Night hovered over the ocean, rendered horrible by the intermitting blaze of lightnings, the awful crash of thunder, and the deafening roar of winds and waves.
They move perhaps necessarily per saltum, by, intermitting spasms, and pulsations of unequal energy.
It defeats the steady habit of exertion, but it creates spasms of irregular exertion; it ruins the natural power of life, but it develops preternatural paroxysms of intermitting power.
Some little scalding of urine; flow not so free and full, intermitting slightly, as if I had some calculus in the bladder which interfered with continuous flow.
Drawing and cutting pains from one iliac crest to the other as if a knife had traversed the abdomen; often intermitting and always returning.
Wind is most properly defined to be the Stream or Current of the Air, and where such a Current is perpetual and fixt in its Course, 'tis necessary that it proceed from a permanent un-intermitting Cause.
At that period the pump windlass had not superseded the intermitting efforts of the old handspike.
The water is black and heavy, and subject tointermitting storms.
We were called upon for advice in the case of the Osage prisoners, a young woman and three children labouring under an attack of intermitting fever.
Intermitting fevers are of such universal occurrence in every part of the newly-settled country to the west, that every person is well acquainted with the symptoms, and has some favourite method of treatment.
The repeated announcement falls on your ear like the intermittingdischarge of artillery.
Westminster Hospital, had suffered for twelve months from an irregularly intermitting but very severe neuralgia at the level of the seventh intercostal space of the left side.
But it happens, sometimes that a distinctly intermitting neuralgia occurs as an early symptom of phthisis; in fact, where there is a predisposition to neurotic affections, I believe that this is not very uncommon.
David had an intermitting pulse; Peter had an intermitting pulse, as also many other of the saints of God.
This fear of God also is sometimes like this intermitting pulse; there are times when it forbears to work, and then it works again.
The chief mate's complaint terminating in an intermitting fever, I prevailed on him to lie under the tent; and by a plentiful administration of bark and port wine, he became able to keep a day watch.
A perpetual stretching of the joints followed, as though the body had been upon the rack, while acute pains shot through the limbs, only sufficiently intermitting to give place to a sensation of nerveless helplessness.
The intermitting pulse, the great disturbance from change of posture, and the swelled legs induced me to conclude that the exacerbation of his old complaint was occasioned by serous effusion.
The intermitting pulse should seem to have been owing to effusions of water in some of the cavities of the breast, as it disappeared on the removal of the waters.
The intermitting pulse, and pain in the arms, sufficiently distinguish this disease from asthma, and from anasarcous lungs.
Ask Stein what are the average runs at rouge-et-noir, what are the signs of an intermitting game, and what are the longest runs he remembers on one color?
David had an intermitting pulse, Peter had an intermitting pulse, as also many other of the saints of God.
There was no light, except what came from the sullen and intermitting gleams of the fire.
Something, it is here contended, may be urged, in favour of the existence of such facets--of such intermitting conditions of stable equilibrium.
