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When my four children were little and clinging around my ankles, nap time meant a life-restoring escape into another world.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW:Eugenia Lovett West, part 1 2010
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Characters are color-coded on-screen via a glow effect to help players keep track, featuring 'life-restoring' pizza and 'ninja magic' granting the ability to fire breathe and create electrical shields.
Archive 2009-10-01 Michael Stevens 2009
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He was a firm believer in the life-restoring properties of distilled wine and I'd proved him right oftener than enough.
Come To Grief Francis, Dick 1995
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He was a firm believer in the life-restoring properties of distilled wine and I'd proved him right oftener than enough.
Come To Grief Francis, Dick 1995
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The French say, _C'est la soupe qui fait le soldat_, and we have always found on a tramping expedition nothing so life-restoring after fatigue and hunger as the portable soup now so easily obtained at places where prepared food is put up for travellers 'uses.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 Various
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In these stories the life-restoring substance is an ointment; leaves possessing the same power are found in
Italian Popular Tales Thomas Frederick Crane
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It may be remarked, however, that the life-restoring book is analogous to the magic book in "Vetâlapancavinçati," No. 2, while the repairing of the shattered ship by means of the magic stones suggests the stitching-together of the planks in Grimm, No. 129.
Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler
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Father Bates's house at Beira, by Dan Terry, as he lay on his cot and drank in the air from the sea in life-restoring draughts.
Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902
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This they were made to feel by his healing touch, his cleansing hand, and his life-restoring virtue.
Life and Labors of Elder John Kline the Martyr Missionary Kline, John 1900
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But when they got to Gakdul there was abundance of the life-restoring element for all, beasts and men, thanks to the Royal Engineers and their pumps.
For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War Lewis Hough 1899
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