The picture of muscular irradiation presented under these circumstances differs but slightly from that of the onset of detumescence.
With the onset of muscular action, which is mainly involuntary, even when it affects the voluntary muscles, detumescence proper begins to take place.
The line of infantry, the consul himself, and the whole onset of the battle was borne toward the camp, and having taken it with considerable slaughter, he got possession of still more considerable booty.
At the very first onset the enemy was routed; the fugitives were harassed in the rear, as far as the infantry were able to follow them: the cavalry drove then in consternation up to their camp.
The infantry at the first onset have made the enemy give way; now that they have given way, do you give reins to your horses and drive them from the field.
Sir," saith Hugh, "ward and surety against theonset of the foe.
So began his war, and in this firstonset he slew more than a hundred.
Attila drew up his mighty hosts upon the plain of Chalons, in the north of Gaul, and there awaited the onset of the Romans and their allies.
The Barbarian allies of Cyrus were scattered at the first onset of the enemy; but the Greeks stood like a rampart of rock.
Before the terribleonset of the fanatic Roundheads the Scots were scattered like chaff before the wind (1650).
The Romans were driven from the field by the fierce onset of the Numidian horsemen.
The onset was terrible, and the slaughter so great, that the Earls of Huntly and Menteith retreated in confusion upon the main body, commanded by the king, and threw it into an alarm from which it did not recover.
The pulse from the onset was comparatively frequent, regular and somewhat tense.
They sat at their tent door, with their rifles within reach, listening to the distant roaring, and awaiting with a nervous impatience the onset of the terrible beasts.
Thinking it might be a lion or hyena attracted by the scent of the game, he sprang up, grasping his rifle, only to be thrown on to his back by the onset of near a score of yelling savages.
They dragged him out of the melee, and, their fury redoubled, returned to make a combined onset on the labourers.
Your Olympus will prove but a molehill when the earth shakes with the onset of the millions on whose necks you have sat all these ages.
The interval between the end of the treatment and the onset of the disease being less than fourteen days, Morin must not be counted in the number of patients inoculated under conditions which permit successful inoculation.
As the disease had itsonset during the course of the inoculations, this case should be excluded from the number of those who died of rabies after treatment.
The average interval between inoculation and the onset of enteric fever in these 19 cases was thirty-eight weeks.
One great battle, however, was fought, in which the British king Natanleod was slain; the two armies met at Churdfrid, and in the onset the islanders appear to have had the advantage.
If the enemy succeeded in checking the onset of the pikemen, it was their duty to pass between the front ranks, which opened out to give them egress, and throw themselves into the fray.
When he had come up with the raiders they would turn and offer him battle: nor was theironset to be despised.
When such a body was attacked, the men faced outwards to receive the onset of the horsemen; this they called 'forming the hedgehog[83].
The victories of the Swiss set every officer of capacity and versatile talent searching for an efficient way of dealing with the onset of the phalanx.
The onset of the German horseman being the chief thing which the Hussites had to dread, the battle was half won when a method of resisting it had been devised.
In a similar way the victory of Courtrai was secured, not by the mallets and iron-shod staves of the Flemings, but by the canal, into which the headlong onset of the French cavalry thrust rank after rank of their companions.
The sun went down in a flood of golden glory behind the purple heights of Geraneia, and as the mists of evening fell upon the land, the warriors of Minos made ready for the onset on the morrow.
With a mighty shout the Cretan warriors went forth to the onset as the fiery horses of Helios rose up with his chariot into the kindled heaven.
Sidenote: Patch for Trowsers] An onset patch may be used for the seats of trousers by shaping the patch like the pieces on the seats of bicycle trousers and stitching on the machine.
When the British fell back before the German onset Thompson remained in the trenches long enough to get pictures of the charging Germans.
They did not rush on fiercely to the fight, nor make a brilliant onset like the Moorish and Spanish troops, but they went into the fight deliberately and persisted obstinately and were slow to find out when they were beaten.
The marques de Villena, with his brother, Don Alonso de Pacheco, at the first onset of the Moors spurred into the hottest of the fight.
The marques was in his tent, about a bow-shot distant, when he heard the tumult of the onset and beheld his men dying in confusion.
At the fourth onsetfew of the Franks could fight more, for thirst had conquered them on this waterless hill of Hattin.
But the fury of his onset threw him clean upon the Burgomaster, who, letting his sword fall, but cleaving valorously to the ham, flung his arms about the Spaniard's neck and brought him heavily to the ground.
Then with these four and four others, Raoul remaining in the hall, we ran swiftly down the passage to the guard-room, burst open the door, and by the vehemency of our onset overthrew the soldiers there in marvellous brief time.
Expecting a vehement onset upon the door, I ran down and posted myself with Stubbs and two or three more at the foot of the stairway.
Little by little the vehemency of their onsetdrove us back from one step to another.
The swiftness of our onset took the Spaniards all aback.
It is entirely unsafe to predict the result, some apparently mild attacks going on to speedy death, while others that at the onset appear to be very severe yielding rapidly to treatment.
There is no history of a definite onset of the disease, and the condition is progressive, usually with a number of relapses.
Following the injection of the infectious principle there is a period of incubation which may extend from ten days to one and one-half months, at the end of which time the onset of the disease is manifested by a rise of temperature.
At the onset of the disease treatment consists in entire extirpation of the nodules, in case the lesions are localized.
The appetite is lost to a greater or less extent, but the desire for water is increased, particularly during the onset of the fever.
In all cases of encephalitis there is a marked rise in temperature from the very onset of the disease, with a tendency to increase until the most alarming symptoms develop, succeeded by a decrease when coma becomes manifest.
The foal rarely survives four hours after the onset of parturient throes.
Examinations of the chest should be made every day, so as to detect the disease at its onset and render proper aid.
In fine, there was a long preparation for the great onsetof the barbarian peoples in the fifth century.
So simultaneous was the onset that it resembled a sudden charge of cavalry, and the ground vibrated beneath their heavy hoofs.
I now had a charge in my gun, which I knew if reserved till he was within a foot of the muzzle would certainly floor him, and I awaited his onset with comparative carelessness, still keeping my eyes opposed to his gaze.
Now Alencon had built a bridge across the Seine above Paris, expecting to make an onset upon the south as well as the north of the city, and Jeanne and he decided secretly to make a new effort in that direction.
The line of the Samnites stood firm against the furious onset of the squadrons; it neither could be driven from its ground, nor broken in any part.
At the first onset the Roman power was so superior, that they not only conquered the enemy in the regular battle, but pursued them when driven back quite into their camp, and soon after also assaulted it.
There was now but a small interval between the two armies, and both stood, waiting until the shout and onset should be begun by their adversary.
Accordingly, there was no great resistance made: the first shout and onset determined the business.
This last, a strong and vigorous man, was dead within thirty-two hours of the first onset of his illness.
First the little daughter of the young couple died, then all the members of the family were seized by illness, its onset being on the day following the death of the child.
