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Who amongst us hasn't had swollen lymph nodes with a cold?
The legs were swollen and the knees were stiff, so he needed a long preparation.
Over the next few days, his head was swollen with abscesses, and in fact his eye was so infected that they had to take it out, and by February of 1941, this poor man was on the verge of dying.
Before they got swollen and arthritic, my mom's fingers clacked away in the hospital H.R. department where she worked.
My right knee was swollen up, and you could hear that ominous crunch of bone against bone.
If the olfactory epithelium gets swollen or infected, it can hamper your sense of smell, something you might have experienced when you were sick.
And, "How swollen is your vulva?" (Laughter) She never would have thought of herself as a feminist, my mother, but she always used to say, "Anything a man can do, I can fix."
Soon Deminan was delirious and his back was so swollen his brothers feared he would die.
And by day 13, the lesions are scabbing, his eyelids are swollen, but you know this child has no other secondary infection.
All around her head was just swollen; her head was about two sizes of its own size.
And I remember taking the goggles off my face and looking down at my hands in sheer shock, because my fingers had swollen so much that they were like sausages.
And they were swollen so much, I couldn't even close them.
And the pizza-faced monster effects which created by Rino Carboni are not only simply cheap but also problematically unrealistic; at least his face seems to be too swollen to eat raw human fresh.
In fact, the deficit has swollen.
Today, China’s urban working-age consumers number 521 million; in just 15 years, their ranks will have swollen to 628 million.
That ambivalence might explain the shrugged shoulders at news that DRC electoral registers had allegedly become swollen with hundreds of thousands of fake names.
The French government, unwilling to cut its swollen public sector, is now thumbing its nose at the Stability Pact and its enforcers in the European Commission, saying that it has "different priorities" than those required by the pact.
That will disappear, and it will leave behind a heavy burden of foreign debt that will be further swollen by the budget deficits of the next few years.
Moreover, returns on real estate have been swollen by the dramatic fall in interest rates over the last 25 years, a decline that was far advanced even before the 2008 financial crisis.
In the United States, the Dodd-Frank Act’s famous “Volcker rule,” which seeks to limit banks’ proprietary trading, has swollen to hundreds of pages, and its introduction has been repeatedly delayed.
As a result, the country is now swollen with all sorts of phobias – against sexual minorities, against the so-called “propaganda of sex” among young people, against critics of the Orthodox Church, and, as always, against the West.
But another question looms: How will central banks achieve a final “exit” from unconventional monetary policy and return balance sheets swollen by unconventional monetary policy to “normal” levels?
In 1924, French physician Jean Frumusan described the “torpid” obese: “pale and puffy, whose flesh is swollen as if by liquids.
The Decent Work ImperativeNEW YORK – Over the past decade, the ranks of the unemployed have swollen to close to 190 million worldwide.
The Fed had less room to lower rates, and its balance sheet had swollen to roughly $4 trillion.
The old man made a grimace of satisfaction and pointed to the Voreux:"Yes, yes; they have pulled me three times out of that, torn to pieces, once with all my hair scorched, once with my gizzard full of earth, and another time with my belly swollen with water, like a frog.
It was sixty metres from the cutting to the upbrow, and the passage, which the miners in the earth cutting had not yet enlarged, was a mere tube with a very irregular roof swollen by innumerable bosses; at certain spots the laden tram could only just pass; the putter had to flatten himself, to push on his knees, in order not to break his head, and besides this the wood was already bending and yielding.
They separated in silence with buzzing ears, as if their heads had swollen with the grave questions they had been discussing.
came down last, still yawning and with their eyes swollen.
Then the coarse face of this man hardened to work in the mines became swollen with despair, and large tears broke from his eyes and fell in a warm rain.
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