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Eyes flattening, slight greyness of pupil, loss of Sheen, specks no longer luminous, body slime cloudy, Slight bleaching of gills and accumulation of slightly cloudy slime.
Chapter 7 1983
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The Dwarfs (1960). – in Slight Ache and Other Plays.
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The Dwarfs (1960). – in Slight Ache and Other Plays.
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A Night Out (1959). – in Slight Ache and Other Plays.
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A Night Out (1959). – in Slight Ache and Other Plays.
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[22] Slight, that is, in comparison with nineteenth-century changes.
Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought 1906
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"Did you ever read the story in the 'Diary of a Physician,' called A Slight Cold?" asked Moreland.
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The most important features of this framework (which I have been calling "Slight" -
World of SL 2009
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"Slight" cognate with German "schlicht" has some claim, but is more Norse than Anglo-Saxon, and would be misleading.
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"Slight," that is, a small offense or fault; called "venial," not because it is not a sin, but because God pardons it more willingly or easily than He does a mortal sin.
Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine Thomas L. Kinkead
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