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Example sentences for "humors"

Lexicographically close words:
humorist; humoristic; humorists; humorous; humorously; humour; humoured; humouredly; humouring; humourist
  1. In the first place, the road itself, with its accompanying humors and adventures, forms a mutual and efficacious bond.

  2. Inside the building all slumbered, soundly or fitfully as health or illness decreed, carrying the humors of the stirring day into the wider realm of sleep.

  3. These contradictory humors growing hot, it fared worse with the second senator and the third, there being as much disagreement in the election of the new, as consent in the putting out of the old.

  4. By friction, these humors are released and produce electrical attraction.

  5. Since they retain the appearance and properties of a fluid in a firm solid mass,[99] Gilbert concluded that they derived their growth mostly from humors or were concretions of humors.

  6. I haue opperations, Which be humors of reuenge Pist.

  7. The King hath run bad humors on the Knight, that's the euen of it Pist.

  8. I thinke the Sun where he was borne, Drew all such humors from him.

  9. Oh peace, and the spirit of humors intimate reading aloud to him Mal.

  10. They say so most, that most his humors know Prin.

  11. It is no shame, the fellow finds his vaine, And yeelding to him, humors well his frensie Ant.

  12. This is fery fantasticall humors and iealousies Caius.

  13. I haue lost my Gowne 1 He's but a mad Lord, & nought but humors swaies him.

  14. One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed.

  15. Let the crude humors dance In heated brass, steaming with fire intence.

  16. Defn: Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power.

  17. Is my friend all perfection, all virtue and discretion Has he not humors to be endured South.

  18. Is Brutus sick and is it physical To walk unbraced, and suck up the humors Of the dank morning Shak.

  19. Many are perfect in men's humors that are not greatly capable of the real part of business.

  20. Defn: An issue or artificial ulcer for the discharge of humors from the body.

  21. Defn: A derangement or confusion of any kind, as of words in a sentence, or of humors in the eye.

  22. Were the humors of the eye tinctured with any color, they would refund that color upon the object.

  23. And yet, as though he knew it not, His knowledge winks, and lets his humors reign.

  24. Defn: The theory founded on the influence which the humors were supposed to have in the production of disease; Galenism.

  25. We shall dine together quietly, and I shall vent what is left of my humors and be refreshed by his good-humored raillery.

  26. My spirits rise; my ridiculous humors have been charmed quite away.

  27. The genius of republics (say they) is pacific; the spirit of commerce has a tendency to soften the manners of men, and to extinguish those inflammable humors which have so often kindled into wars.

  28. But it is not with a view to infractions of the Constitution only, that the independence of the judges may be an essential safeguard against the effects of occasional ill humors in the society.

  29. But however inclined we might be to insist upon an unbounded complaisance in the Executive to the inclinations of the people, we can with no propriety contend for a like complaisance to the humors of the legislature.

  30. All humors of the blood and brain take shape, And fright us with our own imaginings.

  31. Sad thoughts and humors black now fill my soul.

  32. The quantity of specific fixators in the humors depends on the surplus production of that ferment by the phagocytes and is not always the same.

  33. All these experiments proved that the extracellular destruction of the cholera vibrio was accomplished by the digestive juices which had passed from the phagocytes into the humors and not at all through a special property of those humors.

  34. He had for some time supposed that diabetes might be an infectious disease; yet he was unable to discover any specific microbe either in the humors or in the organs of the dog.

  35. He ascertained that the vaccination of animals by toxins conferred, after a time, antitoxic powers to the blood and humors which contained leucocytes.

  36. Experiments on divers higher animals having proved that, in them also, antitoxins were localised in humors containing phagocytes, Metchnikoff concluded that the antitoxins were manufactured by the cells themselves.

  37. Chauveau, on the other hand, thought that, in cases of immunity, the humors contained substances which were unfavourable to microbes.

  38. The cytases are kept within the interior of the cells and only escape into the humors when the phagocytes are damaged (Pfeiffer's phenomenon).

  39. You will us to reade for the same, Ware the soone in his ascensione Ne fynde you not replete of humors hotte, For yf yt doe, &c.

  40. The best forms, or those nerves most sensitive to light, connected with incipient membranes and humors for corneas and lenses, are picked out and preserved by natural selection, of necessity.

  41. He has at length got over that stage of the complaint, and is now in the fever of belief, perchance to be succeeded by the sweating stage, during which sundry peccant humors may be eliminated from the system.

  42. Borroughcliffe died in three days; and was carried back and interred by the side of his friend, in the very hut which had so often resounded with their humors and festivities.

  43. Loud laughter was echoed from boat to boat, as they glided by each other; and rude jests, interlarded with quaint humors and strange oaths, were freely bandied from mouth to mouth.

  44. The negroes, who had been submitting to his humors with the abject humility of slavery, now gave certain low intimations that they were suffering pain, under the rough manipulation of their tormentor.

  45. She cared for me once, I'm certain of that, but I tormented her so with my humors that I let my chances slip, and now she won't risk marrying me.

  46. With all his odd humors and obstinate prejudices, he is a sterling-hearted old blade.

  47. For he that turneth the humors back, and maketh the wound bleed inwards, endangereth malign ulcers, and pernicious imposthumations.

  48. As for discontentments, they are, in the politic body, like to humors in the natural, which are apt to gather a preternatural heat, and to inflame.

  49. Fevers recurring every fifth, sixth, eighth or more days, you never find whenever heavy humors are wanting.

  50. Fevers occurring every fourth day are cured easily by suddenly startling the unprepared patients, and by means of herbs producing effects opposite to the humors of this fever.

  51. When we made our appearance, the flure was instantly cleared for us, and then she and I danced the Humors of Glin.

  52. Footnote 179: Their opposite humors are admirably developed in the dialogues of act ii.

  53. Thus the Negromante presents a really fine comic web of humors at cross purposes and appetites that overreach themselves.

  54. Aretino congregated round him a whole class of literary Bohemians, drawing forth the peccant humors of more than one Italian city, and locating these greedy adventurers in Venice as his satellites.

  55. All who were present felt the discomfort of the Prince's speech, It was evident that one of his mad, wild humors was upon him.

  56. That is all the food thou shalt have, and we will see if that fare will not cool thy hot humors withal.

  57. He was the only one of the Council whose character and authority seem to have been generally respected, the only one who could restore any sort of harmony and curb the factious humors of the other leaders.

  58. My mynde never swelled with such ympossible mountebank humors as could make me affect any other kingdome than the kingdom of heaven.

  59. The war of the pen preceded that of the sword, and daily sharpened the humors of the opposite parties.

  60. The minds of men in both states were every day more irritated against each other; and it was not long before these humors broke forth into action.

  61. What alone gave some stability to all these unsettled humors was the great influence, both civil and military, acquired by Oliver Cromwell.

  62. All these distracted councils and contrary humors checked the progress of Ormond, and enabled the parliamentary forces in Ireland to maintain their ground against him.

  63. After Strafford fell a victim to popular rage, the humors excited in Ireland by that great event could not suddenly be composed, but continued to produce the greatest innovations in the government.

  64. He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse, which, in his merry humors he tells us, has been in and out twelve times since he first wore it.


  65. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "humors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.