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" No creature could be more grateful than my patient after his recovery ; a sentiment which he most significantly expressed, by licking my hand, first the back of it, then the palm, then every finger separately, then between all the fingers, as if anxious... "
Buffon's Natural history, corrected and enlarged by J. Wright. (To which are ... - Page 339
by Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831
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The Scots Magazine, Volume 46

1784 - 722 pages
...exprefled, by licking my hand, firit the back of it, then the palm, then every finger fep.iraiely, then between all the fingers, as if anxious to leave no part of it unfaluted; a ceremony which he never performed but once again upon a fiinilar occnfion. Finding him...
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Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 54

1784 - 536 pages
...fignificantly cxpceiled, by licking my hand, firftthc back of it, then the palm, .then every finger feparately, then between all the fingers, as if anxious -to leave no part of it unfaluted, a ceremony which he ncĀ»er performed but once again upon a fimilar occafion. Finding him...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1800 - 438 pages
...patient after his recovery ; a sentiment which he most significantly expressed, by licking my hand, first the back of it, then the palm, then every finger...my custom to carry him always after breakfast into the garden, where he hid himself generally under the leaves of a cucumber vine, sleeping or chewing...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1800 - 364 pages
...fignificantly Re nprefled by licking my hand, fuft the back of it, then the palm, then every finger feparaiely, then between all the fingers, as if anxious to leave no part of it unfaluted ; a ceremosy which he never performed but once again upon a limilar occafion. Finding him...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1800 - 394 pages
...fignificantly exprefled by licking my hand, firft the back of it, then the palm, then every finger feparately, then between all the fingers, as if anxious to leave no part of it unfaluted ; a ceremosy which he never performed but once again upon a fimilar occafion. Finding him...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1802 - 350 pages
...which he most significantly expressed by licking my hand, first the back of it, then the palm, /lieu every finger separately, then between all the fingers,...performed but once again upon a similar occasion. landing him extremely tractable, I made it my custom to carry him always after breakfast into the garden,...
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Poems, Volume 1

William Cowper - 1802 - 364 pages
...fignificantly expreffed by licking my hand, firft the back of it, then the palm, then every finger feparately, then between all the fingers, as if anxious to leave no part of it unfaluted ; a ceremony which he never performed but once again upon a fimilar occafion. Finding him...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1805 - 366 pages
...by licking my hand, firft the back of it, then the palm, then every finger fepanitely, then kctween all the fingers, as if anxious to leave no part of it unfaluted ; a ceremony which he never performed but once again upon a fimilar occafion. Finding him...
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper: Of the Inner Temple, Esq, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1806 - 234 pages
...patient after his recovery ; a sentiment which he most significantly expressed by licking my hand, first the back of it, then the palm, then every finger...my custom to carry him always after breakfast into the garden, where he hid himself generally under the leaves of a cucumbe* vine, sleeping or chewing...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pages
...patient after his recovery ; a sentiment which he most significantly expressed' by licking my hand. first the back of it, then the palm, then every finger...unsaluted ; a ceremony which he never performed but onct again upon a similar occasion. Finding him extremely trac;able, I made it my custom to carry him...
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