" "I'm not saying the wet has come in from outside; but you know as well as I do a man sweats like a horse on the trail.

The pike, fell tyrant of the liquid plain, With ravenous waste devours his fellow train; Yet howsoe'er with raging famine pined, The tench he spares, a medicinal kind; For when by wounds distress'd, or sore disease, He courts the salutary fish for ease; Close to his scales the kind physician glides, And sweats a healing balsam from his sides.

The hippopotamus is like the lazy fat man that groans from force of habit, sits down as though it was the last act of his life and only gets up when the bell rings for meals, and he sweats blood for fear he will lose his meal ticket and starve to death.

Now fight my thoughts against my passions: Now strive my passions against my thoughts: Now sweats my heart, now chill cold falls it dead.

Again, the thought of her inexplicable loss came over her, and she was frightened to madness; creeping chills alternating with cold sweats tortured her.

Draw thee beloved in peace, and feared in wars, Inured to noonday sweats, and midnight cares!

The other gallant is his zany, and doth most of these tricks after him; sweats to imitate him in everything to a hair, except a beard, which is not yet extant.

His dinner is his other work, for he sweats at it as much as at his labour; he is a terrible fastener on a piece of beef, and you may hope to stave the guard off sooner.

[2510]He thinks they laugh or point at him, or do it in disgrace of him, circumvent him, contemn him; every man looks at him, he is pale, red, sweats for fear and anger, lest somebody should observe him.

The best crew afloat cannot preclude all casualties, or exclude sleepless nights and cold sweats now and then; but a quick eye, a cool head, a prompt hand, and indomitable perseverance will overcome almost all things.

The thermometer registers a subnormal temperature, the extremities are cold, and cold sweats bedew the body.

A man gets on edge when he works and sweats for months and sees it all about to come to nothing.

Three or four times he was bedewed with profuse sweats; and these again were succeeded by an extreme dryness and burning heat of the skin.

For phthisical night sweats it is utterly useless; but these can be completely checked by the hypodermic use of from one-eighteenth to one-fiftieth of a grain of the atropia sulphate; the smaller dose, if it will answer, being preferable, as the larger causes dryness of the pharynx, and interferes with ocular accommodation.

Not so the Holland fleet, who, tired and done, Stretch'd on their decks like weary oxen lie; Faint sweats all down their mighty members run; Vast bulks which little souls but ill supply.

Hemorrhage, spasms, night-sweats continued.

Her somnambulic situation alternated with fever, hemorrhage, and night-sweats.

With all his care my cough grew worse, and night sweats set in; a few weeks later

Her appetite failed; night sweats came on; and she was so weak that most of the day she lay in bed.

Her cough abated, her appetite was restored, her night sweats ceased, and in less than a month she was strong and well.

TOBY-DOG Once in a while, squatting down, She eagerly scratches the earth, toils and sweats over it; then I jump 'round her, delighted to see her at something so useful and so familiar.

A violent ague for seven hours, cold and hot fits succeeded with faint sweats. June 26.

I'le watch you for that trick, baboon, I'le Smoke you: the rogue sweats, as if he had eaten Grains, he broyles, if I do come to the Basting of you.

Lord, how he sweats!

'Look you,' said he, 'my cane sweats.'