Excessively Sentence Examples

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  • For the most part it is excessively dry and barren.

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  • The climate of the district is liable to extremes, being very cold in the winter and excessively hot in the summer.

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  • I was still excessively scrupulous about everything I wrote.

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  • The lichens are characterized by their excessively slow growth and their great length of life.

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  • The finest work is excessively trying to the eyes of the plaiters, who can at most give to it two or three hours' labour daily.

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  • An excessively severe general condemnation was applied to all anonymous books published since 1519; and a list of sixty-two printers of heretical books was appended.

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  • If they continue to drink excessively their serum sodium level falls.

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  • This is the case in " puddled " clays, but in ordinary clay soils the excessively minute particles of which they largely consist tend to form groups of comparatively large composite grains and it is in such natural soils that the pore-space is largest.

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  • But the nationalization scheme, though apparently the only effective method of linking together and co-ordinating an excessively subdivided system of lines, has proved a source of considerable financial embarrassment.

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  • The features by which the treesnakes are distinguished are still more developed in the whip-snakes (Dryophis), whose excessively slender body has been compared to the cord of a whip. Although arboreal, like the former, they are nocturnal in their habits, having a horizontal instead of a round pupil of the eye.

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  • The belt of equatorial minimum salinity corresponds with the excessively rainy belt of calms and of the equatorial countercurrent, the salinity diminishing towards the east.

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  • The hair and ears are excessively long, the latter so much so that they are sometimes clipped to prevent their being torn by stones or thorny shrubs.

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  • Potassium cyanide is an excessively poisonous, colourless, deliquescent solid; it is readily soluble in water, but almost insoluble in absolute alcohol.

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  • Scrobiculariidae.-External gill-plates directed upwards; siphons separate and excessively long; foot without byssus.

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  • It is a mistake to stint the quantity of piping, since it is far more economical and better for the plants to have a larger surface heated moderately than a smaller surface heated excessively.

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  • Promotion in the German army is excessively slow, the senior subalterns having eighteen to twenty years commissioned service and the senior captains sometimes thirty.

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  • These texts are for the most part excessively corrupt, and despite the translations of Pierret, Renouf and Budge, much labor must yet be expended upon them before they can rank as a first-rate source.

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  • Moreover, by the processes the subject has gone through he has had those physiological activities upon which his volitional power depends excessively deranged, and not improbably permanently enfeebled.

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  • The bleak climate, however, the solitude, and the necessity of managing a household with a single servant, were excessively trying to a delicate woman, though Mrs Carlyle concealed from her husband the extent of her sacrifices.

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  • A conscientious desire to unearth the facts, and the effort of extracting from the dullest records the materials for graphic pictures, made the process of production excessively painful.

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  • He has been excessively praised by Schopenhauer, whose appreciation of the author induced him to translate the Ordculo manual, and he has been unduly depreciated by Ticknor and others.

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  • It is a smaller animal than the American woodland race, with antlers approximating to those of the barren-ground race, but less elongated, and with a distinct back-tine in the male, the brow-tines moderately palmated and frequently nearly symmetrical, and the bez-tine not excessively expanded..

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  • The Afghans, inured to bloodshed from childhood, are familiar with death, and audacious in attack, but easily discouraged by failure; excessively turbulent and unsubmissive to law or discipline; apparently frank and affable in manner, especially when they hope to gain some object, but capable of the grossest brutality when that hope ceases.

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  • The eastern half of this area is covered chiefly with volcanic plains, very dry and barren, lying between precipitous, although not very lofty, ranges; the western half is magnificently timbered, and toward the coast excessively wet.

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  • Montgomery's Life (Auburn, 1850) and John Frost's Life (New York and Philadelphia, 1847) are almost wholly devoted to President Taylor's military career, and are excessively laudatory in character.

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  • In these primeval forests the vegetation is excessively rank; passage has to be forced through thick underwood and creeping plants, between giant trees, whose foliage shuts out the sun's rays; and the land teems with animal and insect life of every form and colour.

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  • This work also has been preserved nearly entire, but it is excessively meagre.

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  • In the next year followed the Considerations sur les richesses et le luxe, combating the opinions of Necker; and in 1788 the more valuable Considerations sur l'esprit et les mceurs, a book which abounds in sententious, but often excessively frank, sayings.

