Example Sentences

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In appearance Moore was "insinuating, up-flowing, circulative, curvicular, pop-eyed ... a man carved out of a turnip, looking out of astonished eyes."

From Time Magazine Archive

Chilblains.—These occur in hands and feet where the circulative power is feeble, either from weakness or from tight pressure of boots or gloves.

From Papers on Health by Kirk, Edward Bruce

Instead of being foreclosed and immovable, it is, in fact, the only species of landed property that is essentially moving and circulative.

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

Instead of being foreclosed and immovable, it is in fact the only species of landed property, that is essentially moving and circulative.

From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor