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I perceived that I was sickening from excitement and inanition; neither meat nor drink had passed my lips that day, for I had taken no breakfast. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
Decades ago, I saw “Grey Gardens” as a story of a festering delusion of the American aristocracy and the closed circles of high society decaying into inanition and dependency. Movie of the Week: “Grey Gardens” 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z
There were times in “High Life,” by contrast, when my attention began to wander through space—always a hazard, I guess, when the main menace is moral inanition and a heedless despair. Flesh Meets Machine in “High Life” 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z
America, which is entertaining itself to inanition, has never experienced a scarcity of entertainment. Opinion | Public broadcasting’s immortality defies reason 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z
Long before progress, understood as streaming, brought us binge-watching, she foresaw people entertaining themselves into inanition with portable technologies that enable “limitless self-absorption,” making people solipsistic and unmannerly. Opinion | The ‘alternative facts’ epidemic goes way beyond politics 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z
Two pathologists initially found that 49-year-old Michael Stanley Galliher died in August from complications of inanition, defined as an exhausted condition resulting from lack of nourishment. Coroner: Inmate died of natural causes in starving dispute 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z
The autopsy report, provided to The Associated Press after a public records request, found Galliher died from “complications of inanition,” defined as an exhausted condition resulting from lack of nourishment. Coroner: California inmate had signs of starvation 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z
Clearly its spasmodic coughing betokened the fact that it would soon cease duty from sheer inanition. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z
I suffer a daily martyrdom in her house, and I am sure I begin to perceive signs of inanition in Miss Brabourne. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z
Swellings subside from inanition, and doctors insist for their credit's sake that the stick or ready arm be relinquished. The King's Stratagem and Other Stories 2012-03-22T02:00:40.343Z
The feathers still go on growing in geometrical progression, and drawing the sources of vitality still faster than they can be supplied, till the bird faints and expires from inanition. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z
Between September 20th and 25th the battle of the Aisne seemed on the high road to die of inanition. The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres 2012-03-17T02:01:05.397Z
Starvation or inanition belongs to the same category by negation. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z
Meanwhile a theory of scientific method and of the laws governing the growth of intelligence and formation of ideas grew up, and left the older logic to perish of formality and inanition. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z
Tropical trees may also become stag-headed owing to the attacks of Loranthus and other parasites, the portions above the point of attachment dying back from inanition. Disease in Plants 2012-03-01T03:00:22Z
He span out my nerves, like gold-wire through smaller and smaller holes, to utter inanition and evanition; for the bed-clothes at last literally marched off to the door of the room. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z
May you find what you need—white, sunny Winter hours, not too stove-heated nor too pork-fed, with a crisp dry air and a frequent leisure and no desperation of inanition. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z
The blood undoubtedly undergoes important morbid changes, whereby its nutritive and oxygenating power is impaired, indicating that this is a disease of inanition. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z
The very thought in his estimation perished from inanition and sheer inability of conception! Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z
A digestive crisis making food loathsome and nutrition impossible—and sick inanition and weakness and depression permanent. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z
And nervous depletion occasioned by working-wives has doubtless much to do with the inanition and depression now crippling our industrial output. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z
Nothing could persuade him to eat, and yet he never suffered, or gave the least sign of suffering, from inanition. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z
At the moment Mr. Thackeray presented himself I was thoroughly faint from inanition, having eaten nothing since a very slight breakfast, and it was then seven o'clock in the evening. Charlotte Bront? A Monograph 2011-11-01T02:00:20.233Z
There is connected with inanition a singular tendency to decomposition and putridity, alike in the blood and viscera. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z
It was one, in fact, that practically saved French literature from expiring of inanition. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z
They are suffering, perhaps, from some specific ailment, bronchitis, paralysis, gastric or intestinal troubles; perhaps only from mysterious wasting and inanition. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z
Meantime, clubs like the Ariel, Corsair West London, Ino, and others have become ‘fine by degrees and beautifully less,’ until they expired of inanition. Boating 2011-09-21T02:00:35.453Z
The last occasion, before its death of inanition, on which the International Match was played, it was played in foursomes. Fifty Years of Golf 2011-09-14T02:00:50.627Z
