Then he knelt on the cold floor and fervently prayed to God for strength, for he felt that he was indeed wrestling with the devil.
Well, all these things are mere details, but how people can get married and bring up a family when they have not enough for themselves while they are bachelors, is a riddle to me.
He himself tells us that opinions are but the reflection of a man's experiences, changing as his experiences change.
How many long hours were wasted in the vain attempt to divide an angle into three equal sections, a thing which can be done so easily in a minute in an unscientific (that is to say practical) way by using a graduator.
One might compare the boy's character to an ill-proportioned compensation pendulum; it contained too much of the soft metal of the mother, not enough of the hard metal of the father.
However anxious he might be to get married, the laws of society which are made by the upper classes and protected by bayonets, would prevent him.
Then he hangs up his overcoat on its special hook, the one to the right of the fireplace.
He allowed the garden with its many splendours to become a wilderness, and finally let it to a gardener on condition that he and his children should be allowed certain privileges.
The boy must see something of life, or he'll go wrong.
A delicious warmth ran through his limbs, a thin, warm veil fell over his eyes, he felt ravenous like a starving beast.
I don't think so," replied the bookseller, conscious of his temporary importance and selling his wares one by one.
He looked in vain for a friend, for a companion, like-minded, dressed as he was.
The caretaker can do my room when I have gone out.
People who have had ptomaine poisoning sometimes assert that they are afterwards susceptible to poisoning by the kind of food which first made them ill.
I, myself, have had ptomaine poisoning from canned salmon, but I have never since had any trouble about eating salmon.
The solution in weak acid is added to a dilute mixture of ferric chloride and potassium ferricyanide: the latter, if a ptomaine be present, is reduced to ferrocyanide, and Prussian blue is thereby precipitated.
Margery was very ill by this time and the doctor said she had symptoms of ptomaine poisoning.
Margery was very weak when she woke up and still unable to eat anything, and I believe she had a touch of sunstroke along with her ptomaine poisoning.
Defn: A ptomaine discovered by Vaughan in putrid cheese and other dairy products, and producing symptoms similar to cholera infantum.
Defn: An animal base or alkaloid, appearing in the tissue during life; hence, a vital alkaloid, as distinguished from a ptomaine or cadaveric poison.
Probably severe ptomaine poisoning, and the ship’s doctor was quickly sent for.
The poor victim of ptomaine poisoning lay in a huddled heap, moaning softly, and with nothing to be seen of him but a crop of hair.
She said that the police came to our house, and Sir Joseph tried to kill one of them and killed his own wife and then was shot by an officer and that they gave out the story that Sir Joseph and Lady Webling died of ptomaine poisoning.
It was in all the papers--about their dying on the same night, from--from ptomaine poisoning.
So they agreed to let it be known that they died peacefully or rather painfully in their beds, of ptomaine poisoning.
Although cases of ptomaine poisoning are more frequently met with in the human subject, there is a possibility of the occurrence of such in the dog.
This is the essential point and will prevent ptomaine poisoning.
The symptoms usually present in those suffering from ptomaine poisoning are nausea, vomiting, dizziness, pain more or less violent in character, and prostration which is at times alarming.
Certain violent attacks of so-called ptomaine poisoning may be traced to chicken salad which has been allowed to stand overnight in tin receptacles or to ice cream which has melted and been re-frozen.
In ptomaine poisoning the tissue waste may be great, but it is the result of the poisoning, as is the fever, so that the diet needs to be adjusted only after the disturbance has abated.
Canned meat and fish have produced the most violent types of ptomaine poisoning.
There was a most extensive outbreak of ptomaine poisoning on one ship, and measles, bronchitis, and pneumonia were much in evidence.
By reason of the lack of cold storage and the high temperature, rotten food was not uncommon, and caused outbreaks of incapacitating diarrhoea and ptomaine poisoning.
There was a certain amount of illness apart from ptomaine poisoning, and amongst the cases treated were bronchitis, influenza, tonsillitis, and eye disease.
In consequence an outbreak of ptomaine poisoning took place, and twenty-two officers and others were infected, two of them seriously.
This leads us to ask if we may not preserve food in ways other than those mentioned so as to protect ourselves from danger of ptomaine poisoning.
Frequently ptomaine poisoning occurs in the summer time because of the rapid growth of bacteria.
Ptomaine poisoning's a pretty bad thing," said Joe, looking at them rather quizzically.
Look here, Jackwell," he went on sharply, "are you trying to pull some of that ptomaine poisoning stuff again?
Nakata was still sick, and to cap matters he got a second dose of ptomaine poisoning.
One night, while it was his watch on deck, he got hold of a tin of salmon which gave him ptomaine poisoning.
The minority report of the American Pediatric Society states that "scurvy appears to be a chronic ptomaine poisoning due to the absorption of toxins.
It is evident, therefore, that in the scurvy of infants as well as of guinea-pigs there is no overgrowth of putrefactive bacteria in the intestinal tract, and therefore no basis for the hypothesis of ptomaine or similar intoxication.
This often resembles ptomaine poisoning, which is caused, not by micro-organisms themselves, but by the poisonous products which they elaborate from materials on which they grow.
As far as danger of disease or ptomaine poison is concerned, chances between the two methods seem to offer little choice.
The symptoms of ptomaine poisoning are characteristic and generally easily traced to the material producing them.
The treatment is similar to that of ptomaine poisoning.
He did not think their dogs on that journey had scurvy, but ptomaine poisoning from fish which had travelled through the tropics.
Their worst difficulties were scurvy[29] and ptomaine poisoning, for which the enforced diet was responsible.
Merida’s doctor, ‘there’s a man awful sick with ptomaine poisoning.
Captain McGray of the ship was seized with a bad attack of ptomaine poisoning.
Toxic ptomaine bases have been found in the urines of a large number of diseases.
In the solution there occurs a ptomaine, which has been isolated by Brieger, and which gives rise to almost all the phenomena of typhoid fever; this ptomaine is called typhotoxin.
A ptomaine is not necessarily poisonous; many are known which are, in moderate doses, quite innocuous.
A ptomaine may be considered as a basic chemical substance derived from the action of bacteria on nitrogenous substances.
If this definition is accepted, a ptomaine is not necessarily formed in the dead animal tissue; it may be produced by the living, and, in all cases, it is the product of bacterial life.
Farther research has conclusively shown that at present no ptomaine is known which so closely resembles a vegetable poison as to be likely in skilled hands to cause confusion.
It must be remembered that the ptomaine poisoning that is sometimes caused by eating canned foods is not due to the fact that the foods come in tin cans, but that they are allowed to stand in the cans after they are opened.
Ptomaine poisoning from oysters was caused by eating them when they had been improperly cared for in storage or had been taken from the shells after they were dead.
Much illness has been attributed to oysters, and without doubt they have been the cause of some typhoid and some ptomaine poisoning.
From decomposed meat and fish we get ptomaine poisoning.
After leaving Denver for New Orleans, I came within a whisker of dying of ptomaine poisoning.
I had discovered that many patrons of a certain restaurant--the one which I had so heartily greeted upon my arrival--had also suffered from ptomaine poisoning.
The consequences I suffered were those of ptomaine poisoning.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ptomaine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
