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By means of this medicine she was cured of an intermittent fever, and after her return to Spain she aided in the diffusion of the remedy.

By means of this story, the narrator, herself a writer, reveals the lone deity she worships: “the potency of the written word.”

Ever since my recovery from the fever, I had been in the custom of taking every night a small quantity of laudanum, for it was by means of this drug only that I was enabled to gain the rest necessary for the preservation of life.

In one of his more stinging pronouncements, Énard lays into his colonial forebears: “Our triumphant nations appropriated the universal with their monopoly on science and archaeology, dispossessing the colonized populations by means of this pillage of a past that, as a result, they readily experienced as alien.”

By means of this technique, Sulston and Horvitz made continuous observations of living worms, using hand drawings to record cell positions, divisions, migration, differentiation and, in some cases, programmed death, for each cell in the newly hatched worm until it reached adulthood two days later.