The abyss was, as Tonnison put it, like nothing so much as a gigantic well or pit going sheer down into the bowels of the earth.

Even its occasional administration leaves the bowels in a relaxed state; a great advantage over other purgatives, which generally cause, after their action is passed off, a confined state.

The first that may be found, provided he be a Franciscan, and a priest likely to have bowels for lovers in haste.

May Gula, the Sovereign Lady, the great wife of Ninip, infilter into his bowels with a poison that will not leave him, and may he void pus and blood like water.

The great object is to open the bowels as freely and as quickly as possible.

Here was a man disemboweledthey wound his very bowels about a windlass, before his eyes, and at each turnI could see it written in the picturethey asked him, did he yield at last, did he agree, did he consent. .

OVERFEEDING, AND THE USE OF IMPROPER AND UNWHOLESOME FOOD.These causes are more productive of disorder of the stomach and bowels at the time of weaning than any yet referred to.

To cure derangement of the bowels from this cause, a wet-nurse is the only remedy.

Her snares, and spins her bowels into nets.

To this effect she complained in Apuleius, "Thou art the cause of my grief, thy eyes piercing through mine eyes to mine inner parts, have set my bowels on fire, and therefore pity me that am now ready to die for thy sake."

He died in 1285, and his body was buried at Kirkham, his bowels before the high altar at Belvoir, and his heart at Croxton Abbey; it being a practice of that age for the corporeal remains of eminent persons to be thus distributed after death.

If the bowels are accidentally confined at this age, castor oil is certainly the best aperient that can be given: it acts mildly but efficiently, clearing out the bowels without irritating them.

This will do more towards softening his coat and loosening his bowels than any thing else.

And if the mother only cause this habit to be fairly established in infancy, she will do much towards promoting regularity of her child's bowels throughout life.

MedicineBegin by giving a simple dose of castor oil, just enough and no more than will clear out the bowels by one or two motions.

But sea-sickness also partly depends on the irregular pressure of the bowels against the diaphragm, as their inertia or weight varies with the rising and falling of the ship.