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However, the average human has only 5.5 liters of blood (a quantity that could be estimated by draining a cadaver).
But trying to starve the terrorists of money is like trying to catch one kind of fish by draining the ocean.
You can take a ferryboat through the harbor, past the ingenious Plover Cove reservoir, a water catchment area appropriated by damming and draining a broad inlet from the sea.
One side effect of Manjushri’s draining of the lake was that the snake gods called Nagas, which lived in water, were left with no place to live.
"It's very draining physically and emotionally," said Josh Pons as he drove around the farm in a golf cart a few minutes later.