circumvolution

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The circumvolutions of the brain, which was soft and watery, appeared twice as deep as usual, and much more numerous.

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If bricklayers waste motions in laying bricks, how about the motions wasted in lifting one’s hat and the circumvolutions in putting links in one’s cuffs?

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Their words I could not catch at first through the tumultuous howl, but it went on and on, like their circumvolutions, over and over again, till my brain reeled.

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My years, if mentioned, would not, perhaps, appear to be many; but age, in the sense in which I take it, cannot be calculated by circumvolutions of the sun.

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All the more insane were the circumvolution of that fictitious Primum Mobile, which is higher, deeper, and still more immeasurable.

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