There have undoubtedly been great eruptions not preceded by small central eruptions, but these also had their period of preparation or precursory signs.
Fixation ofPrecursory Sexual Aims *The Appearance of New Intentions.
A great golden eagle came from his nest on the summit of the rock, soaring high above us, while a crowd of grey vultures hovered around with a persistency which seemed precursory of death.
The moon no longer shed her light; an intense darkness had fallen--that darkness which is invariably precursory of the sandstorm.
I stood agape, staring at it with wide-open, wondering eyes, convinced that its discovery wasprecursory of revelations startling and undreamed of.
Wycherley, waxing impatient at their abominable obtuseness, "it is the premonitory stage of the precursory condition of an organic affection of the brain.
The more regular the firstprecursory pains are, the more symmetrical and uniform will be the shape of the uterus; and again, on the other hand, the more uniform its shape, the more regularly and effectively will it act.
All these precursory changes are so many preparations of nature for a natural labour, and contribute not a little to the successful termination of the case, advantages which cannot be enjoyed where the membranes have been previously ruptured.
The night was moonless, but brilliant for October, yet the atmosphere was of that artificial clearness which in London renders the street-lamps unusually bright, and is always precursory of rain.
The atmosphere outside is breathless, the evening overcast and oppressive, precursory to a storm.
The sun sank with a misty, angry afterglow precursory of rain, and by the time the big clock in the tower of the Royal Exchange showed half-past seven the scene in the main streets was already an animated one.
The sunset was a red, dusky one, and over London westward there spread a blood-red light, as though precursory to the awful catastrophe that was about to fall.
With respect to the general causes, tending to produce that congestive state of the brain, precursory to its inflammation, he remarks, that they are of three kinds; 1st.
Next we may inquire, what control, salutary or otherwise, we can exercise over the skin in reference to its eruption, by adopting certain methods in medicine and hygeine, during the period of invasion or of precursory fever.
The precursory symptoms were rigors followed by heat, heaviness of the limbs, pains in the joints, especially in the evening, sense of tension in the region of the lower jaw, and sometimes a difficulty in mastication.
This much we know, that there is no correspondence in general between the intensity of the precursory fever, and the copiousness of the after eruption.
It is, indeed, so great that most men will hesitate to accept a thesis which carries us straight into the inmost sanctuary of mysticism; which preaches "a precursoryentrance into the most holy place, as by divine transportation.
And is not this a fresh instalment, or a precursory adumbration, of that Truth into which the Paraclete should lead?
Precursory emergence into completer personality; ecstasy with perception of spiritual world.
On the 23d of October I passed a calculus of the size of a pea, without vomiting; there were no other precursory symptoms except the uncomfortable feeling in the region of the kidney a few days previous.
The night was dark and overcast, a gusty wind had sprung up precursory of rain, and in our ears sounded the hum of the telegraph wires.
So puzzled was I to account for the strange phenomena, and the fact that the curious marks upon my wrist still remained, that I began to fear that the periodical fits of passion and despair were precursory of madness.
The moon was fast disappearing, and I was calmly watching for the steely-grey light which in the desert is precursory of dawn, when suddenly I heard a footstep.
In many instances, although it is far from being general, pain of the head, and throbbing of its arteries precede an attack of insanity; sometimes giddiness is complained of as a precursory symptom.
One of the precursory symptoms of consumption is the feeble murmur of respiration in the upper part of the lungs.
What is one of the precursory symptoms of consumption?
Following or along with precursory symptoms denoting general systemic disturbance, or independently of any prodromal indications, a hyperæsthetic condition, in localized areas or more or less general, is observed.
With or without precursory symptoms of systemic disturbance, irregularly scattered blebs, few or in numbers, make their appearance, arising from erythematous spots or from apparently normal skin.
Pigmentation, of a yellowish or brownish color, is often a precursory and accompanying symptom.
In severe cases, malaise and pyrexia may precede the eruption, but usually it appears without any precursory or constitutional symptoms.
The night was dark, the sky overcast, and there was in the air that oppressive sultry stillness precursory of a storm.
The precursory symptoms are soon followed by partial suppuration, and extensive sloughing of the cellular tissue.
The precursory symptoms are often not particularly attended to; these are rigors and pain of the loins.
As has been mentioned before, it does not as a rule attend the precursory symptoms.
The mental activity suffers premature derangements, such as have been fully mentioned in the description of the precursory symptoms.
Scrofula is only too often a precursory stage of tuberculosis.
The rosy flush of dawn had been superseded by the saffron tints that are precursory of the sun's appearance when we moved forward again on our cautious march.
The courtesy of the Conservative reformers had no result except disquieting the Government, a sort of precursory sign of the tempest.
Immediately after the ministerial success in the general elections of 1846, this precursory indication of storms appeared on the horizon.
