leechcraft, the theorick as well as the practick; he was experienced in all that healeth and that hurteth the body; conversant with the virtues of every plant, grass and herb, and their benefit and bane; and he understood philosophy and had compassed the whole range of medical science and other branches of the knowledge tree.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Rustem exerted every muscle to shake off his opponent; but the leech was the stronger, for the Masdakite was weakened by fever and loss of blood.
The Bride of the Nile — Volume 04
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They also point out a particular substance called polypropylene, as opposed to polycarbonate, that may be too much to remember at this hour of the morning, but polypropylene less likely to actually have the bisphenol A leech out.
CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2007
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Havelok, that he might call a leech to heal his wounds, for if the stranger merchant should live Jarl Ubbe would without fail dub him knight; and when the leech had seen the wounds he said the patient would make a good and quick recovery.
Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race
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He described that the leeches were placed on the body and would clear out blood and congested fluids.
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Here, in the rocky steppes of the western part of the continent, there was no water, and the coldness leeched into every living thing, through hair, fur, and skin, whether worn or grown.
More Conan Fan Fiction!
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My shy little sister clung to me like a leech all through the party.
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Crops such as oilseed and linseed which can be produced in bulk and processed quickly and efficiently may in future be modified to produce the anticoagulant hirudin which is found naturally in leeches.
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Tacks and sheets are shackled, and the clew-garnets are lashed to the clews; when ready, man the reef-tackles, leechlines, and buntlines, and clew-garnets, and walk all the gear up together.
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Ribbon leeches, which have firm bodies and minimal suction, make excellent bait, but a walleye will turn up its nose at a horseleech or medicine leech, which have soft, squishy bodies and strong suction.
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And yes, before anyone else writes me smug emails, I know that leeches are very useful in modern medicine, but what I actually said was ` leechcraft’.
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He had read about them in a book called Magnet Stories, where there was a girl called Theodosia, and she could play brilliant trebles on the piano in duets, but the other girl knew all about leeches which is much more useful and golden deedy.
The Wouldbegoods
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One eye, magnified, glared at her balefully over a rounded blotch of white where a cheek was leeched to the pane.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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Just to make sure there was not a way on at the other end of the last entrance doline, they thrashed through the leech infested jungle, but found nothing.
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Ever since doctors were using leeches, policy makers have been leveraging the threat of a medical crisis as a tool to change our minds.
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Happiness leeches spread their bad behaviour.
Times, Sunday Times
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The square sails themselves are controlled by drawlines called clew-garnets running up from the lower corners, leechlines running in diagonally from the middle of the outside edges, buntlines running up from the foot, and spilling lines, to spill the wind in heavy {107} weather.
All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
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Over the next few months though, she kind of glommed onto me like a giant soul sucking leech.
Toastcrumbs Diary Entry
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A small jig or hook baited with a giant red worm, small leech, hellgrammite or wax worm has worked best.
JSOnline.com
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Information on 113 trematode, 86 cestode, 13 acanthocephalan, 37 nematode, 5 leech, 12 mite, and 15 lice species is included.
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How many could afford to go out routinely for Pad Thai, Japanese sushi, Armenian khorovatz, Ethiopian aleecha, Chorizo Argentino, Lebanese hummus and shawarma, or even a nice, simple blueberry bagel?
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Piggybacking or leeching on timely news is common as well, making it harder still to have any lasting impact.
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Is it possible to get a copy of your leechcraft article?
Unlocked Wordhoard
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So, what does he offer in return .... leeches and blood-letting.
Obama, GOP trade barbs in health care fight
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Pistol once again brings attention to the seamy side of war, in his declaration that in France they will be like horseleeches, sucking blood.
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Anne Leech, Elizabeth Gooding, Hellen Clark, Anne West, and this examinant, met all together at the house of the aforesaid Elizabeth
The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology
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Happiness leeches spread their bad behaviour.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you thought the use of leeches in medicine was a thing of the past then think again.
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Whereupon the leech bedusted him with a little, I know not what, sort of powder, which rendered him a fool immediately, so great was the stultificating virtue of that strange kind of pulverized dose.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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She agrees, then discovers her legs covered in bloodsucking leeches.
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Yes | No | Report from jmcctheboss23 wrote 33 weeks 6 days ago jitterbug is my all time favorite lure and as far as bait goes id have to say leeches
Favorite fishing bait all time.
