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...later, through the corridors, by the audience). "I climb to my saddle," he sings, "and I ride and I ride." He will say to the maiden: "If thou be as fair as men say, do on thy hood and come along o' me; and sooner than a weasel can suck a duck's egg, thou shalt be Queen of England." Near the lady's home, he loses his way, falls asleep, while Mr. Taylor's wood pieces whisper sylvan enchantments and the chorus, offstage, hums the forest mysteries. It is All-Hallow's Eve, when a maid, by performing runic...
...water bottle on his stomach or cervical spine; or merely stuck out his tongue as far as he could strain. These are various means of calming hiccoughs. The hiccough results from a spasm of the victim's diaphragm, which suddenly descends and causes the lungs to suck in a draft of. air. The air strikes against the partially closed glottis to cause the characteristic ripping cough. Frequent attacks of hiccoughs may accompany certain nervous and gastric disorders, uremia, peritonitis, etc., and should have a doctor's attention...
...present to attest her birth. Though an infant, she has gained the reputation of being distinctly self-possessed. Therefore when her petite and tearful mother, Elizabeth, Duchess of York, bent over Princess Elizabeth to say goodbye, last week, the royal infant was concentrating upon an effort to suck her left great toe. . . . "God bless my baby," said Elizabeth of York softly...
Delighted at this really "safe" issue, the Deputies rose to support or confute Dr. Pinard. An unidentified Deputy shouted: "Don't you know that if you take their sucettes away, they'll suck their dirty fingers?" Incensed, the sponsor of the bill replied: "At least, Monsieur, the little ones cannot swallow their fingers and choke to death, as often happens when a sucette becomes lodged in the throat...
...aorta and ending far away as tiny arterioles-expand as the blood enters them, then contract progressively to push the blood onward to the ends of the body-to the brain, the vitals, the tissues of the heart itself, the limbs, the skin. From the terminal arterioles tiny capillaries suck this blood into venules like tiny, feeble fountains trickling foul blood back to the heart. This venous blood the heart pumps into the lungs for the filth to be burnt there by inhaled oxygen, carried away as carbon dioxide. From the lungs the blood returns red to the heart, which...