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Example sentences for "empty stomach"

  • My investigations had taught me how useless it is to talk ethics to a man with an empty stomach.

  • A man with a full stomach can do twice as much work as one with an empty stomach.

  • FOR A CHILD OF FOUR TO EIGHT YEARS, one for a laxative or two for a cathartic will act nicely, if given on an empty stomach.

  • Perhaps he was hungry--unusually hungry; or perhaps he is a victim to dyspepsia, and cannot go through any excitement upon an empty stomach.

  • We do not always know what the saints win for us, nor how much the fuller we may be for our holy neighbor's empty stomach.

  • A empty stomach is a plumb unreasonable thing.

  • Overland, experienced in the remorse that follows liquor on an empty stomach, swore vigorously and picturesquely.

  • It should be given on an empty stomach at least half an hour before meals.

  • To the causes of indigestion already alluded to may be added the habit of spirit-drinking, especially the habit of taking alcohol undiluted on an empty stomach, which rarely fails after a time to engender dyspeptic symptoms.

  • It should always be given on an empty stomach.

  • It acts most injuriously when it is but slightly diluted and taken on an empty stomach.

  • Take large quantities of water on an empty stomach, mineral waters are no better than others, but treatment of chronic and irregular gout at springs gives the advantage of regular hours, diet, etc.

  • If the fruit juice is given upon an empty stomach early in the morning, it works more actively upon the bowels, than when given later.

  • Foods are supposed to be particularly suited to an empty stomach.

  • If it is a food why do all writers and experimenters exclude it from the diet of children, and why is the caution always given people to not take it upon an empty stomach?

  • This is, perhaps, the most extreme case of destruction on record; the cause of the unusually violent action is referable to the acid acting on an empty stomach.

  • With an empty stomach it takes a very long time to get into such torpor--drowsiness--as compels the after-dinner sleep.

  • Gentle reader, did you ever ride on horseback fifty miles in one night, on an empty stomach, after having ridden thirty miles during the day?

  • So I went round on an empty stomach, hunting up my expressman parcels, and wending my way to the stable with arms and pockets running over.

  • Tis cruel to go abroad on an empty stomach.

  • No doubt an empty stomach inclines a man to much logic and the splitting of straws.

  • There comes with an empty stomach less of grossness and more of abstract reason, and an exaltation which may be all impractical, but which is recklessly acute.

  • If a boy cannot take exercise upon an empty stomach, let him have a slice of bread and a draught of milk.

  • Besides, he ought to have his morning ablution on an empty stomach, or it may interfere with digestion, and might produce sickness and pain.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both fore; disciplina arcani; either country; empty bottle; empty chair; empty house; empty room; empty space; empty stomach; good half; horse shoe; human thought; keep out; looking fellow; loved the; much harm; multicellular organisms; must still; occupied territory; other property; round slices; specific forms; stranger here; study them; superior quality; veal stock