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Chris -- 2018-04-11
The term ‘sovereign remedy’ means “potent to a high degree” and has been in use since 1377. ‘Suffering remedy’, or as many of us might pronounce it, sufferin’ remedy, seems a little odd as surely all remedies are for relief of pain or illness. Anyone unfamiliar with ‘sovereign’ might reasonably eggcornify the expression into ‘suffering remedy’ but I submit this with no great confidence:
... they have been home from the sanatorium but still receiving suffering remedy each 4 hours and still has crispness or breath. Can the cancer come back? .
Those who have some-more suffering can make make use of of prescribed suffering remedy in sequence to assuage the discomfort. ...
... as if he was revelation her “alright if you think you do not wish any suffering remedy you go forward and try it for a night and see what happens. ...
2002_06_26 – There is no suffering remedy for our man-hours but to love one another constantly, to refer ourselves to the disposal of Heaven, ...
To understanding with her pain, she had unchanging shots of lidocaine, wore a suffering remedy vegetable patch that was 80 times stronger than morphone, ...
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¡Superb! ¡Sovereign! ¡Sufferin’ fabulous!
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2009-06-17 16:04:09)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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