Do we say coma or comma

coma 75 occurrences

The game moves very slowly, for both the players and onlookers are in a condition of semi-coma, but the interest which they take in an occasional coup is by no means feigned, and is perhaps natural to people whose daily lives are fraught with little joy.

In severe cases, occurring in unhealthy or scrofulous children, there are, from the first, considerable fever, disturbed sleep, fretfulness, diarrhoea, rolling of the eyes, convulsive startings, laborious breathing, coma, or unnatural sleep, ending, unless the head is quickly relieved, in death.

Whatever may have been the remote cause, the immediate one is some irritation of the nervous system, causing convulsions, or an effusion to the head, inducing coma.

Cold, when applied in excess to the body, drives the blood from the surface to the centre, reduces the pulse, makes the breathing hard and difficult, produces coma, and, if long continued, death.

King lay as he had lain last night; his continued coma was like a profound quiet sleep.

For there is no aspect of brain diseases that cerebral malaria cannot simulate; deep coma or frantic struggling delirium.

Like one in a state of coma, he was not even aware of thought.

The driver bounced up, enheartened at sight of the trunk and the inexperienced, timid girl; but the horse did not stir in its crooked coma.

The coma had assuredly passed, if only for a space.

Physical Insensibility N. insensibility, physical insensibility; obtuseness &c adj.; palsy, paralysis, paraesthesia [Med.], anaesthesia; sleep &c 823; hemiplegia^, motor paralysis; vegetable state; coma.

It is no good speaking to such folk: they cannot be idle, their nature is not generous enough; and they pass those hours in a sort of coma, which are not dedicated to furious moiling in the gold-mill.

In laudem calvi; splendida coma quisque adulter est; allicit aurea coma. 4922.

In laudem calvi; splendida coma quisque adulter est; allicit aurea coma. 4922.

They have arrived at the factory in a complete state of coma, with closed eyes, the pupils turned back in the head, the whole body rigid and cold, the lips pale white, and the tongue firmly locked between the teeth.

Et hoc negat minacis Adriatici Negare litus insulasve Cycladas Rhodumque nobilem horridamque Thraciam Propontida trucemve Ponticum sinum, Ubi iste post phaselus antea fuit Comata silva: nam Cytorio in iugo Loquente saepe sibilum edidit coma.

Meanwhile fiery brandy or sweet champagne would probably be passed around between the steaming glasses of mint-tea which the slaves perpetually refilled; or perhaps the sultry air, the heavy meal, the scent of the garden and the vertiginous repetition of the music would suffice to plunge these sedentary worthies into the delicious coma in which every festive evening in Morocco ends.

He was then taken to the side of the vessel from which his companions were visible, when he immediately exclaimed, with much earnestness, and in a loud voice, "coma negra," and repeated the words several times.

Lastly, when the comet and the sun are diametrically opposite (the earth being between them) the train is hid behind the body of the comet, excepting a little that appears around it in the form of a border of hair, or coma, it is called hairy, and whence the name of comet is derived.

On his return, she suspended her hair in the temple of the war-god, but it was stolen the first night, and Conon of Samos told the king that the winds had carried it to heaven, where it still forms the seven stars near the tail of Leo, called Coma Berenices. Pope, in his Rape of the Lock, has borrowed this fable to account for the lock of hair cut from Belinda's head, the restoration of which the young lady insisted upon.

He grieved for South Carolina, so he went back and took us but ma wanted to coma back.

Isabella had not dared to keep him in her house after he had fallen into that coma.

He was a very stout young man, with well-developed muscles, and having lain for some time in a state of coma, he suddenly became delirious and tried to fight me.

I think we can pull him round if we persevere, but he must not be allowed to sink back into a state of coma.

Till we saw from the hills in a dazzled coma Over the vines that the wind made shiver, Tower on tower, the great city Roma, Palace and temple, and winding river:

And the keen ship sped, and a deadly coma Blotted away from our eyes forever, Tower on tower, the great city Roma, Palace and temple and yellow river.

comma 414 occurrences

" Once more the colonel was checked, but this time the alteration in his face was no more than a comma's pause in a long balanced sentence.

The Greeks, especially in the earliest times, divided their compositions into verses, or such short portions of sentences as we mark by a comma, each verse occupying a line; and the number of these verses is often set down at the beginning or end of a book.

The conditions must be accepted ad hoc to the smallest tittle and comma.

A burst tire was a comma; carburetor trouble a colon; nervous prostration of the sparking-plug a period.

Pa may stand for the definite article, being the first syllable of pazhik; and a comma for the indefinite article.

I imagine that the word personages, or something equivalent, must be understood after worshipful, and that the Doctor ought to have inserted a comma there.

Now the fact is, that this laconic address, of three syllables, is written wrong; being made bad English for want of a comma between the two words.

And, "John, open the door," or, "Boys, stop your noise," admits no comma.

And, "Be grateful, ye children," and, "Be ye grateful children," are, in his view, every way equivalent: the comma in the former being, in his opinion, needless.

Two other examples, exactly like that which is so pointedly censured above, are placed by Murray under his thirteenth rule for the comma; and these likewise, with all faithfulness, are copied by Ingersoll, Smith, Alger, Kirkham, Comly, Russell, and I know not how many more.

"Several nouns or pronouns together in the same case, not united by and, require a comma between each.

It always requires a pause as great as that of a comma, or greater.

Therefore, these marks should be omitted; and a comma should be set after the word "Tenses," by Rule 3d.]

"The use of inverted comma's derives from France, where one Guillemet was the author of them;

"After the period used with abbreviations we should employ other points, if the construction demands it; thus, after Esq. in the last example, there should be, besides a period, a comma."Ib., p. 212.

This we may do, slightly at a comma, more leisurely at a semicolon, still more so at a colon, and completely at a period.

"Every noun, when used in a direct address and set off by a comma, becomes of the second person, and is in the nominative case absolute; as, 'Paul, thou art beside thyself.

"If, however, the two members are very closely connected, the comma is unnecessary; as, 'Revelation tells us how we may attain happiness.

"But, when the antecedent is used in a restricted sense, a comma is sometimes inserted before the relative; as, 'There is no charm in the female sex, which can supply the place of virtue.

Or: "But, when the antecedent is used in a restricted sense, no comma is usually inserted before the relative; as, 'There is in the female sex no charm which can supply the place of virtue.

Comma, from what takes its name, what denotes, less common in Germ. than in Eng., its ancient form, Rules for the use of, use of, in a series of words.

of German language, form of its type use of the comma less freq.

I have, in this rough work, shaped out a man Whom this beneath world doth embrace and hug With amplest entertainment: my free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax: no levelled malice Infects one comma in the course I hold: But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.

Let us suppose we follow the author while he runs it over, which he does quite rapidly, since there are no blotted lines, but only here and there a comma to be inserted.

These studious persons, who seem to surpass Crambe himself in the faculty of abstraction, smile and bow at every comma, without any appearance of derangement from such frequent interruptions.

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