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This rare fossil of an armour-plated worm was dug out of an Albert Street construction site in 1997, discovered among the rubble at a dump-site in Nepean, and just recently identified as a plumulitid machaeridian, a relative of modern leeches and earthworms that existed between 480 and 250 million years ago.
Science
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Once as much of the good stuff has been leeched out of the chyme as your system can do, the soup is passed on to the large intestine salmon colored in my cartoon.
Evolution of the appendix? - The Panda's Thumb
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I have done all I might for him, for by my craft have I staunched his blood; but I wot that he needeth long leechdom to be made whole.
The Sundering Flood
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But some of these operations might have failed if leeches had not been reintroduced into the operating room.
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On sailboats underway, it may be flown from the aftermost peak or leech in place of other ensigns.
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One and all, we got horribly infested with leeches, having a frill of them round our necks like astrachan collars, and our hands covered with them, when we came out.
Travels in West Africa
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While im sure the downloader is also uploading at the same time (bittorrent needs to upload in order to download unless youre a total leech and rig it) the whole point is that the game information your sending should be treated the same way as any bootleg (btw NOT all bittorrent files are bootleg, bittorrent is commonly used to move huge legitimate files across since its so efficient.) youre both paying, just because you consider your game to be of more importance doesnt make it so.
Comcast: We Need to Play Internet Traffic Cop - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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But this alteration leeches away the story's moral implications.
Christianity Today
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Ease the traveler all the way and adjust the boom vang to control leech tension.
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By the time we finally got to the rock, there were 22 leeches resident in my boots, but none had penetrated the galoshes.
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Indeed, in this neighbourhood it commonly receives an early check from escharotic applications of the cow leech.
On Vaccination Against Smallpox
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At first all expression leeched from his pale blue face.
The Case of the Colonist’s Corpse
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The effect was like a writhing smiley face fashioned out of live leeches.
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She was worshipped by poets, and had two sisters of the same name connected with leechcraft and smithwork.
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It is unlikely that until the monasteries came any organised leechcraft even existed.
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“It is not so, an it please your pagehood,” said the leech.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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These mention only prescriptions like rhubarb, the blue pill, Dover's powder, tinctures and leeches listed in any contemporary European dispenser.
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When I first began studying Anglo-Saxon magic and medicine, I wondered why the big compendia like Bald's Leechbook and Leechbook III (both in MS Royal 12 D. xvii, for those who care about manuscript stuff) didn't have cures that involved the physicians applying blood-sucking leeches to the patients; it was only later that I realized that the use of the wormy leeches in "leechcraft" only came much later.
Origins of "Leech"
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The leech is a segmented worm related to the earthworm.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the novel, the poem's been torn out of a college textbook and treasured by Bruno, the murdering, sociopathic boozehound dilettante who exists, leech-like, on his mother's allowance.
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Shylock chimes with the jewbaiting that followed the hanging and quartering of the queen's leech Lopez, his jew's heart being plucked forth while the sheeny was yet alive: _Hamlet_ and _Macbeth_ with the coming to the throne of a Scotch philosophaster with a turn for witchroasting.
Ulysses
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The reason you have such a low lamprey count is the leeches crowded them out.
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When the kid found out we were going to leave him at home he started up a howl like a calliope and fastened himself as tight as a leech to Bill's leg.
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Eblana in Horne’s house that now was trespassed out of this world and the self night next before her death all leeches and pothecaries had taken counsel of her case).
Ulysses
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It's a bit of a shame, especially as the leeches used for therapy sessions aren't your average leeches.
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This method does not interfere with the use of the so called midship-tack, but change of putting on bands, from the leech of the sail at the reef to the center tack would be necessary.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
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I have seen a tadpole heart pumping white, whiter, white, whiter after an encounter with an aquatic leech.
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Research for that Gothic feast had me eating fried leeches.
Times, Sunday Times
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In 1833 alone, French doctors imported 41.5 million leeches - a measure of the prevalence of bleeding.
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When the sloop was in the fiercest squalls, with only the reefed forestaysail set, even that small sail shook her from keelson to truck when it shivered by the leech.
Sailing Alone Around the World
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Even with gravity on my side, I am not as fit as I used to be when I cycled to work every day back in the 1980s. sleech, the sludgy estuarine deposits on the banks of the Lagan.
