Shortly after the confession and lamentation we have recorded, the decay reached the vitals, and the machine of clay stopped.

"Intrigue would eat its vitals away; the plottings of inner circles who could plan what they would and give account to no one, would be a corruption seated at its very heart.

Pride was all the matter,pride was the Spartan fox that tore the vitals of Pintal, while he but bit his lips, and bowed, and passed.

At this Eanes drew a large dirk knife, and stabbed Smith in the abdomen, the knife penetrating the vitals, and thus causing immediate death.

This once established destroys the vitals of the system, and the residue of its existence will be misery and wretchedness.

Traveling true to its mark, it tore its frightful way through the thin sheathing of the ship and, exploding on impact, pierced her vitals and sealed her doom.

But this superficial culture could not save the Roman Republic from the dry-rot that sapped her vitals from within.

Sometimes fear froze his vitals, then a flush of self-abasement burned him with its flames.

"Hunger gnaws my vitals.

Then the blood of the Huns in Africa ran cold in their veins, and the fear that the advancing Belgians would wreak vengeance for the crimes of Germany in Belgium and to the Belgian consuls in prison in Tabora, gripped their vitals.

That lean, hungry wolfhound would tear his tongue out by the roots if he even opened his mouth; claw wide open his vitals.

" "Aye," cries Dawson, for all the world in the manner of Evans, "but ere we get to this dry matter let's have a bottle to ease the way, for this riding of horseback has parched up my vitals confoundedly.

Now, as they came on, a nice eye could make out, down on their hulls, light patches of new repair where our sunken fleet had so lately shot and rammed them, and, hanging over the middle of each ship's side in a broad, dark square to protect her vitals, a mass of anchor chains.

Yet our destroyer slipped over the waves, cut through them, played with them, and let them seem to play with her, all the while laughing at them in the confident power of her softly purring vitals.

Figuratively, in these dialects it meant subsistence, life, as we use in both these senses the word "vitals."

To endeavor to do so is to stab our very vitals."

"Stap my vitals, Tuppy, old corpse," I said, concerned, "you're looking pretty blue round the rims.

A German shell had struck her vitals.

But the child Of Zeus rushed in, and with his broadsword drave Through flank and navel, sundering with swift stroke His vitals: Lynceus tottered and he fell,

The sound of it thrilled my very vitals.

A man spending his time painfully to catch a beaver, or entrap an enemy, without stores of thought, without leisure, with nothing often to eat, and nothing to put on but tatters and rags, and, withal, with the whole Anglo-Saxon race treading on his toes and burning out his vitals with ardent spirits.

That invisible cord binding him to his own place, which had wrenched his vitals as it stretched, now drew him back like fate.

His wounded head beat with tremendous and straining painfulness, as though it would burst asunder, and he was possessed by a burning thirst that seemed to consume his very vitals.

It rather belongs to us to win further victory over her, if it may be, by our intelligence, and control her vital, as we are now coming to control her material, powers and their operation.

Inflammation is devouring his vitals.