1. "A brown, rocklike fist rose out of the mass and descended with considerable force, meeting decisively with some bony protuberance, by the sound of the resultant crack."
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Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
2. "Early in my conscious life one of my fingers, not then subject to my influence, brushed past a shrimp-like protuberance between my legs. And though shrimp and fingertip lay at differing distances from my brain, they felt each other simultaneously, a diverting issue in neuroscience known as the binding problem."
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Ian McEwan, Nutshell: A Novel
3. "One fragment from Vis consists of a ski tip, under which there is a wedge-like protuberance. It is carved in the shape of an elk’s head facing towards the rear.3 It was evidently designed as a brake to prevent slipping backwards – a forerunner of modern waxless cross-country skis."
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Roland Huntford, Two Planks and a Passion
4. "Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony."
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Quote by James Allen
5. "It's about mental toughness. Mental toughness is everything."
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Jon Gordon, Training Camp: What the Best Do Better Than Everyone Else
6. "Mental illness is not funny."
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Philip K. Dick, VALIS
7. "Golf is a mental disorder."
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Quote by Edgar Rice Burroughs
8. "I crave for mental exaltation."
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Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle
9. "He's probably divorced. Mental cruelty."
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Margaret Way, The Girl at Cobalt Creek
10. "There was a sudden whoosh from above, followed immediately by a blur before my eyes and a dull thud. Captain Randall was on the ground at my feet, under a heaving mass that looked like a bundle of old plaid rags. A brown, rocklike fist rose out of the mass and descended with considerable force, meeting decisively with some bony protuberance, by the sound of the resultant crack. The Captain’s struggling legs, shiny in tall brown boots, relaxed quite suddenly. I"
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Diana Gabaldon, Outlander