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  • They were excessively admired by his own and the next generation, praised by Dryden, paraphrased by Pope, and then entirely neglected for a whole century.

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  • He was excessively precise and hard to please with reference to the final polish of his own works for publication; and it was probably for this reason that he published so little compared with the extent of his investigations.

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  • The ascent of all the points named is not difficult from the Swiss side, but excessively dangerous on the east or Italian side.

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  • Shanghai lies low, and, though the early winter is enjoyable, snow and ice being occasionally seen, the summer months are excessively hot.

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  • It is a colourless gas of unpleasant smell, excessively poisonous, very slightly soluble in water.

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  • On distillation of equal parts of dry potassium acetate and arsenious oxide, a colourless liquid of unbearable smell passes over, which is spontaneously inflammable and excessively poisonous.

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  • But this young king, aged only twenty, very much in love with his young wife and excessively fond of pleasure, soon wrecked the delicate poise of his mental faculties in the festivities of the Hotel SaintPaul; and a violent attack of Pierre de Craon on the constable de Clisson having led to an expedition against his accomplice, the duke of Brittany, Charles was seized by insanity on the road.

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  • The fact that a poem of the 13th century (the Alexandro), and certain redactions of the oldest Spanish code, the Fuero Juzgo, have a Leonese origin has been made too much of, and has led to a tendency to localize excessively certain features common to the whole western zone where the transition takes place from Castilian to Gahician-Portuguese.

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  • The Bad Lands are essentially nothing but fresh-water mud excessively weathered and eroded.

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  • They are excessively shy and wary; young cubs are often captured by the hunters who have killed the dam, but all attempts to rear them have hitherto failed.

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  • The Council had been excessively cooperative the past two days, a sign he didn't like.

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  • On the one hand there is public abhorrence of excessively punitive or humiliating treatment of children.

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  • However, this seems excessively burdensome for smaller collections.

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  • Excessively corroded metal, or metal treated with filler, emits a duller sound than does unaffected metal.

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  • Are central banks likely to err on the side of excessively costly or cumbersome systems?

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  • People with Williams syndrome are socially fearless, impulsive, erratic, and highly empathic, but they're excessively anxious about non-social situations.

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  • Excessively low rates can push up asset prices to ridiculous extremes and create bubbles.

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  • This in turn, may help prevent excessively rapid and repetitive firing of electrical signals.

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  • The review rightly identifies indefinite suspension as an excessively harsh penalty for a doctor who is sick.

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  • The sensor seems to be excessively sensitive to the red or yellow tints and the background is often mottled with yellow.

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  • This exhalation should come from the diaphragm and not be excessively noisy as in a grunt or a snort.

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  • These systems came to be viewed as excessively onerous for departments and institutions.

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  • If you never walk anywhere or are excessively overweight then these walks are probably not for you.

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  • But he could evoke pathos, he could also be excessively sentimental.

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  • Indeed the work which obtains the scanty pittance of food is for the most part excessively prolonged.

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  • All the species and new varieties are excessively promiscuous and it is difficult to avoid them crossing with one another.

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  • Continuing on aspirin could cause the prostate gland to bleed excessively at the time of implant which could compromise the success of the treatment.

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  • In some cases the blood vessels might not go through the initial shutdown phase but dilate excessively and cause this intense redness and burning.

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  • The Charing Cross criteria - based largely on Harry Benjamin's ideas in the USA are in the author's view however excessively restrictive.

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  • It reflects rather excessively high and excessively rigid pay costs.

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  • It is difficult to understand why the government reacted so excessively over disclosures of their plans to put a satellite dish in the sky.

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  • And the stupid bloody feline just sat there and looked excessively self-satisfied.

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  • Excessively tired quads can be a product of having too much of a vertical component in the running stride.

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  • Beyond that, the year was decidedly spasmodic, with islands of excessively intense activity rising out of the general miasmic torpor.

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  • As always with Disney, there are moments when it all seems a bit twee, others when it is excessively PC.

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  • Typhoid fever and spotted typhus caused an excessively high number of deaths.

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  • Good walking boots are usually sufficient, unless the weather has been excessively wet.

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  • Availing himself of the admirable generalized co-ordinate system of Lagrange, Maxwell showed how to reduce all electric and magnetic phenomena to stresses and motions of a material medium, and, as one preliminary, but excessively severe, test of the truth of his theory, he pointed out that (if the electromagnetic medium be that which is required for the explanation of the phenomena of light) the velocity of light in vacuo should xvii.

