Lexicographical Neighbors of Numbnesses
Literary usage of Numbnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Novel Before the Nineteenth Century: Excerpts from by Helen Sard Hughes, Annette Brown Hopkins (1915)
"She had told them, it was her opinion too, from some numbnesses which she called
the forerunners of death, and from an increased inclination to doze. ..."
2. Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations by David Hartley (1834)
"... and also in consequence of the contraction of its antagonist; as has been
shewn before. PROP. XXVIII.—To examine how far the Phenomena of numbnesses, ..."
3. Dr. Chase's Recipes: Or, Information for Everybody: an Invaluable Collection by Alvin Wood Chase (1888)
"Use, employed as a stimulant in rheumatic pains, paralytic numbnesses, chronic
glandular enlargements, lumbago, sciatica, etc. This embrocation must be used ..."
4. The study of medicine by John Mason Good, Samuel Cooper (1829)
"Where such numbnesses, however, occur without pressure or any manifest cause,
they well deserve watching and resisting by tonics or stimulants, ..."
5. Clinical Lectures on Mental Diseases by Thomas Smith Clouston (1904)
"She had pains and numbnesses in her joints and her limbs, probably neurotic in
origin. She ate well,—far more, she said, than she ever did before,—looked ..."
6. Some Account of London by Thomas Pennant (1813)
"I am told -that the searchers, who have frequent occasion to thrust their arms
deep into the chests, often feel numbnesses and paralytic affections. ..."
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