Neither the one nor the other will alone support life indefinitely, and when one or the other decreases below well-defined limits, health declines, and finally life becomes extinct from inanition. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z
Like some beings who dwell in the grosser world, might he not die of inanition for want of feeding abnormal and disappointed cravings? The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z
The Arcadia fulfilled its mission to some extent, but it lacked creative power, became dogmatic, and ultimately died of inanition. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z
When all the arable earth is one huge allotment-ground, a Corot will find no subject for his canvas, not even in his dreams, for his dreams will be dead of inanition. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z
There was not always a clear distinction between inanition and inanity. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z
While in the second mine, and exhausted both from fatigue and inanition, I felt the utter impossibility of talking longer with the German inspector who accompanied me. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z
You are dying of inanition, and you do not know it. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z
But with him indecency is a disease, as he speaks unclean things from perfect inanition. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z
In cases of great prostration with mental debility, in the hopeless vacuity that precedes death by inanition or starvation, it is sometimes very effective. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z
He span out my nerves, like gold-wire through smaller and smaller holes, to utter inanition and evanition, for the bed-clothes at last literally marched off to the door of the room. The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z
Anemia develops as a consequence and there may be slight fever which is sometimes inanition fever. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z
Some excuse for her there might have been, had she been hurried away by imagination or passion; but with her, indecency seems a disease, she appears to speak unclean things from perfect inanition.” Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z
The others listened with the universal greedy appetite for entertainment which might have been supposed to have dwindled and died of inanition in their serious and deprived lives. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z
As a result of this the patient suffers from inanition, and lives largely on his own fats and proteids, and for this reason rapidly emaciates. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z
Then men died of sheer inanition at a thousand feet. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z
They are suffering from inanition, and, as is well known, starving people cannot be allowed to eat heartily, because their stomachs have not enough vitality to digest well. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z
That's not as bad as dying of inanition—which would happen to the majority here if they didn't have things like this to amuse 'em. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z
Or, to put it more crudely, he is emotion Fletcherized to the point of inanition. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z
It was early morning when the scream of the Gray Eagle roused the usual crowd of loafers from their sleep and inanition at Owensboro'. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z
I tell him he's foolish to pay any attention to it; just let it die of inanition. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z
Therefore another week saw unsubstantial suspicion waning; scoffs had their day and died of inanition; and the boy's high-hearted flouting of a hard imposition annulled its rigour. The Unknown Sea
A kerosene lamp, guttering now to the inanition of spent fuel and wick, revealed a face of pasty pallor and eyes deep sunk in dark sockets. The Tempering
They saw gray-haired heads fallen on soup-plates utterly exhausted from inanition. H. R.
If persons whose systems were reduced by inanition should by chance stump a toe or scratch the hand, the next report to me was gangrene, so potent was the regular hospital gangrene. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z
The dangers from cold, inanition, and exposure, were all inferior to the greater one resulting from some injury to the brain. Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II)
Conversation drags along till after Ten o'Clock, when it dies of sheer inanition. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, August 20, 1887.
I have frankly declared that if I do not go out of this watery atmosphere and verdant Bastile I shall perish of sheer inanition and exhaustion. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June
Repletion is less injurious than inanition; and according to my observation gluttony is the vice of adults rather than of children. Maids Wives and Bachelors
These demands were of a nature not to be drilled into obedience; so, at last, overcome by fatigue and inanition, in I marched, having first seen my master march out. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment
Dynamite would not appall her, but to me it would be the acme of satisfaction, ineffably supreme, to startle such clods of inanition by a cry of mouse, and electrify them into momentary emotion. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1
The youthful mind, which was formerly sick from inanition, is now in danger from a plethora. Coelebs In Search of a Wife
Stretched out near the hearth lay Den-Brao, his face covered by his mason's jacket; himself expiring of inanition, he wished to escape the sight of the agony of his family. The Infant's Skull Or The End of the World. A Tale of the Millennium
The Ottoman power is to all appearance perishing of inanition, and the mere hastening of its dissolution through external shocks is not to be deprecated. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877.