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  • Shallow sheets of water termed vleis, usually brackish, accumulate after heavy rain at many places in the plateaus; in the dry seasons these spots, where the soil is not excessively saline, are covered with rich grass and afford favourite grazing land for cattle.

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  • Indeed, some Christians lived an almost excessively puritanical life and thus incurred the wrath of the populace.

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  • The Charing Cross criteria - based largely on Harry Benjamin 's ideas in the USA are in the author 's view however excessively restrictive.

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  • If your kitten has bad breath, salivates excessively or has difficulty eating, they may have a dental problem.

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  • They also note that sentiment indicators are n't excessively bullish, which has typically meant a market turn is n't imminent.

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  • Do not fish in areas where lost fish are a virtual certainty (i.e. excessively snaggy swims).

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  • Infants have no other way to communicate their pain or needs other than by crying, and a baby that cries excessively in lieu of sleep should be investigated for a medical condition.

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  • An excessively heavy book (or a few excessively heavy books) could bring a mounted bookshelf crashing down to the floor!

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  • Wearing excessively padded socks is not necessarily a benefit, many runners prefer thin socks.

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  • Males can safely be used by ten months of age as long as they are not bred excessively.

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  • My four year old cat Juliet has started kneading excessively.

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  • She excessively grooms her tummy and inner thighs, so she is completely bald.

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  • Watch her closely and if you notice she is excessively grooming those areas, distract her.

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  • At some point during the last days of pregnancy, your cat will start grooming herself excessively.

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  • A cap means the lender will not charge excessively for the transfer.

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  • Do not drink excessively in front of children.

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  • Many women who are suffering from postpartum depression are excessively worried about the safety of their babies.

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  • Drinking excessively may cause a relapse in depression symptoms.

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  • People who suffer from alcoholism drink excessively for a prolonged amount of time.

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  • Famous for her dim-witted yet completely memorable comments, the character of Kelly was written as a stereotypical dumb blonde, complete with bimbo persona, bleached blonde hair and excessively short attention span.

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  • However, the Shih Tzu is seldom a nuisance barker nor is it excessively hyper.

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  • Outdoor areas are obviously affected by the weather, and depending on the season, surfaces may be damp, cold or excessively hot.

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  • He's one year old, not yet neutered, and excessively stubborn.

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  • They are not excitable and do not usually bark excessively.

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  • For example, a fearful dog who barks excessively may be traumatized by an anti-bark collar.

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  • If the dog house is your pet's main shelter, it needs to be extra sturdy and a comfortable temperature, especially in excessively cold or hot climates.

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  • Socialization can also help the dog get comfortable with strangers and not bark excessively at strangers as an adult.

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  • Avoid excessively thick or insulated carpeting or floor coverings like cork, as heat penetration through these dense materials is not as effective and could seriously reduce the efficiency of the heating.

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  • Their patio doors have also been manufactured to withstand a wide range of weather conditions such as heavy rain or excessively strong winds.

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  • Those that suffer from the condition are excessively tired during the day.

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  • They are not getting enough sleep, so grades drop and they may be excessively tired during the day.

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  • If you or someone you love is snoring excessively, choking or gasping for air, then consult a physician.

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  • They may feel excessively tired in spite of getting what they think is a full night's sleep.

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  • After printing the ticket, do not fold or bend it excessively, and keep the bar code area as clean and neat as possible so there are no reading problems at the park.

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  • The coaster's excessively rough ride prompted many rider complaints, however, and after Cedar Fair purchased King's Island, renovations began to smooth out the ride and tame the beast.

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  • In that regard it's a good idea to stick to easy quaffing reds, rosés and whites that are not big on drama, excessively flabby or condescendingly mawkish.

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  • Risk factors for this paralytic illness include older age, pregnancy, abnormalities of the immune system, and a recent episode of excessively strenuous exercise concurrent with the onset of the CNS phase.

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  • Excessively loose joints are the hallmark of this EDS type, formerly known as EDS type III.

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  • Individuals with this type of EDS, once called type VIIC, have extremely fragile skin that bruises easily but does not scar excessively.

