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Updated: May 3, 2025
A serious disease often steals on insidiously, and we have perhaps only the shivering fit, which might be but a slight one, to tell us of its approach. A trifling ailment, too, by neglecting the premonitory symptom, which, at first might only be indicated by a slight shivering fit, will sometimes become a mortal disorder: In case of a shivering fit, perhaps you will tell me what to do?
'Spect when you Mungana, she keep you alive a long time, four or five years perhaps, if no other white man come this way. Pity you can't take it on a bit, Major," he added insidiously, "because then she grow careless and make you chief and we get chance scoop out that gold house and bolt with bally lot.
But Henrietta was at some trouble to eliminate Serafina from the sick-chamber, holding her tendencies suspect as insidiously and quite superfluously sentimental, where any male creature might be concerned.
He saw with alarm the spirit of that Revolution, so widely different from that which had shaken off the fetters of kingly rule in America, working insidiously into the constitution of the politics of the United States, and passion assuming the control of reason in the minds of his people.
The sun had already vanished in a haze of regal purple hanging low along the western horizon when at length I managed to bag three brace of the widgeon that I had been hoping for; and with these neatly strung together by the feet, and slung across Jack's shoulders in front of the saddle, I was just preparing to mount and canter away back to camp when, looming monstrously through the thin, grey mist that was insidiously rising from the veld, I beheld a long procession of enormous forms gradually resolving out of the fog wreaths about half a mile away.
"Too small," "Oh, my, kitchen's too dark," "What awful paper," "You don't call that closet a room, I hope," and the like. It seemed a harmless game, and we did not suspect that in a more serious form its fascinations were insidiously rooting themselves in our own lives.
Like champagne at 2 a.m., it is good to look upon and pleasant to the palate; but at last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an able-bodied bumble-bee in a pair of blue-jean pants. Like alcoholism, love lies in wait for the young and unwary approaches the victim so insidiously that ere he is aware of danger he's a gone sucker.
Presently these particles became heavier, more perceptible, and polished like small shot, and a keen wind drove them stingingly into the faces of the passengers, or insidiously into their pockets, collars, or the folds of their clothes. The snow forced itself through the smallest crevice.
Bewilderment sprang from an eerie sense vivid to the verge of illusion that his mother was with him again in the person of Arúna: a fancy enhanced by the fact that his entire knowledge of Indian womanhood the turns of thought and phrase, the charm, at once sensuous and spiritual was linked indissolubly with her. And the perilous charm had penetrated insidiously deeper than he knew.
Then he went back to his cabin and his interrupted work and set himself to wait in patience for the return of Drake. But in Lost Valley a leaven was rising. It had begun insidiously to work with the appearance of Kenset in Tharon's band at Courtrey's doorstep.
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