Slugger O'Toole
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On the other hand, if the luff below the spreaders backwinds first then the leech has to be eased.
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But this alteration leeches away the story's moral implications.
Christianity Today
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Since he has his living in the water he keeps his mouth all full within of leeches; and whereas all other birds and beasts fly from him, the trochilus is a creature which is at peace with him, seeing that from her he receives benefit; for the crocodile having come out of the water to the land and then having opened his mouth (this he is wont to do generally towards the West Wind), the trochilus upon that enters into his mouth and swallows down the leeches, and he being benefited is pleased and does no harm to the trochilus.
The History of Herodotus
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Every governmental attempt to ameliorate poverty seems to attract its own breed of parasite and leech.
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#64 – Dear “Will spread Venereal disease for Food” – - No, leech, the “friggin commies” are progs at this site and others radical moon-bat sites.
Think Progress » New Poll Finds Bush Approval Stuck In Mid-30s, CNN Calls It ‘A Bounce’
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Herbals are doubtless collected by many who are not possessed of medical knowledge, and a number of them treat more of simples and housewifery than leechcraft, which is probably one reason of their attraction for the non-medical collector.
The Book-Hunter at Home
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Leech demands exceeds supply leech renown bloodsucker, have broken blood, pursue action of silt, stimulate the menstrual flow.
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She bore him down and levered herself atop him, fastening to him like a leech, scissoring his legs with her own and wrapping one arm around his neck.
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Rustem exerted every muscle to shake off his opponent; but the leech was the stronger, for the
The Bride of the Nile — Complete
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But possessions stick like leeches: you're scared to let go, but they weigh you down.
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For many years only animals such as worms, leeches and midge larvae could survive.
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'seth' is a user. he has always been a user and he will always be a user. his life story really is stella dallas, if you know the movie. and then he decided to try to be a human leech.
Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude
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Since he has his living in the water he keeps his mouth all full within of leeches; and whereas all other birds and beasts fly from him, the trochilus is a creature which is at peace with him, seeing that from her he receives benefit; for the crocodile having come out of the water to the land and then having opened his mouth (this he is wont to do generally towards the
The history of Herodotus — Volume 1
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These men were looked upon as ‘ravening wolves, horseleeches and shearers,’ from whom no man was safe.
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‘freshman’ for proselyte; ‘mooned’ for lunatic; ‘foreshewer’ for prophet; ‘hundreder’ for centurion; Jewel ‘foretalk’, where we now employ preface; Holland ‘sunstead’ where we use solstice; ‘leechcraft’ instead of medicine; and another, ‘wordcraft’ for logic; ‘starconner’
English Past and Present
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I knew Michael Kelly, who was the first journalist to die in Iraq, and I can tell you he was NOT a "leech" -- and I can assure he was not doing it for his personal enrichment.
Digg vs. The New York Times - Publishing 2.0
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Inspired by National Geographic wildlife filmmaker stories from the field, the 30 and 45 second brand spots recreate these extraordinary moments from narrowly escaping a treacherous fall while filming on a remote mountain cliff to wading through leech-infested waters in search of howler monkeys.
Nat Geo Wild Reveals New Brand Campaign *Updated* « Art & Business of Motion
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‘We were knee-deep in mud and mangroves being bitten by fire ants, leeches and bugs,’ he recalls.
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In the mid-1970s leeches revolutionized the live-bait business in nearby Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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Research for that Gothic feast had me eating fried leeches.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the turn of the century, health care seems to have come light years from the days of leeches, country-side doctors and a lack of remedies for ailments such as polio, rubella and the German measles.
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The aid of a Highland leech was procured, who probed the wound with a probe made out of a castock; i.e., the stalk of a colewort or cabbage.
Rob Roy
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The same thing is true in a microwave, where the energy is going straight into the food immediately, and so it kills those enzymes very quickly, as well, but without the problem you have in boiling of nutrients being leeched out into the water.
Harold McGee's 'Keys To Good Cooking' For Chefs
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Bring hither those skilled in leechcraft and let them look to the wounds of the Lord Gerard that he may be comforted.
Huon of the Horn
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his indolent leechlike existence
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This is why we see no more blood-letting, leeching or frontal lobotomies.
