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The poisons circulating in the blood produce waxy degeneration in certain viscera, notably the liver, spleen, kidneys, and intestines. The process begins in the arterial walls, and spreads thence to the connective-tissue structures, causing marked enlargement of the affected organs.
She was very tired and, paradoxically enough, it gave her one of her last remaining charms. Her eyelids were freighted with weariness, were waxy white of it, and they could flutter to her cheeks, like white butterflies against white, and lay shadows there that maddened Jason.
The Harvester drew on the lines, Betsy swerved to the edge of the road, and he leaned and broke a branch. "This one," he answered. "Buttonbush, because those balls resemble round buttons. Aren't they peculiar? See how waxy and gracefully cut and set the leaves are. Go on, Betsy, get us home before night.
The earth around us was thickly carpeted with long grass interspersed with dense fern-brakes, and here and there a magnificent clump of aloes, their long waxy leaves and delicate white blossoms standing out in strong relief against the blaze of intense scarlet or the rich vivid green of a neighbouring bush.
It is sometimes black, but oftener yellowish and waxy, beautifully tinted with red, and makes better pies and puddings than the sloe, for which purposes it is often sold in the markets. In Provence, where, as in other parts of France, this plum abounds, it is called 'Prune sibanelle, because, from its sourness, it is impossible to whistle after eating it!
The worst of it is," Beth added, after sucking the point of her pencil a little "The worst of it is, you never know what will make her waxy. To-day, at luncheon, you know now, what did I say?" "Oh," said Aunt Grace Mary vaguely; "you oughtn't to have said it, you know." "Now, that's just like mamma!
"I say, reefer," he said, "you do look hot." "Sir!" snapped out the middy, trying to look the boy down. "I say, don't be so waxy because you are disappointed." "I beg, sir, that you will not address your remarks to me; and please recollect that you and yours are not out of the wood yet." "All right; only look here; your lads have had a long row, and you have got another one back.
They are in wet cotton battin at the stems, and they won't fade a bit all day," and Nettie offered to Nan a gorgeous bouquet of lovely pure white, waxy lilies, that grow so many on a stalk and have such a delicious fragrance. Nettie's house was an old homestead, and there delicate blooms crowded around the sitting-room window. Nan let her hatbox down and took the flowers.
But when she dipped into the damp heat of the greenhouses, among the spiced scents and waxy pinks and reds of old-fashioned exotics, even the flora of Lyng was in the note! she learned that the great man had not arrived, and the day being too rare to waste in an artificial atmosphere, she came out again and paced slowly along the springy turf of the bowling-green to the gardens behind the house.
There was a stricken pause. 'I didn't know, said Cyril tamely. 'Nobody ever does know anything, sobbed Anthea. 'I didn't know you were waxy. I thought you'd just hurt your fingers with the tap again like you did last week, Cyril carefully explained. 'Oh fingers! sneered Anthea through her sniffs. 'Here, drop it, Panther, he said uncomfortably. 'You haven't been having a row or anything?
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