ninth cranial nerve

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glossopharyngeal nerve

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The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

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The Eighty-ninth Congress was potentially more fertile ground for the broad range of controversial programs on his dream agenda.
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That makes New York the ninth state to require such coverage.
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I know the verse because Mrs. Bertalan used to have us do it in ninth-grade choir.
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Few have the nerve to call him and he's usually pleased when an old friend does.
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Then he lost his nerve and decided to live after all, and I called for help.
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It was Carmena, every nerve of her loyal nature on the alert to baffle this pursuer of Alessandro and Ramona.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
He directed the Ninth Symphony, and played twice himself with orchestral accompaniments.
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To add point to this success, he knew that the victor of Montebello was straining every nerve to gain this very prize.
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I hadn't the nerve to stand there and tell her she'd never see her father again this side of the pearly gates.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Methodius and Cyril, who were sent missionaries to the Sclavonians in the ninth century.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various