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Called up for interrogation in the afternoon of the same day, he did nothing but go into convulsions of laughter at every question put to him; and when the Governor, worried out of all patience, lost his temper and began to swear, he only laughed more immoderately than ever.
Their jaws were thin, their eyes, deeply sunk, had a far-away melancholy in them. They were swarthy. Their voices were keyed to a drawl. They sprawled, were free and easy in their movements. They told racy stories, laughed immoderately, chewed tobacco. Some of the passengers were drinking whisky, which was procured anywhere along the way, at taverns or stores. The stage rolled from side to side.
Longhi describes the case of a woman of twenty-seven, an epileptic, with metritis and copious catamenia twice a month. She was immoderately addicted to drink and sexual indulgence, and in February, 1835, her menses ceased. On May 8th she was admitted to the hospital with a severe epileptic convulsion, and until the 18th remained in a febrile condition, with abdominal tenderness, etc.
"And Tony Beeson has a good house and a good business. I like him," the boy said, doggedly. "Yes," assentingly. "But Marie is to marry him." "Oh, the idea!" Pierre laughed immoderately. "Why a man always marries a woman." "But your liking wouldn't help Marie." "Oh, Marie is all right. She will like him fast enough. And it will be gay to have a wedding. That is to be about Christmas."
"I should never have supposed that you were married, madam." She looked at me with evident surprise for a moment, then she turned towards her friend, and both began to laugh immoderately. Ashamed, but for them more than myself, I left the house with a firm resolution never again to take virtue for granted in a class of women amongst whom it is so scarce.
Samuel Johnson, 'that majestick teacher of moral and religious wisdom, while sitting solemn in an armchair in the Isle of Sky, talk, ex cathedra, of his keeping a seraglio , and acknowledge that the supposition had often been in his thoughts, struck me so forcibly with ludicrous contrast, that I could not but laugh immoderately.
I wanted to discover how far jealousy would carry you, and invented this trick for the purpose," The officer, upon this, was struck with admiration of his wife's pleasantry and his own credulity, which so tickled his fancy that he laughed immoderately, begged pardon for his foolish conduct, and they spent the evening cheerfully together; after which, the husband going to the bath, his wife charitably released the almost dead tailor, and reproving him for his impertinence, declared if he ever again looked up at her balcony she would contrive his death.
"Ain't it?" interrupted Ralph. "No, my dear boy, it isn't. I have been afflicted, from my youth up, with a chronic disease which the best physicians of both continents have pronounced imminently dangerous to both life and happiness, if physical exercise be immoderately indulged in." "What is it?" asked Ralph, innocently. "Indolentia, my dear boy, indolentia; a terrible affliction.
'In this house I am a Queen and thou art a King. The Sahib' she put her arms above her head and thought for a moment 'the Sahib shall be our Vizier thine and mine, Wali Dad because he has said that thou shouldst leave me. Wali Dad laughed immoderately, and I laughed too. 'Be it so, said he. 'My friend, are you willing to take this lucrative Government appointment? Lalun, what shall his pay be?
As the two friends approached the buggy, Dixie, who had seen them, suddenly turned her head in an opposite direction and seemed to be laughing immoderately at the beginning of a barrel-race. To attract her attention Henley cleared his throat and coughed. But whether she heard he never knew.
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