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
Respectable practitioners of physic thought him brilliantly mad, philosophers thought him brilliantly sane.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It was nothing a good physic or a patent medicine wouldn’t take care of.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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Even so, students around the country are using the tools to help write essays, complete math and physics problem sets, and otherwise present the illusion of knowledge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
It came from Dangerfield’s love of quantum physics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
He also evangelizes about the benefits it will bring to the study of biology, mathematics and physics.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
Thanks to favorable physics, AM signals also travel much farther—I once picked up a station in Chicago at nighttime while driving through North Carolina.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026
“I’m speaking very loudly, and you’re only three feet away. The elementary physics of sound waves assures me that you are receiving my auditory signals.”
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
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But look here: doctors look at people’s tongues to see whether they wants to be physicked, or to have their arms or legs cut off.
From The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War by George Manville Fenn
And physicked me and made me worse, Till infancy became a curse?
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood
Say”––his eyes wandered to where his carefully written regulations were posted, “talkin’ o’ baths, have you physicked the kids right?”
From The Twins of Suffering Creek by Ridgwell Cullum
With despair in his heart he still wrote on, simply because the labour in which he had delight physicked the pains of impecuniosity.
From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by H. G. Somerville
The people get stoppage of the bowels and die in eight days unless they are physicked; all who have sent for me in time have recovered.
From Letters from Egypt by Janet Ross
The principal or almost only hope of cure consists in bleeding, physicking, and blistering on the right side.
From The Dog by William Youatt
Talk's a brew Mischievous, heady, easy raised, whose sting Is ill to bear, and not by physicking Voided.
From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Maurice Henry Hewlett
The doctors lost half their practice in consequence of the reliance of the people on these spiritual methods of physicking.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various
I will next speak about those other four subjects which Scrofa outlined, namely: the feeding, breeding, raising and physicking of sheep.
From Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Fairfax Harrison
Victualling and physicking are very good things, but must be done in season.
From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 by Charles James Lever
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