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Not that her wounds were long in healing, but that people can scarcely be too careful and too inquisitive, after a great horse-bite.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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Camerarius 14.103 describes a case of epilepsy which he attributed to a horse-bite.
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There is mention 14.116 of a compound dislocation of the wrist-joint from a horse-bite.
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Camerarius describes a case of epilepsy which he attributed to a horse-bite.
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There is mention of a compound dislocation of the wrist-joint from a horse-bite.
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Not that her wounds were long in healing, but that people can scarcely be too careful and too inquisitive, after a great horse-bite.
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This was the only thing that could ever make him swear, but this always did; whenever the horse bit him he always swore, and of course Stevens, who laughed at everything, laughed at this, and would even get into such convulsions over it as to lose his balance and fall off his horse; and then Bowers, already irritated by the pain of the horse-bite, would resent the laughter with hard language, and there would be a quarrel; so that horse made no end of trouble and bad blood in the command.
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories Mark Twain 1872
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