But “convulsive” epileptic events are not over in “a few seconds” without any residua. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Waivers of Liability for “Gross Negligence”:] Reference
The residua of distillation remain almost entirely in the reservoir, O, from whence they are easily removed. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882] Reference
The following table presents three most important continuous t-norms, their residua and the corresponding negation. From Wordnik.com. [Fuzzy Logic] Reference
Again he says, "The more things we try to explain, the better we realize that we live in a world of unexplained residua.". From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Life of the Christian] Reference
It has long been suspected that there are underground tunnels and caverns on the moon, presumably the residua of lava tubes. From Wordnik.com. [Entrance Found to Underground Lunar Tunnel] Reference
All the African lakes hitherto discovered are shallow, in consequence of being the mere ‘residua’ of very much larger ancient bodies of water. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
Amongst those that appear only at a later period are the residua of the food, which include the deposits of the belly and also those of the bladder. From Wordnik.com. [On the Parts of Animals] Reference
These residua are all black and glossy like common pitch, which differs from them only in having been less acted upon by fire, and thence in being softer. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Of these fluids the excremental residua of the food may be suitably discussed by themselves, when we come to examine and consider the subject of nutrition. From Wordnik.com. [On the Parts of Animals] Reference
The former, however, is now seldom to be met with, the varieties employed on the palette being the residua of various resinous and bituminous matters, distilled for the sake of their essential oils. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
This is contained in a membranous pouch, which is attached to the body and provided with a terminal outlet just at the point where what is termed the funnel gives issue to the residua of the stomach. From Wordnik.com. [On the Parts of Animals] Reference
The waters derived from a prolonged steeping of vegetables, and charged with all the soluble principles extracted therefrom, have, after their sojourn in a proper medium, deposited the carbonized residua that have themselves become soluble, and have there formed masses of combustibles of. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885] Reference
For though even the residua are occasionally used by nature for some useful purpose, yet we must not in all cases expect to find such a final cause; for granted the existence in the body of this or that constituent, with such and such properties, many results must ensue merely as necessary consequences of these properties. From Wordnik.com. [On the Parts of Animals] Reference
It is the residua of these experiences that have persisted and become associated into complexes which are retained as traits of our personality. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference
In truth, every bit of built California no matter how seemingly august was concocted out of the residua of other places by immigrants bringing their baggage. From Wordnik.com. [independent.com stories] Reference
Strange how close the analogy between love and hunger; in each case the effort is after closer union and possession; in each case the outcome is reproduction (for nutrition is the most complete of reproductions), and in each case there are residua. From Wordnik.com. [Luck or Cunning?] Reference
Manion told Truthout that while working at Camp Lejeune, he was deeply concerned with the fact that he was seeing an inordinate number of Marines grappling with overwhelming suicidal or assaultive impulses, and felt, like others, that this was clearly indicative of the residua of extreme combat stress. From Wordnik.com. [Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org] Reference
Joyce has attempted -- it seems to me, with astonishing success -- to show how the screen of consciousness with its ever-shifting kaleidoscopic impressions carries, as it were on a plastic palimpsest, not only what is in the focus of each man's observation of the actual things about him, but also in a penumbral zone residua of past impressions, some recent and some drawn up by association from the domain of the subconscious. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheila Variations] Reference
Hey, I don’t call them Frankenstein queries for nothing: this easily-identifiable type of revision residua might as well be waving a white flag at Millicent, shouting, Hey, lady!. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Querypalooza, part XXIII: when the going gets tough, the tough get…wait — what do you mean, they wanted 50 CONSECUTIVE pages?] Reference
A question of sensation, feeling, or ideas, we have these neutral dry and colourless residua, which spread lifeless over the surface of ourselves, "like dead leaves on the water of a pond.". From Wordnik.com. [A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson] Reference
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