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  • If the child has trouble swallowing or breathing, or is drooling excessively (in small children), emergency medical attention should be sought immediately.

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  • The most common external signs associated with Marfan syndrome include excessively long arms and legs, with the child's arm span being greater than his or her height.

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  • Parents who are in danger of abusing their children (for example, when they find themselves becoming inappropriately or excessively angry in response to a child's behavior) should seek professional counseling.

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  • In palmar hyperhidrosis, the palms of the hands are excessively wet or moist and also cold to the touch.

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  • In plantar hyperhidrosis, the soles of the feet sweat excessively.

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  • Hyperglycemia-A condition characterized by excessively high levels of glucose in the blood.

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  • A muscle that is tensed and contracted is hypertonic, while excessively loose muscles are hypotonic.

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  • Shy people may feel uncomfortable with others, but they do not experience severe anxiety, they do not worry excessively about social situations beforehand, and they do not avoid events that make them feel self-conscious.

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  • Parents should also be concerned if they feel their child is developing unrealistic expectations about body image from television or is excessively attracted to and talks about imitating violent, gory events on television or in the movies.

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  • Hypopnea-Shallow or excessively slow breathing usually caused by partial closure of the upper airway during sleep, leading to disruption of sleep.

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  • Depressive or withdrawn children may be excessively reserved, submissive, anxious, and inhibited.

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  • Paranoid personalities are often jealous, guarded, secretive, and scheming, and may appear to be emotionally "cold" or excessively serious.

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  • Easy bruising, profuse nosebleeds, postpartum hemorrhage, excessively prolonged or heavy menstrual bleeding, and postsurgical hemorrhage may also result.

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  • Difficulties often arise, for example, when adolescents begin seeing their parents' values as excessively relative.

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  • Children should not be allowed to play with other children who have open skin sores or scratch excessively.

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  • Sometimes children develop school phobia from bullying at school, an excessively critical teacher, and rejection by peers.

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  • The child depends excessively on adults and is restricted both in the development of play skills and in imagination.

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  • If the canal is excessively swollen, hearing may become muffled.

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  • Instead these secretions back up into the mouth and nasal area, causing the baby to drool excessively.

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  • Beyond its normal growth pattern, lymphoid tissue grows excessively (hypertrophies) during an acute infection, as it suddenly increases its immune activity to fight off the invaders.

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  • When a child is excessively shy, when shyness is persistent and results in high levels of anxiety in social settings and leads to social withdrawal and parents feel that their child is unhappy being shy, they should seek professional help.

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  • Parents should resist being excessively overprotective of their teenager and should consult with their physician as to which activities are safe for their child to pursue.

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  • These individuals may be excessively cheerful, have grandiose ideas, and may sleep less.

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  • If your strands are excessively damaged, hit the Ojon treatments and schedule a trim with your stylist, because there is nothing sexy about broken and dead-looking hair.

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  • If you must blow-dry your hair, use a tourmaline hair dryer on a low setting to avoid excessively drying out your hair.

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  • If you are excessively task oriented and you attack your hairstyle meticulously so each strand lies perfectly in place, then you are more valedictorian than you are emo.

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  • Avoid the use of excessively hot water, blow dryers, and other hair tools that may stress the hair.

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  • While honesty is a virtue, there is still no reason to share excessively negative information if you don't have to.

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  • Lack of a period is often due to being underweight, severely overweight, exercising excessively, or exclusive breastfeeding.

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  • That said, you'll still want to protect your feet from excessively hot sand and broken shells that could cut your feet.

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  • While slim and fit, she appears to neither be underweight nor excessively toned - just a normal, healthy young woman.

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  • Although Kim Kardashian may not immediately spring to mind as a role model, in part because she is mostly just famous for being famous, it should be noted that although she is slim, she is not excessively skinny.

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  • It should stretch easily, but not excessively, and snap right back into place.

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  • Land's End has especially has a good selection of quality merchandise that is well-made, will last a few seasons and is bright and fun without being excessively flirty.

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  • If blood doesn't clot, you can bleed excessively during surgery, causing complications.

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  • Stick to slimming, form fitting fabrics such as knit sweaters and woven cardigans, as opposed to super tight or excessively baggy shirts.

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  • Platform shoes, glitter, excessively painted faces, colored and spiked hair, blouses that harkened back to the Victorian era, leather, feathers, bell bottoms, metallic fabrics and intense colors.

