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This is true even when food has been well masticated; but it becomes strikingly apparent when a full meal has been hastily swallowed, both mastication and insalivation having been imperfectly performed. The time usually occupied in the process of chymification, when food has been properly masticated, varies from three to four hours.
We do not pretend to enter into a disquisition as to the correctness or incorrectness of Ned's opinions; we merely state them, leaving our reader to exercise his own reasoning powers on the subject, if so disposed. For a few seconds after Ned's last speech, no sound escaped the lips of his comrades, save those resulting from the process of mastication.
Gaites witnessed the whole drama with an interest that held him suspended between the gulps and morsels of his breakfast, and at times quite arrested the processes of mastication and deglutition.
But that Aline his Aline should have to deny herself the exercise of that mastication of rich meats which, together with the gift of speech, raises man above the beasts of the field That was what tortured George. He had devoted the day to thinking out a solution of the problem.
In the former, at first I gave great dissatisfaction, either from breaking the decayed tooth short off, and leaving the stump in the socket, or from mistaking the one pointed out, and drawing a sound engine of mastication in its stead.
Thus his soldiers saw him, after what he boastingly called his supper that is to say, after the exercise of mastication reported by us at the commencement of this chapter like Napoleon on the eve of Austerlitz, seated asleep in his rush chair, half beneath the light of his lamp, half beneath the reflection of the moon, commencing its ascent in the heavens, which denoted that it was nearly half past nine in the evening.
The girl kept her lips open as she ate, displaying bloodless gums in which were stuck irregular decayed teeth; she exhibited the varying processes of mastication, the while her boiled eyes stared vacantly before her. She compelled Mavis's attention, with the result that the latter had no further use for the food on her plate.
That possibility to which he had looked forward, it seemed to him for years that companionship, that intimacy with his fellow-lodger, that delightful acquaintance which was only to ripen at some far distant time, he could not exactly say when behold, it had suddenly come to a head, here in this over-crowded, over-heated room, in the midst of all this feeding, surrounded by odors of hot dishes, accompanied by the sounds of incessant mastication.
As Hughlings Jackson has well shown, speech uses most of the same organs as does eating, but those concerned with the former are controlled from a higher level of nerve-cells. By right mastication, deglutition, etc., we are thus developing speech organs. Thus not only the kind but the time of forms and degrees of exercise is best prescribed by heredity. All growth is more or less rhythmic.
Little as he had relished the idea of acknowledging his bygone weakness, he had not dreamed of a result like this. For a moment he gazed at her with dumb appeal, then faltered: "I was was afraid you'd be disgusted with me, Persis." "I am." He swallowed hard as if her answer were a mouthful that resisted mastication. For a little they sat silent.
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