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Now it is probable that when these thunder and lightning showers with a great deal of warmth and spirit descend forcibly into the caverns of the earth, these are rolled around, and knobs and tumors are formed like those produced by heat and noxious humors in our bodies, which we call wens or kernels.
Symposiacs 2004
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Now it is probable that when these thunder and lightning showers with a great deal of warmth and spirit descend forcibly into the caverns of the earth, these are rolled around, and knobs and tumors are formed like those produced by heat and noxious humors in our bodies, which we call wens or kernels.
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Swindon, Crewe and other railway "wens"; but except for some miles of small red-brick villas, packed close together on the bleak wolds that surround the town, it has not greatly suffered and is still essentially agricultural.
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes
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Others cited the Alps as nature's shames and ills, as boils, blisters, warts, and wens, and even called the peaks the "Devil's arse" and the steep valleys "Nature's pudenda."
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011
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Others cited the Alps as nature's shames and ills, as boils, blisters, warts, and wens, and even called the peaks the "Devil's arse" and the steep valleys "Nature's pudenda."
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011
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Others cited the Alps as nature's shames and ills, as boils, blisters, warts, and wens, and even called the peaks the "Devil's arse" and the steep valleys "Nature's pudenda."
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011
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Others cited the Alps as nature's shames and ills, as boils, blisters, warts, and wens, and even called the peaks the "Devil's arse" and the steep valleys "Nature's pudenda."
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011
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Others cited the Alps as nature's shames and ills, as boils, blisters, warts, and wens, and even called the peaks the "Devil's arse" and the steep valleys "Nature's pudenda."
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011
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Others cited the Alps as nature's shames and ills, as boils, blisters, warts, and wens, and even called the peaks the "Devil's arse" and the steep valleys "Nature's pudenda."
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011
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Others cited the Alps as nature's shames and ills, as boils, blisters, warts, and wens, and even called the peaks the "Devil's arse" and the steep valleys "Nature's pudenda."
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011
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