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  • And, further, once we reject the theory that these images reach us by way of some outstreaming from the objects seen, there is no reason to think of the air being affected and passing on to us, in a progression of impression, what has been impressed upon itself.

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

  • The corpuscles which have passed into the tissue around the vessels are carried away by the outstreaming fluid, and the web becomes swollen from the increased amount of fluid which it contains.

    Disease and Its Causes William Thomas Councilman

  • This is due to the loss from the blood of the outstreaming fluid and the relative increase in the number of corpuscles, added to by the unevenness of surface which the attached corpuscles produce.

    Disease and Its Causes William Thomas Councilman

  • "None," says Ruysbroeck, putting this same experience, this meek outstreaming of the bewildered spirit, into other language, "is sure of Eternal Life, unless he has died with his own attributes wholly into God."

    Practical Mysticism 1875-1941 1915

  • "None," says Ruysbroeck, putting this same experience, this meek outstreaming of the bewildered spirit, into other language, "is sure of Eternal Life, unless he has died with his own attributes wholly into God."

    Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People Evelyn Underhill 1908

  • When, in the outstreaming torrent of the three divisions that striped the plain with columns of marching men, the 106th left Boult-aux-Bois in the rear of the cavalry and artillery, the sky was again overspread with a pall of dull leaden clouds that further lowered the spirits of the soldiers.

    The Downfall ��mile Zola 1871

  • Nevertheless it could not succeed in this, for the outstreaming rays were so powerful, that they pierced through all the boughs and shone down right into his heart.

    The Life of Blessed Henry Suso by Himself. Heinrich or Suso 1865

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