physic
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A spiritual adviser to Oprah Winfrey and purveyor of physic memorabilia online, Williamson spent about a year seeking the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2023
Lord Sands in “Henry VIII”: ’Tis time to give ’em physic, their diseases are grown so catching.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2020
Greenall’s Berkeley Square London Dry Gin summons, for him, “the atmosphere of an English physic garden in summer.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2012
On hours of talk or squabbling rude, Of physic, barbers, flirting, food, A gentleman does not intrude.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Well, if you don’t feel good why don’t you take a physic?
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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A decades-old puzzle in nuclear physics has centered on a strange question: why do some atomic nuclei release more low-energy gamma rays than scientists expect?
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
Researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland have now introduced a theoretical framework designed to make thermodynamics and quantum physics work consistently in the same setting.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
This is not to excuse excesses, but to point out a mundane matter of physics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The latter played Casey, a student with Ivy League ambitions whose interest in physics brings her to the figure skating world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Kepler replaced orbs with orbits because his ambition was to replace geometry with physics.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Pitt promised his help to Addington, whose father had physicked the Pitt family, and persuaded some of his followers to join the new ministry.
From The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration by Reginald Lane Poole
"Yes, they vomited and physicked me, blistered and bled me, plastered and oiled me, sweat, steamed, and everything but froze me, but without avail."
From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various
She literally swooped down upon the poor, taking one and all in charge to be fed, physicked, worked and guided according to her own ideas.
From The Bishop's Secret by Fergus Hume
Our illustrations might be indefinitely multiplied, but those given will amply suffice to show the way in which our fathers were physicked.
From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various
The prescriptions of Dr. Bulleyn, in the reign of Elizabeth, are wonderful examples of how our fathers were physicked.
From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various
In the intervals of political business she occupied herself with superintending her building and gardening operations, physicking the sick, and tyrannising over her numerous servants.
From Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century by George Paston
But Victoria easily recovered from and forgot this preliminary and bad physicking, and was soon to be seen galloping on its road of progress as if nothing to its damage could ever have happened.
From Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria by William Westgarth
So given was he to physicking himself, that it occurred to him as a natural thing to use his drugs in order to gain a few quiet literary days.
From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing
I could see her romping with them, helping them to tear their clothes; but likewise I could see her flying after them, bringing back an armful struggling, bathing it, physicking it.
From Paul Kelver, a Novel by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
And in vain it is To think of waiting longer; pitiful To dream of coaxing shy fecundity To an unlikely freak by physicking With superstitious drugs and quackeries That work you harm, not good.
From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy
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