And we couldn't even leave the infernal things to die of inanition. Aliens
Even if the three Powers do not remove these gentlemen, their absurd and disastrous government must perish by itself of inanition. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25)
Here came a pause, due to inanition of distinctive features. When Ghost Meets Ghost
The corpses of the wretches who died of inanition strewed the fields, roads and highways; the decomposing bodies poisoned the air, engendered illnesses and even pestilential epidemics until then unknown; the population was decimated. The Infant's Skull Or The End of the World. A Tale of the Millennium
If you are well fed, you can perhaps afford to be ill lodged; whereas, I doubt whether enjoyment of the most commodious apartments is compatible with inanition and dyspepsia. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1
With no thought of concealment, he exposed his ambition in regard to Carmen––even the love for her that he knew must die of inanition––and ended by throwing himself without reserve upon Rosendo’s judgment. Carmen Ariza
If she gets neither of these things the love or friendship never wakes, or, having been aroused, it dies of inanition. Name and Fame A Novel
Creative artistic and intellectual impulses are shouldered aside, fall asleep, or die of inanition. The Social Principles of Jesus
They must assault the government, or perish of inanition; and they must stimulate the mob by the novelty of their demands, and the violence of their declamation, or they must sink into oblivion. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846
His self-esteem as a celebrity, stimulated and fattened by a tremendous daily diet of press-cuttings, and letters from feminine admirers all over the vastest of empires, was certainly in no immediate danger of inanition. A Great Man A Frolic
No one surely would deny the diagnostic value of glycosuria for diabetes, because in conditions of inanition, for instance, the sugar of a diabetic may completely vanish, although the disease continues. Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological
If "patriot" members had to live on the voluntary offerings of their constituencies, the trade would expire of inanition. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule
In this alkali desert of inanition Prue's vivacious temper would have been welcome. In a Little Town
His armies will therefore die of inanition, or their operations will be thwarted for lack of munitions. England and Germany
She had confessed to an awful inanition, and had suggested things to eat, till the fact that other people were already sitting down to dine, having had tea, became absolutely unbearable. Daisy's Aunt
The fact that by animal experiment, for instance, in inanition, their appearance in large numbers in the blood can be produced. Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological
The meeting, after this exultant outburst, got slower and slower, and threatened to expire of inanition. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule
He lay supine, trying not to clench a muscle, seeking to force his surrender to inanition; but he could not get sleep though he implored his soul for it, prayed God for it. In a Little Town
He felt his flesh go grey, he was heavy with a corpse-like inanition, he did not exist, if the time passed unfulfilled. The Rainbow
Day after day he lay in an extremity of weakness that was pitiable to witness; and ever, as time went on, seemed sinking slowly from sheer inanition and exhaustion. Wee Wifie
Normoblasts are found almost invariably in all severe anæmias that are the result of trauma, inanition or organic disease of some kind. Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological
Faith had not quite reached the fainting point, though she was near it from mere inanition. Say and Seal, Volume II
Upon which the speaker, allowing her eyes to close definitively, took on the appearance of gentle inanition which characterised nine-tenths of her fellow-voyagers, ranged side by side in their steamer-chairs along the deck. A Bookful of Girls
The young gentleman was very lavish of his powers of pleasing, loaded Jane with flippant compliments, devoured confectionary with high relish, and chattered most flippantly in the most approved style of fashionable inanition. Madame Roland, Makers of History
There was nothing in him, however, to keep that feeling alive, and it had gradually died of inanition. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius
Rev. Henry Kinglake, in his "History of the Crimea," says she brought a priceless reinforcement of brain power to the nation at a time when the brains of Englishmen had given signs of inanition. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II
It was called The True Woman, but soon died of inanition and inherent weakness of constitution. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
The social system, in their view, may suffer quite as much from plethora as from inanition. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
The Tonghak rebellion, which Chinese troops were originally sent to quell, had died of inanition before they landed. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
Absorptions in general are increased by inanition; hence the use of evacuations in the cure of ulcers. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
They may permit themselves to die of inanition. The Blue Germ
They did not want to live at peace; for peace signified to them a state of craven inanition. Lewis and Clark Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
A persistence in the same management would probably terminate fatally in from six to twelve months more, from chronic gastritis, and inanition. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say
Moreover, this astute statesman seems to have apprehended that if the cause of the Southern Court were not actually opposed, it would die of inanition, and he therefore employed all his influence to preserve peace. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
