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"ref": "1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CXIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume VII, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 415:",
"text": "And then, his head ſinking on his pillow, he expired; at about half an hour after ten.",
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"text": "Hippolita, ſcarce more alive than her daughter, was regardleſs of every thing but her: but when the tender Iſabella’s care would have likewiſe removed her, while the ſurgeons examined Matilda’s wound, ſhe cried, remove me! never! never! I lived but in her, and will expire with her.",
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"text": "Soon the patient had no longer sufficient strength to sit up; the trunk of the body was inclined to the right side, the head high and thrown backward, the mouth wide open: she seemed to stifle rather than respire: lastly, speech and respiration failed her; she uttered, however, in a feeble voice, some incoherent words, said she felt she was dying, and, accordingly, expired the sixth day after entrance.",
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"ref": "1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:",
"text": "Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air.",
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"ref": "1717, John Dryden, Meleager and Atalanta:",
"text": "This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire.",
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"ref": "1843, Loring Dudley Chapin, (Please provide the book title or journal name):",
"text": "Animals expire carbon and plants inspire it; plants expire oxygen and animals inspire it.",
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