For when the sensorial power has been diminished by great exertion, and the stomach has become less irritable by having been previously stimulated by much heat, it sooner becomes quiescent by the application of cold.
In all cases it was the transference of motion from the aether to the comparatively quiescentmolecules of the gas or vapour that occupied our thoughts.
He affirmed motion to be an inherent attribute of matter--that no portion of matter was at rest, and that even the most quiescent solids were animated by a motion of their ultimate particles.
They did not have the volition to help themselves, childlike as the men of the stone age, they awaited quiescent what the next hour might bring them.
An eruption of short duration, of which we have no details, occurred in 1447; and after this Ætna was quiescent for eighty-nine years.
That which continued to be the outer surface was the part which from time to time touched quiescent masses and occasionally received the collisions consequent on its own motions or the motions of other things.
A slight rise of temperature in the evening may be induced in quiescent joint lesions by injury or by movement of the joint under anæsthesia, or by the fatigue of a railway journey.
Many surgeons advise that so long as the abscess is quiescent it should be left alone.
While the swelling often remains quiescent for some time, it tends to increase in size, to become boggy or fluctuating, and to assume the characters of a cold abscess.
In the quiescent stage the lesion is represented by a small cavity in the bone, filled with clear serum, and lined by a fibrous membrane which is engaged in forming bone.
Under the form of the emblematic bull the generative energy was represented breaking the quiescent egg.
The animal ought immediately to be started for a scamper, and never allowed to remain quiescent until its activity has driven every trace of moisture from its body.
The relief should be directed wholly to keep the cancer, for such it is, in a passive or quiescent state.
There are other minds which, partly by nature and partly by culture, have been led to dislike a quiescentacceptance of the unintelligible; and which push their explorations until causation has been carried to its confines.
The egg-cells and sperm-cells cannot be very quiescent since they do so much when they unite.
This quiescent form is assumed by the bacterium if its supply of food is exhausted; if fresh food is added, the multiplication by cleavage begins again.
It was during the dull and quiescent days following the alleviatingly active weeks of the lecture tour.
Even in so acute a process as toothache it is possible to mistake the particular tooth that is giving trouble, and, as dentists know, a perfectly quiescent tooth is sometimes blamed for pain that is coming from another.
Indeed, I doubt if there is any process in which the mind is more quiescent than in reading without interest.
Suppose you use brain-cells that have hitherto been quiescent or undeveloped.
The quiescent prominences resemble closely the stratus and cirrus type of terrestrial clouds, and are frequently of enormous extent along the sun's edge.
Classification of the prominences divides them into two broad types, the quiescent and the eruptive.
If only we could persuade ourselves to remain quiescent when we are happy!
Only two birds I considered would be likely to squat and remain quiescent like this--partridge or pheasant; but I could not contrive to view the least portion of the neck.
A peaceful and quiescent rest would calm the angry feelings and boiling passions of men, daily lashed to a foaming fury by the unnecessary and often erroneous expressed opinions of others.
It would be a messenger of peace inviting the weary pilgrims of bondage in every clime to a reposing asylum of peaceful, quiescent rest.
I should say this island has been quiescent for hundreds of years before it burst out into eruption, and sent up this great pile of rock and ashes.
In this case again the quiescent and active states are both determined by utility; when this calls, there is activity; when it does not, there is rest.
Yet she was excessively vital, but it was a smouldering, restrained vitality suggestive of a quiescent crater.
Quiescent trade affords no new securities in which the new saving can be invested, and therefore there comes soon to be an excess of loanable capital.
For a while, instead of discounting for brokers and strangers, we allowed our bills to mature, and remained quiescent with a view to enable us to meet any demand that might be made on ourselves.
The inference that if quiescent bodies do not act in particular ways they are inert, and cannot act in any kind of a way, is a wrong inference.
But quiescent groups have not generally this ample longitudinal range.
Ishmael sat very still, his mind as quiescent as his body; it was as though it had been hypnotised by its steady concentration on her approaching death as by the steady keeping of the eyes fixed on some one glittering object.
He stood watching a moment while the man harnessed the horses to the big drill, which, standing quiescent now, was soon to rattle and clank over the ploughed and harrowed earth of the four-acre field.
Nature has provided that a great blow shall always stun for a time; sensation stays quiescent as long as there still remains something to be done; it is in the lonely hours after all action is over that pain makes itself felt.
