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That "cries our [sic] for a national debate," he writes, since Our Fathers would have never tolerated such lily-liverishness.
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His features, coloured, as from a deep liverishness, were thick, like his body, and not ill-natured, except for
Beyond John Galsworthy 1900
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His features, coloured, as from a deep liverishness, were thick, like his body, and not ill-natured, except for
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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In the 1880s, at the height of its popularity, those taking it to cure feelings of "liverishness" were stuck down by jaundice because the plant was in fact toxic to the liver.
Boing Boing Maggie Koerth-Baker 2011
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