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Updated: June 8, 2025
A fine young fellow, whose arm had been shattered, was just falling into the spasms of lockjaw. The beads of sweat stood large and round on his flushed and contracted features. It was suggested that it might shorten life. "What then?" I said. "Are a dozen additional spasms worth living for?" The time approached for the train to arrive from Hagerstown, and we went to the station.
Oh, please, be careful. Please, don't drive him past our yard. If you will wait I I'll let myself into the house and I'll manage to get up on the fence." "You'll ruin your gown." "I don't care about my gown." "These fences are the limit! Full of spikes and nails.... Will you be careful?" "Yes, very." "The nails are rusty. I I am h-horribly afraid of lockjaw." "Then don't remain there an instant."
He had gone alone to his country-house on pressing business. For want, perhaps, of immediate help, he lay twenty-two hours stiff and stark as though he were dead. A very hot bath was all that saved him." "It must be a species of lockjaw," said one of the guests. "I don't know," she answered. "He got the disease in the army nearly thirty years ago.
The white, fibrous cord, or band, by which a muscle is attached to a bone; a sinew. A disease marked by persistent contractions of all or some of the voluntary muscles; those of the jaw are sometimes solely affected; the disorder is then termed lockjaw. The upper cavity of the trunk of the body, containing the lungs, heart, etc.; the chest.
"Why, you can't open your jaws. Let go of my gown, Joel. I must hurry home." And with visions of Miss Jerusha in the little brown house, she hurried off as fast as she could down the lane. "Huh!" exclaimed Joel, left quite alone staring after her. "I guess I ain't going to have any old lockjaw. And I could open my jaws, too."
It is said that this habit originated at a time when lockjaw was very prevalent among the tribe, and it was found that if these teeth were pulled out food could still be taken. This explanation seems scarcely satisfactory or sufficient, and I give it only for what it is worth: but whatever the reason for the custom, the absence of these two teeth constitutes a most distinctive identifying mark.
Why don't you manifest the power of the human intellect?" and so on, howling out ironical remarks like those; and s'posin' he kept that dog on that leg until he made you swear to pay the bet, and then at last had to pry the dog off with a hot poker, bringing away at the same time some of your flesh in the dog's mouth, so that you had to be carried home on a stretcher, and to hire several doctors to keep you from dying with lockjaw.
Come to my room and I'll bandage your hands. I'm not afraid of lockjaw, but you can't go about any longer like that. Then we must get a clean cloth, and begin again." Poor Maud! She set her lips and went through the new duties without shirking or skimping, resolutely avoiding a look into the garden.
Rothchild's bonnet awry. Still Europena stood there, an evident victim of lockjaw. "'I have a little finger," prompted her mother frantically from the second row front. A single ray of intelligence flickered for a moment over the child's face, and with a supreme effort she said: "I have a little finger, An' I have a little beau; When I get a little bigger I'll have a little toe."
He immediately took a house in Ballykeerin, and, as it happened that a man of his own trade, named Davis, died about the same time of lockjaw, occasioned by a chisel wound in the ball of the thumb, as a natural consequence, Art came in for a considerable portion of his business; so true is it, that one man's misfortune is another man's making.
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