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According to the balance of these humours a man's character showed itself. A person had these various temperaments according as the amount of blood, phlegm, yellow or black bile was uppermost in his composition.
It not only produces the bile, which has such an important part to play in the work of digestion, but it has a very important work in the changing of foods absorbed into such material as may be assimilated or used by the cells of the various tissues throughout the body.
And as she flattened herself against the ground to blow the kindling pine, she added, between puffs, and without so much as a change of tone: "Don't go, please, ma'am, tell I git dis charcoal lit to start dese shirts to bile. I been tryin' to fix my mouf to ax you is you got air ole crêpe veil you could gimme to wear to chu'ch nex' Sunday please, ma'am?
To crush, in a fit of chronic biliousness, the resistance of Bengal and add its land to the British Empire, may be a racial virtue. To crush, in a fit of any kind, the resistance of our next door neighbour Mr. Robinson, and add his purse to our own, is an individual vice. No! I fail to discover any personal advantage to be gained from excess of bile.
It is also asserted that some substances bear the signatures of the humors, as the petals of the red rose that of the blood, and the roots of rhubarb and the flowers of saffron that of the bile.”
'Behold, they exclaim, 'your hero robbed of the nimbus his inflated style cast around him this preacher and fault-finder reduced to his principal parts: and lo! the main ingredient is most unmistakably "bile!" The critic, however, has nought to do either with the sighs of the sorrowful, 'mourning when a hero falls, or with the scorn of the malicious, rejoicing, as did Bunyan's Juryman, Mr.
How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it. To the jaundiced honey tastes bitter, and to those bitten by mad dogs water causes fear; and to little children the ball is a fine thing. Why then am I angry? Dost thou think that a false opinion has less power than the bile in the jaundiced or the poison in him who is bitten by a mad dog?
This motion continues until the contents of the stomach are converted into chyme, and conveyed into the first intestine, where they undergo another important change. CHYLIFICATION. As fast as chyme is formed, it is expelled by the contractile power of the stomach into the duodenum, or first intestine. It there meets with the bile from the liver, and with the pancreatic juice.
I hear," she impulsively continued, craning her neck to be sure that the object of her remarks was quite out of earshot, "that the south hall was blue to-day with the talk she gave Dorothy Camerden. No one knows what about, for the girl evidently tries to please her. But some women have more than their own proper share of bile; they must expend it on some one."
"Well, you did get a bit knocked about, Master Aleck. You see, he's a hard sort o' boy; awfully thick-headed chap." "He is, and no mistake," said Aleck. "Look at my knuckles!" "Ay, you have got 'em a bit chipped; but it'll all grow up again. But what was it he said as made you bile over and get a-fighting that how?" "Oh, never mind," said the boy, flushing. "It's all over now."
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