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arteries

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of Artery

Source: Webster's dictionary

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When free discussion is denied, hardening of the arteries of democracy has set in, free institutions are but a lifeless form, and the death of the republic is at hand. William Randolph Hearst

The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky. F. Scott Fitzgerald

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft. H. L. Mencken

His view of the world is one that keeps his blood pressure low, sweeping the cholesterol from his relaxed, freeway-sized arteries. Everyone knows he is going to live till age ninety, although the question that goes begging is, "for what? Steve Martin

Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire. Jim Cooper

A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind... he will need only six feet of earth. Josephus Daniels

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