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I do not wish to be disrespectful, but I cannot endure her presence." "Send who away?" "Mrs. Oswald Carey." "She amuses me, child. Her great beauty is delightful to gaze at." King George put a lozenge into his mouth and sighed reflectively. He was a victim to asthma. The east winds of Boston cut him to the bone. "Do not compel me, your Majesty, to be more explicit.
I don't appreciate it, myself. Such lightning-change business may be all very agreeable in a girl. It is those poets. A woman's tears do not make one wet, but the rain does; and her coldness does not lay the foundations of asthma and rheumatism, as the east wind is apt to. I can prepare for and put up with a regularly bad day, but these ha'porth-of-all-sorts kind of days do not suit me.
After another cold interval, a wheezy little pew-opener afflicted with an asthma, appropriate to the churchyard, if not to the church, summoned them to the font a rigid marble basin which seemed to have been playing a churchyard game at cup and ball with its matter of fact pedestal, and to have been just that moment caught on the top of it.
Some good stiff work, a turn with the gloves, for instance, is the best preparation I know for any important decision. A man cannot decide wisely when he feels grubby. Your asthma this afternoon is a symptom of liver." "It is humiliating to a creature endowed with conscience and intellect to discover how small a part these play at times in his decisions.
They are going to burn me!" said the old lady, and then she fell coughing, for she had long suffered from asthma. While convulsed with this fit, the boys took the opportunity to besmear her face with red and black paint, and to place the helmet on her head, and the coat round her, so that the arms hung on each side with nothing on them.
An hour's hard practice followed, without word from either except as regarded the work in hand. "I feel better now, dad," said the young man when they had finished. "And now for a round with you." "But what about your wind, boy? I don't like that asthma of yours this afternoon." "I am quite all right. It's quite gone. I feel sure it was the pollen from the beaver meadow."
His father had the perception that the enervating condition of asthma emasculated the son to the point of making him "good for nothing." It was only a perception but no demon was harder to exorcise than perception. Philistines had feelings embedded harder than teeth: prejudices that were both intolerable and inextricable.
Perkins. "Fact is, Johnnie, you're way ahead as far as your mind is concerned. I'm mighty pleased about your reading. I certainly am, old fellow! And in no time you can get some blood into your cheeks, and cultivate some muscle, and straighten out your lungs. Once there was a boy who was in worse shape than you are, because he had the asthma, and could hardly breathe.
ASTHMA. As this complaint generally attacks aged people, the best mode of relief will be to attend carefully to diet and exercise, which should be light and easy, and to avoid as much as possible an exposure to cold and frosty air. The temperature of the apartment should be equalised to moderate summer's heat by flues and stoves, and frequently ventilated.
He is in the medical line, and is a district doctor in the province of Tchernigov. . . . 'Very well . . . I said to him, 'here I have asthma and one thing and another. . . . You are a doctor; cure your father! He undressed me on the spot, tapped me, listened, and all sorts of tricks, . . . kneaded my stomach, and then he said, 'Dad, you ought to be treated with compressed air." Father Christopher laughed convulsively, till the tears came into his eyes, and got up.
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