"Concussion of the brain.

We cannot enter minutely into the train of circumstances which for several years brought Maurice and Barneveldt into perpetual concussion with each other.

My head, though externally correct, has had a severe concussion in my long illness, and the very idea of an engagement hanging over for a day or two, forbids my rest; and I get up miserable.

Directly the horse is put to work he has for a great part of his time to travel upon roadwayseither macadamized roads or town setswhere everything is calculated to bring concussion about.

He had ideas as to how should be flown the new form of kite which should carry into the upper depths explosives to shatter and compress the atmosphere and produce the condensation which makes rain, just as concussions from belowas after the cannonading of a great battleproduce the same effect.

These emigrants repaid his favours with the basest ingratitude; after being guilty of the grossest and most infamous concussions on the inhabitants of those parts of Germany where their jurisdiction extended, they had the hypocrisy after the restoration to declaim against the oppression of the Usurper's government and its system: but Napoleon richly deserved to meet with this ingratitude for employing such unprincipled fellows.

Watching the moment when they lay parallel to each other, he fired across the heads of the devoted pair, and immediately secured them both, although, as it afterwards appeared, rather by the influence of concussion than the more immediate action of the shot.

This seems to point strongly to the fact that concussion through constant work upon unyielding roads is a great factor in their production.

Concussion to the foot is therefore greater.

He is told to lie down on his back in the boat, to protect his head from a concussion against the low roof.