These weak convulsions, as they are occasioned by the disagreeable sensation of faintness from inanition, are symptoms of great general debility, and thence frequently precede the general convulsions of the act of dying. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
We have gotten "First-namey" and have frankly decided that in order to keep our cleverness from dying of inanition, we will practice on each other. Letters of a Dakota Divorcee
Recently, analogous observations have been made on a man who died of inanition after a fast of thirty-five days. Creative Evolution
The condition of England one of the most ominous ever seen in this world: Full of wealth in every kind, yet dying of inanition. Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
Used to the sight of famine, he thought inanition would break the spirit without injuring the health.  Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster
But probably no part of the subject is of more interest than that which relates to the association of inanition with hysteria. Fasting Girls Their Physiology and Pathology
Every species is as prolific as it can be compatibly with the development of its individuals; and the deaths that ensue from inanition, disease, violence, present a stupefying scene. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative
Pique, and petty jealousies, and miserable heart-burnings, and "just pride," die of inanition there, and heart meets heart in love, because in Christ. Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians
Astræa relinquished it first; and although I dawdled over it every day out of sheer inanition, it only yielded me a sort of excuse for silence. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851
Already the London Society for promoting Constitutional Information, which had died of inanition in 1784, had come to life again before the close of the year 1791. William Pitt and the Great War
That a state of inanition exists in Miss Fancher is not to be doubted. Fasting Girls Their Physiology and Pathology
Yet even man still suffers outrageously by violence, disease, inanition; the notion that "Malthus's Law" no longer holds of civilised man is a foolish delusion. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative
No town in the universe can be duller; because, from its quintessential dulness, there is but one step to total inanition. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 460 Volume 18, New Series, October 23, 1852
And yet, even worse than this languorous inanition is the active policy of those who despise everything contemporary or native, and substitute sciolism for catholicity, contempt for analysis. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions
For, truth to tell, my wretched purse is In its last stage of inanition, And not a single coin disburses: A cobweb's over it, and in it— That Spider Want there loves to spin it. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
Five-tenths or one-half appeared to be the extreme loss of weight in inanition which the body could endure without death resulting. Fasting Girls Their Physiology and Pathology
But the truth is that the old feeling of blind unconditional homage to the sovereign was dying out; it was dying of inanition and old age and natural decay. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I
These cases go on from bad to worse; the horse constantly and rapidly loses in condition, becomes very much emaciated, the eyes are hollow and lusterless, and death occurs from inanition. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
As the concierge had said, he was perishing from inanition, and the physician we called in assured us that only the most constant attention would save his life. Esmeralda
Such dies of inanition—the sooner that its object is out of the way, and absence in time will conquer it. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
An insane person suffering from acute mania also resists inanition badly, but one the subject of melancholia often endures the total deprivation of aliment for a long time. Fasting Girls Their Physiology and Pathology
I chewed that mixture of bread, dust, and tobacco, but I could not swallow it, and gave it all masticated to one of my young brothers, who had fallen from inanition. Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.
Many of the literary institutes and lecture societies are either dying from inanition or are content with a course of lectures of a poor description. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2
And, whatever has been said of speculators at Richmond, they were far less culpable than these, their chiefs; for, without the arch-priests of greed, speculation would have died from inanition. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
And men may be over-disciplined, so that their impulses die away from inanition. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
"That" was everything, at this moment, to his long inanition, and the effect, as if she had suddenly and perversely mocked him, was to press the spring of a protest. The Finer Grain
It survived until 1905, when it also died of inanition, to be succeeded after a few years by the present Gargoyle of varying merit. The University of Michigan
I had no notion of running the risk of starving myself, having had sufficient experience of the uncomfortable sensations accompanying inanition when I was shut up in the mill. Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures
For a brief space the maimed and dying body might writhe with final strength; the quivering arms strike fierce, spasmodic blows; but no nourishment could come—the end must be death—and death from inanition! Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
“I’ll tell you what it is: if we don’t get something to eat soon, I for one shall die of inanition,” exclaimed Billy. The Three Admirals
The Government had gone out at last, more from inanition than over any definite question of policy; and we were going to the country to face what is paradoxically termed "the music." The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton
