This sense warns the animal against swallowing deleterious substances.

In very weak patients there is often a nervous difficulty in swallowing, which is much increased if food is not ready and presented at the moment when it is wanted: the nurse should be able to discriminate, and know when this moment is approaching.

Cold chills, shivering, nausea, thirst, hot skin, quick pulse, with difficulty of swallowing; the tongue is coated, presenting through its fur innumerable specks, the elevated papillae of the tongue, which gives it the speckled character, that, if not the invariable sign of scarlet fever, is only met with in cases closely analogous to that disease.

A hot, burning, acid taste is felt in the act of swallowing, and vomiting of a greenish-brown fluid is produced, sooner or later, according to the quantity and strength of the poison taken.

There is a coppery taste experienced in the act of swallowing, with a burning heat, extending from the top of the throat down to the stomach; and also a feeling of great tightness round the throat.

A strong metallic taste in the act of swallowing, followed by a burning pain in the region of the stomach, vomiting, and great purging.

We'll show our apology in something better than words, too, I hope,' he said, kind of swallowing his Adam's apple.

Suppose the moment of the swallowing up of Pompeii.

Parker and Old Heck gulped their astonishment and disappointmenteach swallowing as if he had something in his throat that would not go downand glared savagely at each other.

She kept putting a lock back of her ear, she kept swallowing.

" The net result of that little call had been the bloodless capture of Hoffman and the other German spy, who had been surprised in the prosaic act of swallowing their breakfast.

All the trees were bright and dewy in the sunrisebirds were singingand the thousand variegated colors of the fall swept on from end to end of it, swallowing the little stream, and breaking against the sky like a gay fringe.

As a matter of fact, a person inadvertently swallowing hot tea or coffee will burn or scald his mouth or tongue much more painfully than will a professional fire-eater.

He lives on them, swallowing as many at each gulp as would fill several big baskets.

Dashing at them, he tears the net to pieces, swallowing lumps of netting with great mouthfuls of fish.

While Ninon de l'Enclos was receiving and encouraging the attentions of the most distinguished men of her time, literati, nobles, warriors, statesmen, and sages, in her house in the Rue des Tournelles, the mistress of the sovereign, the dear friend who had betrayed her to the Marquis de Villarceaux, was swallowing, at Versailles, the adulations of degraded courtiers of every rank and profession.

It was but last year, I think, that the population of Carenage turned out to see a fight in a tree between a Cribo and a Fer-de-lance, of about equal size, which, after a two hours' struggle, ended in the Cribo swallowing the Fer-de-lance, head foremost.

Their specialty was crab-fishing, at which they were highly expert, plunging into the water up to the depth of their legs, and handling and swallowing pretty large specimens with surprising dexterity.

After the most strenuous exertions they succeed in swallowing the raw fish.

Swallowing a hasty breakfast we mounted our ponies, and followed by our ragged escort, made off for the forest.

The guests manipulate a huge ball of rice and curry mixed between the fingers of the right hand, pass this solemnly into their widely-gaping mouths, with the head thrown back to receive the mess, like an adjutant-bird swallowing a frog, and then they masticate with much apparent enjoyment.

Swallowing a hasty morsel of toast and a cup of coffee, we mounted our ponies, sent our guns on ahead, and rode off for the village where the rhinoceros was reported.

If the tiger is very hungry he then begins his feast, tearing huge fragments of flesh from the dead body, and not unusually swallowing them whole.

But I expect that the swallowing of the first loan was sweetened by a spoonful of jam of this kind.

From the center where the asteroid was indicated, an expanding circle of darkness went forth, gradually swallowing up all the probes.