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"If it be as painful for you," he continued, "to hear a confession as it is for me to make it, you may help yourself to bear the infliction by pouring into your stomach some of that Burgundy. I will take none. I have fire enough in my brain already;" and he pushed the bottle to me.

"There's nothing unique in that experience, either. The spirit is willing, but the stomach is weak to put it in exact terms. As a matter of fact, that's what life is made up of having great purposes overthrown by minor inconveniences. Many a man can get hold of a great idea, but very few of them can stick by it through the things that make them uncomfortable.

I should like to kick her stomach in for her!" She sprang off of the bed, and remained standing for a moment, her hair in disorder, her nostrils dilating, her mouth half open, her fists clenched and drawn back. Then she fell back on the bed once more. The man paced to and fro and paid no attention to his female.

"I got up and began pacing the floor; the damnable affair had made me sick at heart, and a little sick at the stomach. "'Thus the gods have struck, said Lee Fu behind me, in that changeless voice that for a moment seemed to concentrate the echo of the ages.

Why the Blood is Red. The first and main purpose of the blood-pipes and the heart is to carry the dissolved food from the stomach and intestines to the cells all over the body. But the cells need air as well as food; and, to carry this, there are little basket-cells the red corpuscles. Take a drop of blood and put it under a microscope, and you will see what they look like.

As the time passed, his mouth hung looser and looser, while the rings under his eyes seemed to puff out and all his facial muscles to relax. "It's my stomach," he said, once, when he finished the bottle and dropped it under the seat; but the swift hardening of his brother's face did not encourage further explanations.

Lloyd said that these cases were forms of neuroses, and were types of hysteric vomiting. There was no gustatory satisfaction connected with any form of hysteric vomiting that he had seen. In some of these cases of hysteric vomiting the food does not appear to enter the stomach, but is rejected by a sort of spasm of the esophagus.

And Doctor Murray, he has given me special orders ever since last year, when monsieur had the bad stomach," he repeated. "Was any one else here?" "Yes I think so. You see, I am so excited a big dinner such epicures everything must be just so I cannot say."

He took great care of himself, measuring his stomach by the waist-board of his trousers, with the constant dread of having to loosen the buckle or draw it tighter; for he considered himself just right, and out of coquetry neither desired to grow fatter nor thinner. That made him hard to please in the matter of food, for he regarded every dish from the point of view of keeping his waist as it was.

He fixed his eyes on one spot, raised his hand curved into a hollow, and suddenly fell on his stomach on the ground and slapped the hollow of his hand down upon the grass. "Caught!" he wheezed triumphantly, and, getting up, lifted a big grasshopper to Yegorushka's eyes.