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The doctors had required him to record the time of every heart-affecting moment: bowel movements, meals, and each time he had intercourse.
Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006
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The doctors had required him to record the time of every heart-affecting moment: bowel movements, meals, and each time he had intercourse.
Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006
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The Ivy Summer-house is the most convenient for this heart-affecting purpose of any spot in the garden, as it is not far from the back-door, and yet in another alley, as you may remember.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Recollection! heart-affecting recollection! how it pains me!
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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The doctors had required him to record the time of every heart-affecting moment: bowel movements, meals, and each time he had intercourse.
Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006
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The doctors had required him to record the time of every heart-affecting moment: bowel movements, meals, and each time he had intercourse.
Riding Rockets Astronaut Mike Mullane 2006
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* There seems to be no way of identifying Miss Forbes. with her pencil of Sensibility, to have done justice to this group of heart-affecting figures.
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Meaning and the Method of Life_ -- a book which those will read who can and ought -- that the eye is the most psychical, the most spiritual, the most useful, and the most valued and cherished of all the senses; after which he adds this wonderful and heart-affecting scientific fact, that in death by starvation, every particle of fat in the body is auto-digested except the cream-cushion of the eye-ball!
Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) Alexander Whyte 1878
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I think it is the mournfulest face that ever was painted from reality; an altogether tragic, heart-affecting face.
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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And therefore, affirmatively, this forgetting of God stands in opposition to frequent and ordinary, serious and heart-affecting thoughts of God.
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822
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