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Heinemann English Dictionary
Compare SLEEPY SICKNESS. sleepless adjective 1 without sleep. 2 unable to
sleep. Word Family sleeplessly advcrb; sleeplessness noun. sleepover noun an
occasion when someone has a friend or friends to stay the night at his or her ...
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic
sleepy-sickness epidemic of the 19205. The forgetting of sleepy-sickness (
encephalitis lethargica) and the forgetting of Tourette's have much in common.
Both disorders were extraordinary, and strange beyond belief — at least, the
beliefs of a ...
but if anyone hurt her I was the first to defend her. When Bobby was fourteen and
due to go to Oakham School, he developed sleepy sickness — encephalitis
lethargica. There was an epidemic at that time, although how he got it was a
mystery; ...
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The Colonial Disease: A Social History of Sleeping
Sickness ...
They advised the state authorities to take immediate action to control the further
spread of sleeping sickness. It was certainly not the first time the disease had
been reported. The 'sleepy sickness' had been noted in the region in the early
1880s ...
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African Ecology: Benchmarks and Historical Perspectives
The Timmanees call it ma ́rree, or,'nluoi, and the Bulloms, nago ́nloˆe, or
kandeera: it is called by the Soosoos, kee ko ́llee kondee, or sleepy sickness,
and by the Mandingos, seenoyu ́ncaree, a word of similar import. The disease is
very ...
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Bach Flower Remedies: Form and Function
He wrote of the Clematis people as: having little desire for life day-dreaming
types content to be left alone imperturbable having little ambition to survive 'the
severest type of sleepy sickness'-' This last observation is particularly acute since
...
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Bach Flower Remedies Form and Function
'the severest type of sleepy sickness'32 This last observation is particularly acute
since Bach must have been aware of the strange and inexplicable outbreak of a
type of sleep sickness in the 1920s—it was an illness without aetiology and ...
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Suggested by sand-man (q.v.) and sleepy sickness. Also, same milieu and period
, sleepy buds (P.B.). sleepy-walker. A sleep-walker: lower classes' coll.:—1887 (
Baumann). sleeve. See six pots. sleeve-board. A word hard to pronounce: ...
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Neill of Summerhill (Routledge Revivals): The Permanent Rebel
One girl, for example, had sleepy sickness: 'She was completely dopey, and
dribbled a lot, and it was disgusting to have to eat with her,' one pupil remembers.
In May 1927, Neill wrote: 'she is improving a bit. Most interesting material I am on
to ...
The unfortunate victims had under the old system often been brought before the
magistrates, who either imprisoned them or left them at large to commit yet more
offences; and as the law stood, victims of sleepy sickness could not be ...