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  • Langdon fought the gag reflex and relaxed his chest while his pulmonary capillaries dilated.†  (source)
  • Percy traced his hand across a web of capillaries.†  (source)
  • But already the water is filling her capillaries, improving the flow of her blood; already she thinks more keenly.†  (source)
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  • All my tissues hurt when I saw them, when I saw Rose with them, as if my capillaries were carrying acid into the furthest reaches of my system.†  (source)
  • From a distance, it looks like a simple vial, but stepping up to look at it more closely Hiro can see at least half a dozen tiny individual compartments inside the thing, all connected to each other by capillary tubes.†  (source)
  • His gaze keeps sliding toward the mess on her head, the shiny clump of brain tissue, the crisscrossing network of veins and capillaries.†  (source)
  • The Old Magic that crested within him was terrifying, electric surges of energy that rocketed through every vein and capillary.†  (source)
  • Capillaries in our retinas were spontaneously hemorrhaging.†  (source)
  • The wallpaper was short-lived in humid weather because it ate up all the nutrients and then went grey; also it could not tell the difference between drooling lust and murderous rage, and was likely to turn your wallpaper an erotic pink when what you really needed was a murky, capillary-bursting greenish red.†  (source)
  • Pressure on the capillaries from tight clothing keeps them from filling.†  (source)
  • The corpse spun around, staring at David as though every vein and capillary would burst.†  (source)
  • I even know what capillaries are, I even spelled it right.†  (source)
  • They are not that massive, but they come equipped with a capillary, a very tiny channel, that emerges here, as you can clearly see, just above the tip.†  (source)
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