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  • Moreover, the cut of Brooks Brothers' designs is tailored and fitted, but not excessively revealing.

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  • Avoid twisting the earring excessively, which could result in loosening the setting and creating a buildup of dirt and oil that dulls the stone.

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  • Not only does it stand apart from traditional neutral colors, the wallet itself is excessively functional.

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  • Its excessively lightweight construction belies the fact that it's one of the strongest bags on the market today.

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  • For some people, this excessively forward approach doesn't work.

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  • If a coupon doesn't have a visible bar code, offers no printing restrictions, doesn't have an expiration date, or seems to be for an excessively high dollar amount, chances are good that it is a fake.

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  • To keep your soccer cleats from wearing down excessively, use them only on the field.

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  • Throughout the late 1960s and 1970s, women and girls had gotten away from excessively fussy and hyper-feminine styles, but they returned in the 1980s, especially with the unwieldy stilettos.

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  • You don't have to be excessively frugal to appreciate a good deal.

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  • As the ear drum can be perforated by noises over 160 decibels it is important not to use alarms or other ring tones that are excessively loud.

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  • Demonstrating repetitive and obsessive behavior (stimming), such as rocking back and forth, hand flapping, skin picking or teeth grinding excessively.

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  • Others charge excessively for the use of resume building tools and templates.

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  • Because heat destroys enzymes, raw foodists are careful when purchasing juicers and dehydrators to ensure that the food will not be heated excessively.

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  • Although the quote request form may seem like an excessively lengthy questionnaire, it's important to remember that AAA can give a more accurate quote when the form is filled out completely and accurately.

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  • Contrary to popular belief, it only became excessively restrictive in the Victorian era.

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  • You'll know which sizes to take with you to the dressing room for analysis in order to get the best-snug, but not excessively tight--fit of the bunch.

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  • Used on the underarms, it can help people who sweat excessively.

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  • Generally, themed nail art is excessively colorful and noticeable.

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  • Products are available for normal to dry skin, combination oily skin, and excessively oily skin.

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  • French manicures are known for their squared tips and not being excessively long.

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  • Eczema is really just excessively dry skin, but it will be red and can itch severely.

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  • Wash your hair daily and after sweating excessively.

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  • As in 1894, excessively severe sentences were passed by the military tribunals upon revolutionary leaders and other persons considered to have been implicated in the outbreak, but successive royal amnesties obliterated these condemnations within three years.

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  • For some time sickness and mortality were excessively large, but the reclamation of swamp and clearance of jungle on an extensive scale by Colonel Henry Man when in charge (1868-1870), had a most beneficial effect, and the health of the settlement has since been notable.

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  • The Mandaean places of worship, being designed only for the priests and their assistants (the worshippers remaining in the forecourt), are excessively small, and very simply furnished; two windows, a door that opens towards the south so that those who enter have their faces turned towards the pole star, a few boards in the corner, and a gabled roof complete the whole structure; there is neither altar nor decoration of any kind.

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  • The creation of the city water-system has also been excessively costly, and the total cost up to the 31st of January 1908 of the works remaining to the city after the creation of the metropolitan board in 1898 was about $17,000,000.

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  • Another type of incipient crystallization which is excessively common in obsidian is spherulites, or small rounded bodies which have a radiating fibrous structure.

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  • Even within the Arctic Circle they are in many localities abundant and excessively bloodthirsty during the short summer.

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  • No group of terrestrial insects escapes their attacks - even larvae boring in wood are detected by ichneumon flies with excessively long ovipositors.

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  • The ovipositor is long and prominent, enabling the female insect to lay her eggs in the wood of trees, where the white larvae, whose legs are excessively short, tunnel and feed.

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  • Ice is a very poor conductor of heat and accordingly protects the surface of the water beneath from rapid cooling; hence new-formed pancake ice does not increase excessively in thickness in one winter, and even in the centre of the Arctic Basin the ice-covering only amounts to 6 or at most 9 ft.

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  • In the nature and position of the upland rocks - mainly crystalline schists and gneisses, excessively complicated and disordered in mass, and also internally deformed - there is found abundant proof that the peneplain is a degraded mountain region.

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  • Then it is excessively irksome to a sensitive man to be attended by women for various necessary offices.