A gentlemen's government can escape death by inanition only in so far as it serves the material interest of its class, as contrasted with the underlying population from which the class draws its livelihood. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation
Notwithstanding the spoonfuls of milk and sugared water that were forced into their mouths, and the sucking-bottle that was used more or less in spite of the prohibition, they were dying of inanition. The Nabob, Volume 1
The war would languish for lack of funds, through sheer inanition it would flicker out, and the money of the world would flow into the treasuries of America. Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
Then stillness was with her again, and inanition. The Coast of Chance
Repeated failure gradually benumbs hope and willpower and effort, like some ghoulish vampire sucking away a man's life-blood till he faint and die from very inanition. Lords of the North
By a simile it might be said that what so falls under the caption of "superstition" in such a case is subject to decay by inanition. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation
Sage had always been an active man, and he couldn't idle any day wholly away in inanition, but walked every day to the limit of his strength. Chapters from My Autobiography
These unfortunate little beings are condemned to perish from inanition and bad treatment. Plain Facts for Old and Young
The truth is, you have so persistently suppressed your higher self that it is dying of inanition; you'll soon have no higher self left at all. The Farringdons
You looked through to stimulate the romance in your starved soul and save it from death by inanition, because if romance died, then indeed the Outer Life at Hillard House would be no longer bearable. The Heather-Moon
So she expressed herself, while the company watched the encounter with a look of refreshed inanition. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II)
"I think the case against her will soon die of inanition." The Holladay Case A Tale
Or was it the blood of military forebears asserting itself after many years of inanition? Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army
Whence impelled or whither, or by what volition; Borne now here, now thither, in blind inanition. The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems
The operation should be done before inanition has made serious inroads. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
Even if you were bored," she rejoined, "the inanition was probably good for you. The Fruit of the Tree
As Conward's guest he could not quarrel, and his fear of over-stepping the mark if he engaged in discussion induced a silence which might easily have been mistaken for mental inanition. The Cow Puncher
He had a lawyer's perception of the values of words as words, and through extended practice with Mrs. Hilliard excelled in that deft juggling of pregnant trifles without which Platonic friendships must die of inanition. The Henchman
Some minds, of course, sink into inanition if an outward supply of nutriment is withheld. The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers
This is explained by the trickling of liquified food from the esophageal reservoir into the stomach as the spasm intermittently relaxes, this occurring usually before a serious state of inanition supervenes. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
"I am quite well, on the contrary; but I was dying of inanition in this big empty house, and I suppose I haven't got the boredom out of my system yet!" The Fruit of the Tree
While, under the oppression of an ignorant paternalism, unhappy Spain suffered from inanition, she was tended by a physician who tried to cure her malady by phlebotomy. The Age of the Reformation
It was very doubtful, under the circumstances in which we were placed, if we should have time to die of inanition. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
For the pain is a two-edged sword, and imbrues the breast of the pedagogue even while it bleeds the pupil to inanition. Lore of Proserpine
Slavery in the North had died through inanition, and during the eighteenth century in the South also slavery seemed in process of extinction. The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict
After this, there was a period of inanition, in this art as in all others, while the pseudo-prophets awaited the ending of the world. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
Bruin in winter-time fondly sucking his own paws, loses flesh; and love, feeding upon itself, dies of inanition. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country
Many, in an intoxication aggravated by inanition, had fallen near the flames, which reached them, and put an end to their lives. History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812
He is a really drunken man: we see it in the comatose fall of the limbs, in the drooping features, the languid inanition of the arms. Donatello, by Lord Balcarres
By the year 1790, therefore, slavery in the North had either died of inanition, or had been rendered illegal by the action of State legislatures, and the chapter was closed. The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict
It is the experience of a waking inanition savouring of Buddha and the divine. Certain Personal Matters
As the animal dies of inanition if fed on but one kind of food, however congenial, yet lives if he has all in succession, so is it with complex man. Autumn Leaves Original Pieces in Prose and Verse
They had not basely deserted their colours; it was cold and inanition which had separated them from their columns. History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812
Since 1878 the lion has been lying down with the lamb, and the Parkes-Robertson Coalition Government has had to raise a powerless opposition to keep itself from death by inanition. Town Life in Australia
The short walk to the hotel, where Kenneth was waiting to go to breakfast with the president's party, came to an end, and the social amenities died of inanition. Empire Builders
They walked as fast as they could during the day, till they reached us in a deplorable state of weakness and inanition. History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.
