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a bodily organ that is essential for life

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Thus he drew his misery around him like a regal mantle, and looked down triumphantly upon those whose vitals nourished no deadly monster.
It was said, too, that an answering hiss came from the vitals of the shipmaster, as if a snake were actually lurking there and had been aroused by the call of its brother reptile.
Horrible love--horrible antipathy--embracing one another in his bosom, and both concentrating themselves upon a being that had crept into his vitals or been engendered there, and which was nourished with his food, and lived upon his life, and was as intimate with him as his own heart, and yet was the foulest of all created things!
This insinuating personage once crept into the vitals of my great grandfather and dwelt there many years, tormenting the old gentleman beyond mortal endurance.
I have struggled with my love to the utmost, and have endeavoured to conceal a fever which preys on my vitals, and will, I hope, soon make it impossible for me ever to offend you more."
Attached to this back-bone, for something less than a third of its length, was the mighty circular basket of ribs which once enclosed his vitals. To me this vast ivory-ribbed chest, with the long, unrelieved spine, extending far away from it in a straight line, not a little resembled the hull of a great ship new-laid upon the stocks, when only some twenty of her naked bow-ribs are inserted, and the keel is otherwise, for the time, but a long, disconnected timber.
Some cling to you in woebegone misery; others come back fiercely and weirdly, like ghouls bent upon sucking your strength away; others, again, have a catastrophic splendour; some are unvenerated recollections, as of spiteful wild-cats clawing at your agonized vitals; others are severe, like a visitation; and one or two rise up draped and mysterious, with an aspect of ominous menace.
The unhappy woman flung herself upon that shoe; her consolation and her despair for so many years, and her vitals were rent with sobs as on the first day; because, for a mother who has lost her child, it is always the first day.
It guards the vitals of the instrument from crafty tampering.
The approximate blood loss in surgery was 1litre and the vitals of the patient were as follows: pulse 98/min, BP 110/70 mmHg, oxygen saturation was 100%, urine output was 200 ml from the start of surgery.
The goal is a deer bullet that shatters vitals and dumps massive quantities of energy with bone-breaking, deep-penetrating characteristics.
KARACHI -- Corruption is eating into the vitals of our nation.
NNA - Lebanese Forces leader, Samir Geagea, on Thursday criticized the negligence to care for the vitals sectors, urging for practical steps to save them.
and BodiMetrics[TM] announce a strategic partnership to market professional and consumer grade collection and analysis of health vitals with pocket-sized devices to improve management of chronic conditions, enhance quality of fitness and wellness programs and optimize clinical trials and research.
Combined with the powerful Heal Hub(TM), initially introduced as the award-winning Heal Wellbe, for the first-time ever, telemedicine is being delivered by a doctor who truly knows their patient through the context of their complete health history, home environment, and real-time vitals.