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Of course there are a good many of these things which disappear together with the body, such as the glooms, suspicions, and cloudy irritabilities, which are caused by fatigue and malaise, and by ill-health generally.

From The Child of the Dawn by Benson, Arthur Christopher

I will answer—to keep my mind free, and unbiased by all paltry and personal irritabilities of praise or censure; to let my genius take its natural direction.

From My Recollections of Lord Byron by Jerningham, Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry), Sir

It acquires irritabilities, and sensibilities with new organizations, as in wounded snails, polypi, moths, gnats, tadpoles.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

Whereas this difficulty ceases, if the embryon be supposed to consist of a living filament, which acquires or makes new parts with new irritabilities, as it advances in its growth.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

The extremities of other canals have been shewn to possess correspondent sensibilities, or irritabilities, as the two ends of the urethra, and of the common gall-duct.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus