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... rest occurred at infrequent intervals , and was usually limited to a single night . In addition to these hopeful indications in encouragement of a vigorous effort to abandon the habit , there were on the other hand certain warnings ...
... rest occurred at infrequent intervals , and was usually limited to a single night . In addition to these hopeful indications in encouragement of a vigorous effort to abandon the habit , there were on the other hand certain warnings ...
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... rest as a point of diversion from my- self — a something outside of my own miseries . At this time the sense of physical exhaustion had become so great that it required an effort to perform the most common act . The business of dressing ...
... rest as a point of diversion from my- self — a something outside of my own miseries . At this time the sense of physical exhaustion had become so great that it required an effort to perform the most common act . The business of dressing ...
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... rest . Shortening the halter so far as to bring the pony's head close to the manger , next enabled me easily to push him into a line nearly parallel with it , leaving me barely space enough to pass between . By lengthening the stirrup ...
... rest . Shortening the halter so far as to bring the pony's head close to the manger , next enabled me easily to push him into a line nearly parallel with it , leaving me barely space enough to pass between . By lengthening the stirrup ...
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... not infrequent . The chief diffi- culty was to while away the hours of day - light . My rest at night had indeed become imperfect and broken , but still it was a kind of sleep for several hours , though 24 The Opium Habit .
... not infrequent . The chief diffi- culty was to while away the hours of day - light . My rest at night had indeed become imperfect and broken , but still it was a kind of sleep for several hours , though 24 The Opium Habit .
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... rest seemed now to have become chronic , and the only relief I found was in constant though a very uncertain kind of walking which daily threatened to come to an end from general debility . Each morning I would lounge around the house ...
... rest seemed now to have become chronic , and the only relief I found was in constant though a very uncertain kind of walking which daily threatened to come to an end from general debility . Each morning I would lounge around the house ...
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