As writes a high authority, "the effects of casual repletion are less prejudicial, and more easily corrected, than those of inanition." Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
But for ducks and the duck hunter the lighthouse family would die of inanition. Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884
Even the faint sigh choked before it rose to his lips,—both manhood and hope were so dead with inanition; yet a life's failure went in it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
It rests on a great law of derivation, true in mind as in the body; that inanition and comparative loss of one set of powers necessarily follows a too habitual activity of a different set. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy
The man is quiet from inanition and nervous tension. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863
And even observing them all we may be just as far from conversation as before; how often among English people, through shyness or otherwise, it simply faints from inanition. The Education of Catholic Girls
And the secretary tenderly pronounced the society's formula for such occasions: "There is no inanition in an initiation." Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
For fuel is the life of modern naval war; it is the food of the ship; without it the modern monsters of the deep die of inanition. The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future
Intoxication from common food after fatigue and inanition. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
But Nevil's sense of duty needed constant galvanising, lest it die of inanition. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India
Was the Church, were the people, to die of inanition? The Secret Chamber at Chad
Other microbes, like those of cholera and plague, emigrate from the lands where they are endemic, like a horde of Tartars, and after slaying all who are susceptible disappear from inanition. Outspoken Essays
With justice on both sides, abuses die of pure inanition. Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future
But these new motions are never generated by that pain, which arises from defect of stimulus, as from hunger, thirst, cold, or inanition, with all those pains, which are termed nervous. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
The offending work is now left to expire of inanition, as it were. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character
If the lymphatic system is impeded by underfeeding or inanition of the nerve-cells, how can any one with common sense expect such a system to be in perfect working order and harmony? Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration
To the ordinary observer it must have seemed such a weakling as was certain to perish from inanition in the first few months of its struggle for existence in the world of journalism. William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist
To flog into life a passion near dead of inanition was Grimbal’s disgusting task. Children of the Mist
In Dublin he felt it dying daily of the inanition of inferior company. The Function of the Poet and Other Essays
Is of opinion that deceased came by his death from inanition, or want of food. The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines
The choice is an all-important one; for, as a recent writer puts it, "In this choice, the personality chooses or rejects itself, takes itself for its life-task, or dies of inanition and inertia." Rudolph Eucken : a philosophy of life
He soon departed and the Redmayne inquiry, begun with much zest and determination, gradually faded away and perished of inanition. The Red Redmaynes
As if those miserable exhausted provinces were to be cured of inanition by phlebotomy, while Cossim Ali was racking it above, the Company were drawing off all its nutriment below. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12)
If he could not seize the granaries of the watershed, the Confederacy would die of inanition. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873
In Raucourt the distress was terrible; men fell in the ranks from sheer inanition. The Downfall
The fear of inanition was only a wayward pretence, after all, and her strong nature cried out for further tests to prove its fortitude and its power of dissimulation. Leonora
The entire solar system is gradually losing its internal heat, and must inevitably die of sheer inanition. A Trip to Venus
I Midas The condition of England one of the most ominous ever seen in this world: Full of wealth in every kind, yet dying of inanition; Workhouses, in which no work cane be done. Past and Present
They swear "Free Competition" Leads to Trade inanition: That I'm a superstition, A cruel vampire craze. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 30, 1891
Some of the men were drunk, others had not been able to secure even a morsel of bread and were sinking from inanition; again there had been no distribution of rations. The Downfall
That put the daemons into their right place, and by and by they vanished, dropped out, died of sheer inanition and neglect. The Jesus of History
It is surprising how soon a desire will die of inanition if it be never fed. The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga
In the second mine he was so exhausted with inanition and fatigue, that his memory utterly failed him; he could not recollect a single word of German. The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars
She died at last of weariness and intellectual inanition. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II
It was never seriously taken up again, and, though never explicitly abandoned, died a natural death from inanition, somewhat to the relief of Miss Barrett, who had come to recognise its impracticability. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)
The conversation nearly died of inanition several times, and at last it actually did die, and the quartette gazed in painful silence at its corpse. The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories
Indolence and inanition accounted largely for her lack of strength. A Young Girl's Wooing
There now came into prominence those secret societies which, under a shifting variety of names, continued to scheme and to menace until the near and visible end of the war effected their death by inanition. Abraham Lincoln, Volume II
They must make some move or they would become ridiculous, and their revolution would die and their confederacy 242 would dissolve from sheer inanition. Abraham Lincoln, Volume I