Times, Sunday Times
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Medicinal leeches in captivity can live for many years, but nobody in my local hospital knows precisely how long.
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But possessions stick like leeches: you're scared to let go, but they weigh you down.
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He lay in his elaborately curtained bed dying of the fever and from the leeches the doctors attached to various parts of his body to suck his blood.
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I reject the notion that any user is a freeloader or a leech.
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Since he has his living in the water he keeps his mouth all full within of leeches; and whereas all other birds and beasts fly from him, the trochilus is a creature which is at peace with him, seeing that from her he receives benefit; for the crocodile having come out of the water to the land and then having opened his mouth (this he is wont to do generally towards the West
An Account of Egypt
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They were like parasites, leeching on to him, just wanting him to do this or that, or to torture him.
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I cured many patients and at the same time my leechcraft improved a lot.
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Happiness leeches are often less emphatic when they feel that others recognise their views.
Times, Sunday Times
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the groupies leeched onto the rock star
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The leech is invaluable in microsurgery when faced with the difficulties of reattaching minute veins.
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In some places this _coral stone_ is covered by great quantities of green ouze or sleech, and in other places it is free from this growth.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
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He compared leeches in glass bottles from one 18th Century invention with social networking, because the inventor said * glass* bottles were used so the "little comrades … were not in social isolation".
What are we doing today, brain?
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Leeches were seen as the best option for saving it but unfortunately none were available.
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I dig the leech supply jars and tabletop pulley and cord planetaria ....
Boing Boing: June 3, 2001 - June 9, 2001 Archives
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Many star-chasers leeched onto the pop singer.
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I haven't leeched a song off the Internet for quite some time now, and even then I was on the hunt for the more obscure artists you just don't find on television or radio.
Archive 2009-06-01
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Blood was usually taken by opening a vein with a lancet, although bloodsucking leeches were regularly used.
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He leeched his father for his fortune.
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Luckily, she had an innate ability to quickly judge people-if they were honest, loyal, tricksters or leeches.
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Instructions if you come across this dvd set, remain calm,quickly using tongs and rubber gloves throw the container in a raging fire or furnace, burn for 24 hrs and then put the remaining debris into a mulcher and then bury the remains in in a concrete bunker deep underground and hope and pray it's essence doesn't leech into the ground water somehow.
Geek Deal: Full House Complete Series Collection for $79 | /Film
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Is there a simple way that I can monitor traffic to see if any neighbors are leeching off of my connection?
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If leeching tannin is the problem, a good sealer is the answer.
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Most of the leeches found in our lakes are parasites feeding on the body fluids of fish.
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Take thick-knit socks: those leeches will wriggle through anything.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are not to be manipulated or leeched off of for more than what they freely offer.
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Pistol sums up their intentions perfectly when he boasts, ‘Let us to France, like horseleeches, my boys, / To suck, to suck, the very blood to suck!’
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Like people, leeches do not always draw blood first time, and some have to be coaxed into biting.
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Research for that Gothic feast had me eating fried leeches.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is in this context that we began our studies of behavioral choice in the leech.
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The use of maggots is part of a larger category of medicine in which living organisms, like leeches or bees, are used as a direct part of treatment, a class of procedures known as biotherapy.
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The main limitation I see is that society would not work if everyone leeched off it in this way.
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It does the same thing, but instead leeches off of political opinions and events.
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I felt my shoulders loosen, a tension I hadn't been aware of leeching out of my limbs as I sagged and leaned back into the attention, letting her hand tilt my head as she needed.
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Two nights after that, he was dead, eaten from the inside out by a horde of tiny leeches.
DELUGE (Part 29) – Brian Keene
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They leeches have a little enzyme and when they are biting down on you, it gets released in your blood and generally you bleed for quite a bit and then your health is optimized -- it detoxifies your blood.
Larry Bock: The Utterances of Hollywood Celebrities: Why We Need Better Science Truth Detectors
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Gotta run now and feed the leeches, and bleed Linda for her headache… She's not reacting well to the calomel - mercurous chloride - I gave her yesterday.
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It is time this spineless Government stopped throwing cash at leeches and parasites and looked after those who really need it.
The Sun
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Marvellous resilience by the Killough travellers saw them cling on like leeches, brilliantly grinding out four winning games to record a superb victory.
