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Like its related postural malady, “text neck,” these syndromes are signs of how computation is beginning to stretch us, both cognitively and corporally.

From Slate • Nov. 15, 2012

My spirit, which no official can exclude, is present every night, though sordid considerations force me to remain corporally in my attic.

From A Chair on the Boulevard by Merrick, Leonard

One of these was "The Apostleship of Prayer," whose members, women, were to be active in doing good works, corporally and spiritually, in Trieste.

From The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II by Wilkins, W. H.

They either intended to chastize him corporally, or gave it out that they had really done so, in order to bring shame upon Mr. Pope, which, if true, could only bring shame upon themselves.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. by Cibber, Theophilus

By so doing, God our Lord will be greatly served, and the poor aided spiritually and corporally.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXVI, 1636 by Blair, Emma Helen