The products of combustion of tobacco are chemical substances which are also toxic, and nausea naturally stops the smoker before symptoms of acutepoisoning result.
Until his trouble has reached an acute stage, the alcoholic feels little interest in any of the methods advertised as remedial for alcoholism.
Then there is no place whatever in Scotland for the care of the acute alcoholic case?
I know that by so doing I may cause acute mental discomfort to those who have made of heredity an excuse for their errors not only to their friends, but in their own minds.
Modern society presents few spectacles of suffering more acute than that endured by the drunken drug-fiend.
A drug-taker, deprived of his drug, will experience in the early stages only acute discomfort and a natural longing for the drug of which he has been deprived.
The first thing that a physician must do when confronted by a case of alcoholic or drug addiction is to learn whether it is acute or chronic.
Even Miss Mohun, acute as she was, had no suspicions, and only thought with much satisfaction that her niece was growing more attentive to poor Lilian Giles, even to the point of lingering.
However, she was quite content that Ada should be the preferred one, and perhaps no one less acute than herself would have felt that the treatment as intimates and as part of the family was part of the duty of a model wife.
Gillian, in the corner of a Rockstone carriage, had time for the full heart-sickness and tumult of fear that causes such acute suffering to young hearts.
He sat where he was, asprawl, propped by his arms behind him, watching with acute concentration the injured departure of Cora, following her sister.
It was perfectly definite; but the acutegentleman laughed genially.
Claws very long, slender, slightly arched, much compressed, tapering to a very acute point.
Claws rather long, arched, much compressed, laterally grooved, tapering to a very acute point.
Bill slightly shorter than the head, tapering to an acute point; wings with the second and third quills equal and longest, the fourth and first about equal; tail even.
And, therefore, the most natural thing in the world was for him to exhibit a trifle of eccentricity in the style of his epistolary correspondence, in such trying circumstances, even with so acute and caustic a critic as Father Parsons.
The Honourable Anne Vaux, whose maternal grandfather was Sir Thomas Beaumont, Master of the Rolls, was a level-headed woman of acute mental perceptions as well as of great moral ardour and intense spiritual exaltation.
The keenness of the countenance portrayed struck a distinguished Oxford friend of mine forcibly the moment he beheld the picture, for he remarked forthwith, "He has an acute look!
Now Garnet[A] was a man of most acute mind and very clear-sighted; but he was intellectually unimaginative as well as morally weak-willed.
My hands were swollen and in acute pain, but I did not flinch nor show a sign of suffering.
Had he thought for a moment how the mesalliance would affect his mother, he must have seen it would occasion her sorrow and acute mortification.
The eye of a seaman is acute on his element, and his mind is quick in forming opinions on all things that properly appertain to his profession.
In August and September the situation became so acute that England and Germany were popularly said to have been "within two weeks of war.
The spinal cord did not appear to have been primarily injured, but acute inflammation had been set up, and had extended to the membranes of the brain.
On one occasion, though the number of the party could not exceed twelve, she suffered the whole day from acute headache, brought on by apprehension of the evening.
She was animated, cheerful, and intelligent in conversation, and her remarks were not taken on trust, but were the effects of acute penetration.
She possessed an acute and penetrating judgment, and great sublimity and fertility of genius; and her talents were cultivated with assiduity by her father and other preceptors.
Opposite Cumberland Island is the mouth of the Cumberland River, which comes from Kentucky, and falls into the Ohio, at an acute angle.
The sick man, whose senses were of course rendered doubly acute by illness, once more demanded in a fretful tone, who was there?
Some time hence, it will be a curious inquiry to ascertain the causes of that acute and sensitive morbidity of mind, which has been, and still is, so epidemic a disease.
All men whose minds are sufficiently laborious or acute to love the reading of metaphysical inquiries, will by the same labour and acuteness separate the chaff from the corn--the false from the true.
He was writhing with the most acute and morbid pangs of conscience that my experience, which has been pretty ample, ever witnessed.
Financial panics were more acute here than in any other land, and the evil clearly was traceable in large part to defects in the banking situation.
In a federal case[10] the judge, in a brief andacute dictum, recognized the evil of a rate war that would result from threats of definite cuts.
It would have been a very acute observer that could have read that pale, secretive face.
One of the most acute critics of the mid-Victorian prophets of progress, Dr.
But Jermyn had been too acute to let Harold know this: he had even carefully kept to the masculine pronoun.
Harold is remarkably acuteand clever," he began at last, since Mrs. Transome did not speak.
Esther felt her heart swelling with mingled indignation at this liberty, wounded pride at this depreciation, and acute consciousness that she could not contradict what Felix said.
Kitty admired her more than ever, and more and more acute was her suffering.
But I have already intimated that the character of Huxley's intellect seems to me acute and penetrating, rather than broad and comprehensive.
The keen test and acuterivalry between drivers came in the delivery of the President's Message.
His naturally acute powers of observation had been trained in this pursuit to the utmost efficiency, and there always continued to be about his descriptive writing a reportorial and newspaper air.
I passed on, thinking of the wisdom of placing a tired negro on guard over an acute and desperate Yankee.
It seemed as though every joint and bone in my body had lost the power of motion, and sharp, acute pains danced along my nerves, as I have seen the lightning play along the telegraph wires.