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To them that were skilled in leech craft they offered a rich fee of unweighed sliver and yellow gold, that they might heal the heroes of their wounds gotten in battle; the king sent also precious gifts to his guests.
The Fall of the Niebelungs
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Such fundamental assumptions at the core of our civilization should not have to be re-stated or justified anew, and the fact that they have to be is evidence of how deeply corrupted our political life has become, but if such basic norms are not reinforced it seems clear that they will be leeched away over time.
Getting Along
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Being from minnesota eel pout is a celebrated thing but dont forget that leech lake has some amazing walleye fishing
Trash-Fish Bash: Photos from Minnesota's Eel Pout Festival
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Both tires have deep, conical lugs that grip like a colony of leeches but are spaced well-enough apart to shed even the most adhesive quag with ease.
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Over the past decade, leeches and parasitic worms have also crawled back into favour as a treatment.
Times, Sunday Times
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They're just a bunch of leeches cadging off others!
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And Dick Cheney, you fuckin leech, tell them your plans
Matthew Yglesias » “Windowsill”
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He was particularly infuriated by a statement of support from lecturers at Goldsmiths: "I can imagine what they would say were a group from the TaxPayers' Alliance to turn up at their homes and vandalise them in protest at the way these lecturers are leeching the taxpayer and failing to discipline their students.
Cribsheet daily 16.11.10
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Then, making up my bunt and putting into it the slack of the clews, the leech and footrope and the body of the sail, I hauled it well up on the yard, smoothed the skin, brought it down abaft, and made fast the bunt-gasket round the mast.
The Mutineers
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The aid of a Highland leech was procured, who probed the wound with a probe made out of a castock; i.e., the stalk of a colewort or cabbage.
Rob Roy
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What a shame Stormont is on a hill, it really feels like it should be a sleechy place.
Slugger O'Toole
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We thought that leeches were one group and their sister group with the oligochaetes, earthworms and a variety of other aquatic annelids.
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Salvage procedure. Medical leech attached to the congested replanted tongue segment.
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Belfast is built on sleech, but apparently "unforeseen underground conditions" are causing problems in Londonderry too.
Slugger O'Toole
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As for John Leech's office - are you expecting some kind of revelatory comment from me on that?
Dear Returning Officer: Check Leech John Bull Set
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And not waving 27 assorted John Leech Focus Specials, many printed in six colours for but tuppence hapenny a thousand.
Archive 2007-01-14
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A sail stretcher is fastened to the sail at the meeting point between the foot and leech of the sail and can be secured to the sail spar adjacent the rear extremity thereof in any suitable manner.
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The temple where, in the fore-court, Paaker was waiting, and where the priest had disappeared to call the leech, was called the "House of Seti
Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Volume 01
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Many polychaetes and oligochaetes, and even a few leeches, are burrowers that constantly rework the sediment through which they burrow; in addition, they may ingest and excrete large quantities of sediments or soils.
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And he heard their aresouns each gen other as touching birth and righteousness, young Madden maintaining that put such case it were hard the wife to die (for so it had fallen out a matter of some year agone with a woman of Eblana in Horne's house that now was trespassed out of this world and the self night next before her death all leeches and pothecaries had taken counsel of her case).
Ulysses
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Indeed, in this neighbourhood it commonly receives an early check from escharotic applications of the COW LEECH.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
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The study also shows that wild European medicinal leeches are at least three distinct species, not one.
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It is in this context that we began our studies of behavioral choice in the leech.
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And we don't get treated at the doctors with leeches anymore!
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Watching Court's smooth unhurrying movements, the splayed limbs leechlike on the rock face, he found himself reliving some of the climbs of his boyhood and making the ascent with them, mentally documenting each stage.
She Closed Her Eyes
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There are scenes that are black-and-white (or so leeched of color as to appear almost without hue) and others that appear intentionally colorized.
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There are no toilet facilities, and there are leeches infesting the place.
Firms Draw Scrutiny Over Thai Flood's Impact
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He saps their intelligence from them like a brain leech.
Think Progress » Bush and Merkel, united against stem cell research.
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‘These homeless are bums, nothing but leeches on society,’ wrote a guy who signed himself Trav.
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I reject the notion that any user is a freeloader or a leech.
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They hing on to you like leeches, an 'mak' a mess o 'things at the en'.
The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