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  • It thus appears that if the amplitude of vibration could be as much as 1 o_2 of the wave-length, the aether would be an excessively rare medium with very slight elasticity; and yet it would be capable of transmitting the supply of solar energy on which all terrestrial activity depends.

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  • The grounds for a divorce a mensa et thoro, which may be granted for ever or for a limited time only, are cruelty, excessively vicious conduct, or desertion; for a divorce a vinculo matrimonii the chief grounds are impotence at the time of marriage, adultery or deliberate abandonment for three years.

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  • The manubrium may be excessively long or very short, and in rare cases absent, the mouth then being flush with the subumbral surface.

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  • The land is excessively subdivided, and, owing to excellent cultivation, fetches very high prices.

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  • Songbirds are plentiful, especially in wooded regions, and include the American robin, oriole, thrushes, the cat-bird and various sparrows; while the English sparrow, introduced years ago, has multiplied excessively and become a nuisance in the towns.

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  • There are some very evident disadvantages of excessive height; for instance, that the weight of an excessively high column of solid coke, ore and limestone tends to crush the coke and jam the charge in the lower and narrowing part of the furnace, and that the frictional resistance of a long column calls for a greater consumption of power for driving the blast up through it.

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  • The iron for most engineering purposes needs chiefly to be strong and not excessively brittle.

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  • In the Greek Church also the Good Friday fast is excessively strict; as in the Roman Church, the Passion history is read and the cross adored; towards evening a dramatic representation of the entombment takes place, amid open demonstrations of contempt for Judas and the Jews.

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  • In excessively dry years the limits of this last division may include all of the state below Fresno and the entire Central Valley as well.

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  • The Bourbons, on their return, dismissed him, though this treatment was not, compared to that meted out to Ney and others, excessively harsh.

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  • Rigby is excessively corpulent, and has a jolly rubicund face.

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  • But he was excessively timid and cautious, and hardly mentions events, like the murder of Becket, which were subjects of controversy.

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  • Where the hard rock does crop out on the surface, it is so excessively weathered as to be with difficulty recognized as rock at all.

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  • They only travel by night; and, staying in congenial places for considerable periods, with unaccustomed abundance of provender, notwithstanding the destructive influences to which they are exposed, they multiply excessively during their journey, having families more numerous and frequent than in their usual homes.

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  • Close to the outer side of this lies a smaller fifth digit, and to the inner side two excessively slender toes (the second and third), bound together almost to the extremity in a common FIG.

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  • In the deep valleys where the mountains keep off the cool winds, it is excessively hot in summer; while on the summits of the mountains snow lies for many months.

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  • In this he was an innovator against the excessively analytic tendency of Cambridge mathematicians.

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  • A considerable degree of denitrification must, therefore, take place in the ocean, for the concentration of combined nitrogen is always excessively small.

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  • In 1891 excessively heavy autumn rains washed the arable soils to such an extent that the next season's corn crops were below average.

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  • Hence the conditions necessary to secure equilibrium when the solid phase is present are not the same as those necessary to cause crystallization to start in a number of crystals at first excessively minute in size.

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  • The coins chiefly in use were (i) copper cash, which were strung in hundreds on strings of straw, and, as about 911 weight was equal to one shilling, were excessively cumbrous, but were nevertheless valued at their face value; (ii) nickel coins, which, being profitable to mint, were issued in enormous quantities, quickly depreciated, and were moreover extensively forged.

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  • Bonnet affirms that, before fecundation, the hen's egg contains an excessively minute but complete chick; and that fecundation and incubation simply cause this germ to absorb nutritious matters, which are deposited in the interstices of the elementary structures of which the miniature chick, or germ, is made up.

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  • The summer climate in the confined space within the town is excessively hot and unhealthy.

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  • One remarkable discovery, however, of general interest, was the outcome of a long series of delicate weighings and minute experimental care in the determination of the relative density of nitrogen gas - undertaken in order to determine the atomic weight of nitrogen - namely, the discovery of argon, the first of a series of new substances, chemically inert, which occur, some only in excessively minute quantities, as constituents of the 1 The barony was created at George IV.'s coronation in 1821 for the wife of Joseph Holden Strutt, M.P. for Maldon (1790-1826) and Okehampton (1826-1830), who had done great service during the French War as colonel of the Essex militia.

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