It is such a subtile and insinuating poison that it spreads universally, and infects the most precious ointments of the soul, and, as it were, poisons the very antidote and counterpoison.
And truly this poison is so strong and pestilent, that having once entered into the body, it spreads through all the members, it infects all the posterity that were in Adam’s loins.
But his unnamed striving, which is expressed by his terror in the presence of solitude, is so sincere that it infects us and draws us more powerfully than many, very many sermons of love, which are enunciated with the lips alone.
If left to itself, the softened tubercle erupts through the capsule of the gland and infects the cellular tissue.
After the tuberculous granulation tissue erupts through the cortex of the bone, it gives rise to a cold abscess or infects adjacent joints or tendon sheaths.
In its own powerful interest property perpetuates these down the ages, and infects the fresh air of each new generation with their temper.
If sin thus disfigures the body, we know that sin also infects the body.
Man not only governs Nature; he infectsand informs her.
Poland lies like a sick man in our midst, whose dying breathinfects the land.
I tell you, mother, that I will die, if you send me to the fearful place where Josepha's corpse infects the air with its death-mould.
He will not suffer us to burn their bones, To urne their ashes, nor to take th' offence Of mortal loathsomness from the blest eye Of holy Phoebus, but infects the winds With stench of our slain Lords.
Please her appetite And do it home, it cures her ipso facto, The melancholly humor thatinfects her.
He is a poisoned perfume that infects the brain and murders those it pleases.
He infects all society, as thunder sours wine: war or peace, dearth or plenty, makes him equally discontented.
On the other hand, the Baganda believe that a barren wife infects her husband's garden with her own sterility and prevents the trees from bearing fruit; hence a childless woman is generally divorced.
He infects trees or plants with qualities or accidents, good or bad, resembling and derived from his own.
And the rhythm of step and time infects the whole crowd.
The martial strain infects the excited streets, trumpets back from a wall of houses, stirs the blood so joyously, and exorcises the spectres of the night from your brain.
At a later date he marries, and as previously explained, he infects his wife.
Please her appetite, And doe it home; it cures her, ipso facto, The mellencholly humour that infects her.
He will not suffer us to burne their bones, To urne their ashes, nor to take th' offence Of mortall loathsomenes from the blest eye Of holy Phoebus, but infects the windes With stench of our slaine Lords.
The disease is original sin, which through ignorance infects the mind, and through concupiscence infects the flesh.
The result is that political ambition infects our country and generates a feverish restlessness and discontent, which to the monarchist may seem more than a balance for our forms of liberty.
The brood appear to die in the cells, after they are sealed over by the bees, and the stench from their decaying bodies infects the hive, and seems to paralyze the bees.
The gonococcus remains virulent for two or three years at the least in a man's chronic gleet, and if he marries he infects his wife.
He claims that gonorrhœa in the male is in the majority of instances incurable; although it may be apparently cured, it continues as a latent affection which regularly infects his female companion.
This phrase means a gonorrhœa in the male apparently cured, which even two years after the supposed cure infects a healthy vagina, causing a discharge and a complication of the uterine mucous membrane.
To put it redundantly, then, I have sketched in my poem a man in the subway, with influenza, whichinfects others in his vicinity.
Sadness is a sickness--a physical disorganisation that infects the mind.
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