Repeated shocks opened gaping crevices in the ground, swallowing houses and closing over man and brute.
There is just as definite Swallowing Sense and Expectorating Sense as there is Taste Sense.
Masticate all solid food until it is completely liquefied and excites in an irresistible manner the swallowing reflex or swallowing impulse.
It is possible so to sensitize the muscles which control swallowing that they will refuse to act and will cause choking if an attempt to swallow prematurely is made.
This valuable gift had been acquired by Mr. Escrocevitch in his early years, when he used to wander among the Polish fairs, swallowing burning flax for the delectation of the public and disgorging endless yards of ribbon and paper.
Ten minutes later he was sitting on a stool, carefully nibbling a lump of sugar, and swallowing the scalding tea.
Somewhat frugal as regards diet, especially breakfast, but with astounding capacities for swallowing table d'hote dinners or such romance as the guides might be pleased to invent on the subject of their own prowess and exploits.
Yes, my child, yes," said Buvat, swallowing his sobs.
Hence by our attention to the fauces from our desire not to swallow our saliva; the fauces become more sensible; and the stimulus of the saliva is followed by greater sensation, and consequent desire of swallowing it.
The inspiration of air into the lungs is so totally different from that of swallowing a fluid in which we are immersed, that it cannot be acquired before our nativity.
Over the same period that the sample of scats was collected, a much smaller food sample of 73 prey items was collected by squeezing recently eaten food from the racers' stomachs, or by finding the snakes actually swallowing their prey.
The voles being diurnal, and having habitat preferences similar to those of the racer, are especially subject to attack, but only large adult racers are capable of swallowing a full grown vole.
Nevertheless, swallowing was completed, with the snake eaten pressed in a series of curves.
Swallowing toads is here figuratively meant forswallowing or putting up with insults, as disagreeable to a person of feeling as toads to the stomach.
In the use of the quid, or cud, accidents sometimes happen from swallowing portions, which must needs be very hurtful.
Chewers are often taken by surprise, and rather than be detected in the unclean practice, they will, with Spartan fortitude, endure the horrible agonies of swallowing the juice, and sometimes even the quid itself.
Jem, swallowing his secret with great difficulty, and then tumbling head over heels four times running.
His mother first swallowed his head and then was swallowing his tail.
And desirous of saving her son, the sea-snake rose (up from the earth) while still employed in swallowing her son's tail.
It was then that his mother, the daughter of a snake, determined to save him by swallowing him first.
Are we not for ever swallowing lies a thousand times more hurtful than the old pleasing or idle fancies?
Perhaps the loss of the basipterygoid articulation reflects the development of a more efficient mechanism for swallowing prey in these fishes.
The changes in endocranial structure appear to be significant, and are perhaps related to higher efficiency of the mouth parts in catching and swallowing prey (see p.
In viewing the changes in the endocranium of Carboniferous and Permian coelacanths, it would be well to consider the mechanical relationship of the loss of the basipterygoid processes to the effect on swallowing prey.
Do your worst," said he, swallowing the lump in his throat.
A young lady residing at Port Elizabeth probably felt a shock when she found on an envelope from "home," a gentlemanly but gluttonous cannibal making a small lunch out of a venturesome white man, whom he is swallowing at a single bite.
A Native Swallowing a Settler" is the comforting inscription on it.
Jimmy poured out a good stiff glass and persisted in swallowing it raw.
Almost in the same second, at one world-swallowing stride, the heart of the tornado reached the clearing.
Bob ground his teeth and looked on, while Tom Long was sympathised with and talked to on his way up to the residency, where, after swallowing his wrath, as the middy expressed it, he got leave to go up and see his friend.
A better day--a better hour--a better minute for fishing could not have been chosen by Mr Heron, who is already swallowing a par.
Darkness and light sometimes opposed in sublime contrast--and sometimes the light swallowing up the darkness--or "smoothing its raven down till it smiles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swallowing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: eating; gulp; ingestion; swallow
