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You appear regularly in his dreams that, to his great distress, invariably conclude with nocturnus ejaculatio.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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You appear regularly in his dreams that, to his great distress, invariably conclude with nocturnus ejaculatio.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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Licinius Macer, however, attempts to show that he had given up the clerk's business for some time as he had been a tribune of the plebs, and had also twice held office as a triumvir, the first time as a triumvir nocturnus, and afterwards as one of the three commissioners for settling a colony.
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To illustrate by a comical example how one wearing the blinders of medical mythology may miss the understanding of such cases I will relate a case which I found in a thesis on _pavor nocturnus_ by _Debacker_, 1881.
Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Sigmund Freud 1897
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For the night terrors with hallucinations (_pavor nocturnus_) frequently found in children, I would unhesitatingly give the same explanation.
Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Sigmund Freud 1897
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Sophonisba was obliged to leave her friend; for it was her duty to attend the nocturnus with the queen.
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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'Systema Naturae', it is enumerated as a second species of Homo; "H. nocturnus."
Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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'Systema Naturae', it is enumerated as a second species of Homo; "H. nocturnus."
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Hu - iusmodi fur nocturnus, in quem elegans epigramma Philippi Thessalon. exstat Anal.
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