154 examples of blood-vessel in sentences

The agitation thus originated ended in the rupture of a blood-vessel in the lungs; a rapid consumption ensued; and the succeeding acknowledgments, from more candid critics, of the true greatness of his powers, were ineffectual to heal the wound thus wantonly inflicted.

Whether the mortification felt by Keats at the critique was small (as is now generally opined) or great (as Shelley thought), it cannot reasonably be propounded that this caused, or resulted in, the rupture of the pulmonary blood-vessel.

" The decay of her bodily powers was hastened by the breaking of a blood-vessel in November, 1790.

For whether it was the sudden fright that overset him, or whether it was the strain of passion that burst some blood-vessel upon his brain, it is certain that when the pirates quitted the Belle Helen, carrying with them the young lady and Barnaby and the travelling-trunks, they left Sir John Malyoe lying in a fit upon the floor, frothing at the mouth and black in the face, as though he had been choked.

I've sent for Scaddam, so he'll be on the scene in case of emergencies" "You mean, if I break a blood-vessel?" inquired Vernon, politely.

The escape of blood from a ruptured blood-vessel into the substance of the brain.

It had not been opened for over forty years, since Gerald Mohune, who burst a blood-vessel drinking at Weymouth races, was buried there; but there was a tale that one Sunday afternoon, many years back, there had come from the vault so horrible and unearthly a cry, that parson and people got up and fled from the church, and would not worship there for weeks afterwards.

Others say that he broke a blood-vessel when in a rage.

Sir Murtagh, in his passion, had broken a blood-vessel.

You do not understand what it is to rupture a blood-vessel.

Sabre wounds are not very common, but there was one in the Vienna hospital that morninga V-shaped trench in which you could have laid four fingers fiat, down through the hair and into the back of the man's neck, so close to the big blood-vessel that you could see it beat under its film of tissuethe only thing between him and death.

The Skins of the Forehead were extremely tough and thick, and, what very much surprized us, had not in them any single Blood-Vessel that we were able to discover, either with or without our Glasses; from whence we concluded, that the Party when alive must have been entirely deprived of the Faculty of Blushing.

A physician was brought in, who declared he had ruptured a minor blood-vessel, and would not let him utter a whisper, and, assisted by Mr. Bates, placed him in his carriage, and the three were driven as swiftly as possible to the hotel where Clarence was staying.

"If they get any more AEpyornises, he reckons some scientific swell will go and burst a blood-vessel.

His autobiography of this period is extremely interesting:"My indisposition arose in part at least, from my having broken a blood-vessel; and motion and speech were for a long time pronounced positively dangerous.

" The next year Miss Barrett, never robust, broke a blood-vessel in the lungs.

With the utmost alacrity he helped in the unpacking, nearly bursting a blood-vessel as he tugged at the heaviest end, and then running to the village with all his speed, to borrow Mrs. Crandall's piano key, which, fortunately, fitted Ethelyn's, so that Melinda Jones was soon seated in state, and running her fingers over the superb five-hundred dollar instrument, Ethelyn's gift from Aunt Barbara on her nineteenth birthday.

He had but a few weeks recovered from the fever of which he spoke in his letter to the Archbishop, when he again broke a blood-vessel in his lungs.

"Mind you don't bust a blood-vessel, Sam."

I was afraid he'd bust a blood-vessel in one of them fits, so I quit.

" He turned to the widow and began to chat about "his people" again to divert her attention from Mr. Burton, who seemed likely to cause unpleasantness by either bursting a blood-vessel or falling into a fit.

Tou Tou, indeed, adduces a gloomy case of a young man, who spent two years and a half in dumb longing, and broke a blood-vessel and died at the end of them; but this is so discouraging an anecdote, that we all poo-poohed it as unauthentic.

One day, when hunting, he was thrown from his horse, and ruptured a blood-vessel.

"She broke a blood-vessel a month ago in Boston.

If he should break a blood-vessel do not take any notice unless some part of his fallen body is likely to obstruct your stone.

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