"All the bright boys and girls in New England," and "'The Dial' dying of inanition!" Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing but ignorance and inanition stand in the way of utilization of waste roof spaces. Architecture and Democracy
Never allow yourself to be taken in the act of inanition. The Man Who Laughs
He looked very wise and called it "predatory inanition." The Penalty
He was half dead with inanition, and was conveyed speechless and helpless to his home in the Rue de Grammont, there, presumably, to be nursed back to health by Madame his wife. Castles in the Air
We heard of their dying by companies from mere inanition, and lying stretched in the road to the Portage, whither they were striving to drag their exhausted frames. Wau-bun The Early Day in the Northwest
The government of the Confederation was dying of inanition, America was flooded with depreciated currency, both state and Continental. George Washington: Farmer
Long lethargy and intellectual inanition brooded over Christian Europe. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859
Hellenism was thus expiring from its own inanition, when the inevitable avalanche overwhelmed it from without. The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey
I know not what stoical philosopher—Atticus, I believe, a prey to a malady which he thought incurable,—had resolved to die of inanition. The Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or the Real Robinson Crusoe
A time of inanition followed until the great period of road travel set in, when it became the most important centre between London and Salisbury. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
When a play died of inanition, old age, or—as was sometimes the case—before it was born, it was Josie Fifer who laid out its remains and followed it to the grave. Cheerful—By Request
But with him indecency is a disease, and he speaks unclean things from perfect inanition. Famous Reviews
The confederation might still subsist, although its Government were reduced to such a degree of inanition as to paralyze the nation, to cause internal anarchy, and to check the general prosperity of the country. Democracy in America — Volume 1
It may be reasonably inferred that our baby will first expire of inanition, as being the frailest member of our circle; and that our twins will follow next in order. David Copperfield
Unfortunately, the mother succumbed after ninety hours, and in a month the intrauterine child died from inanition, but the child of extrauterine gestation thrived. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
"Well, who is; but who has good music, and amuses people on Sunday evenings, when the whole of New York is dying of inanition." The Age of Innocence
Even if the three Powers do not remove these gentlemen, their absurd and disastrous government must perish by itself of inanition A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
It was a weak provincial affair that soon died of inanition. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
Perhaps it means that this vast organisation is effete—perhaps, after all, we are dying of inanition, and yet—yet it should not be, for we have the people still…. The Slave of the Lamp
It is quite possible that, being an operation of a serious nature, it is never performed early enough, the patient being fatally weakened by inanition. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
The confederation might still subsist, although its government were reduced to such a degree of inanition as to paralyze the nation, to cause internal anarchy, and to check the general prosperity of the country. American Institutions and Their Influence
In a manner which plainly bad symptoms portends Of that Annual blue fit, so distressing to friends; A fit which, tho' lasting but one short edition, Leaves the patient long after in sad inanition. The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes
His almost morbid appetite for any over-scoring of time, well-nigh extinct from long inanition, threw the flush of its revival into his face and his talk. A Passionate Pilgrim
The present government, my dear George, will expire from inanition. Endymion
Unfortunately the patient suffered with bronchitis, and coughing caused the sutures to give way; the patient died of inanition on the twenty-third day. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
While the pros and cons were being considered, the old lady died of absolute inanition. Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason Corner Folks
I'm so faint with inanition," Van replied to Mrs. Grendon, "that—like the traveller in the desert, isn't it?—I only make out, as an oasis or a mirage, a sweet green rustling blur. The Awkward Age
He was disappointed that Clarence would touch nothing, and declared that inanition was the preparation for ghost-seeing or imagining.  Chantry House
Its charm, I fancy, is greatest to those in whom the natural man, deprived in early life of his proper aliment, grows sickly and pale, and perishes at last of inanition. Birds in Town and Village
In the first three gospels the aspect of humiliation, degradation, inanition, suffering, is prominent in the references to the Crucifixion. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII
Yet the melancholy fact is that several—indeed, all that have been started—have died of inanition; that is, of the absence of jokes. Reflections and Comments 1865-1895
The new ever comes before the old is all eaten up; or if it be delayed even beyond that time, it comes before the hunger reaches inanition. Expositions of Holy Scripture
It was promising for a while, but it died of inanition in the middle of the second stick. The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England A Tale of the Great Invasion
Hunger is appeased, the painful feeling of inanition ceases, when the stomach is filled. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2
As I left Memorial Hall after the exercises this morning, Emerson's words came into my mind— 'Give me truth, For I am tired of surfaces And die of inanition.' Plays
He meant to appear just a little faint, and endured quietly the first twenty-four hours of inanition. The Old Man in the Corner
It doesn't particularly matter when the building we call our Parish Church was first erected; and, if it did, the world would have to die of literary inanition before it got the exact date. Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston
