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- noun Plural form of
body .
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Examples
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The effect on their bodies is as if they are continually flying west across time zones ...
Weblogs Maxine 2009
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Unless one has excellent DNA or as many of my rich cousins do, excellent plastic surgeons, dealing with wreckage of our bodies is a slow gradual process.
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The effect on their bodies is as if they are continually flying west across time zones ...
Phoenix not sent off-course by comments Maxine 2008
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The effect on their bodies is as if they are continually flying west across time zones ...
May 2008 Maxine 2008
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The effect on their bodies is as if they are continually flying west across time zones ...
Phoenix not sent off-course by comments Maxine 2008
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"Young women are taught from the moment they're born that the way they should experience their bodies is as someone looking at them, as opposed from internally," says Nita Mary McKinley, a professor of interdisciplinary arts and sciences at the University of Washington-Tacoma who has studied body image for more than a decade.
USATODAY.com - What's a girl to do? 'Hot' and brainy brings mixed emotions 2006
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An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.
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Mt 19: 28, "regeneration, when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of His glory"; the resurrection of our bodies is a kind of coming out of the womb of the earth and entering upon immortality, a nativity into another life [Bishop Pearson].
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The resurrection of our bodies is a kind of coming out of the womb of the earth, and being born into another life.
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If a theory of this kind is true, or even if it is conceivable, our idea of matter may have been introduced into our minds through our experience of those systems of vortices which we call bodies, but which are not substances, but motions of a substance; and yet the idea which we have thus acquired of matter, as a substance possessing inertia, may be truly applicable to that fluid of which the vortices are the motion, but of whose existence, apart from the vortical motion of some of its parts, our experience gives us no evidence whatever.
Five of Maxwell's Papers James Clerk Maxwell 1855
lampbane commented on the word bodies
"Skin against skin, blood and bone
You're all by yourself but you're not alone
You wanted in, now you're here
Driven by hate, consumed by fear
Let the bodies hit the floor"
August 29, 2008