The Portuguese Monarchy was dead; and the causes of death, as disclosed by the autopsy, were moral bankruptcy and intellectual inanition. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914)
He came out of the chest, and although faint from inanition and trembling with weakness, he felt his way in the direction of the trap-door by means of the rope. An Antarctic Mystery
It died of inanition: its force was spent. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17
If Sheridan, indeed, had substituted some of his own wit for that which he took away, the inanition that followed the operation would have been much less sensibly felt. Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01
These seats are situated on each side of the building, at the rear, and in the gallery; and they will be dying of inanition by and bye if somebody doesn't come to the rescue. Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston
I was jarred out of my inanition by a terrific shock. The Spirit of 1906
Out of poverty and solitude, inanition and cold, your honest friar may rise at his will into a Mahomet's Paradise of luxurious analogies. Italian Hours
Starvation is agony during the first three days, apathy and inanition during the fourth and perhaps the fifth, and delirium from that time until the struggle ceases. History of the Donner Party, a Tragedy of the Sierra
At last, to Ernest's intense joy, the season began to show premonitory symptoms of collapsing from inanition. Philistia
Boredom whirls about in an idle dance, expiring in the agony of its inanition. Essays on Russian Novelists
The first project died of inanition; the second developed in another year into an actuality, which created more stir than the close of the opera house had done. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time
The following morning when I entered the larger attic I found that Mme. la Marquise had fainted from inanition. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Old James Zabel had seen his brother sinking rapidly from inanition; this their condition amply shows. Agatha Webb
There was silence, the silence of inanition, about him. Sisters
We feared she might sink from inanition at any moment. Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose
He sees a plain like swish-work, where knobs of granite act daisies; and where, at every fifty yards, some hapless bud or blossom is dying of inanition among the stones. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1
—In pursuing these speculations, said the dean conclusively, there is, however, the danger of perishing of inanition. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
He was so sick and faint with inanition that he felt as though he could not utter another word. Herb of Grace
"I suppose it would be impossible now—I should die of apathy and inanition." The Witch of Prague
"You don't understand—the Lady—Allegra—" Well, I suppose I must have fainted from sheer inanition, and so Indiman explained it himself that next morning. The Gates of Chance
Do they merely perish of inanition in the presence of an unaccustomed food, which revolts their appetite, or are they poisoned by the small quantity of honey absorbed with the early mouthfuls? More Hunting Wasps
Fascination was an integral portion of Julia Vickers's nature; admiration was all she lived for: and even in a convict ship, with her husband at her elbow, she must flirt, or perish of mental inanition. For the Term of His Natural Life
You may come here and have a good time—if you can get it; she won't object; or you may die of solitude and inanition; she'd never know it. April Hopes
The length of time that he sat there was so remarkable as to raise that interval of inanition to the rank of a feat. A Laodicean : a Story of To-day
And in this state of utter dejection, inanition, and collapse, with Blink asleep on his feet, he was driven back to Hampstead. The Burning Spear
At first there was faint cheering; but it sounded like the echo of an echo, and soon died of inanition. Bob, Son of Battle
She has preserved his life at the expense of her own, giving him the whole of the pittance which her gaolers allowed her, and perishing herself of inanition. Burlesques
In the 'Gravilliers' section, two men were found dead with inanition.... The French Revolution - Volume 3
Upon my recovery, too, I felt very—oh, inexpressibly sick and weak, as if through long inanition. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
Touched her poor pale lips; and went tingling through her, like life and fiery elasticity, out of death by inanition! History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14
Notwithstanding the spoonfuls of milk, of sweetened water, which are forced down their throats, notwithstanding the feeding-bottle employed now and then, though against orders, they perish of inanition. The Nabob
But, when Carey landed, rationalism in Germany and Denmark, and the Carnatic wars between the English and French, had reduced the Coast Mission to a state of inanition. Life of William Carey
Like some beings who dwell in the grosser world, might not he die of inanition for want of feeding abnormal and disappointed cravings? Louis Lambert
Leave it to die of inanition," said B——-; "the first step is to arouse public opinion. Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
About thirty-six hours after being bitten, the Mole dies during the night and certainly not from inanition, for there are still half a dozen live Cicadae in the receptacle, as well as a few Beetles. The Life of the Spider
At the moment Mr. Thackeray presented himself, I was thoroughly faint from inanition, having eaten nothing since a very slight breakfast, and it was then seven o'clock in the evening. Life of Charlotte Bronte — Volume 2
The moment civilization is wise enough to remove the constraints and prohibitions which now hinder the release of inner energies, most of the larger evils of society will perish of inanition and malnutrition. The Pivot of Civilization
She is dying a frightful death—of inanition. The Lily of the Valley
Again, hunger and thirst are inanitions of the body, ignorance and folly of the soul; and food is the satisfaction of the one, knowledge of the other. The Republic
He might die not of his wound, but of inanition, if I did not succeed in giving him suitable food, fairly plentiful and dispensed at fairly frequent intervals.  The Life of the Spider
Quench the desire, and the deeds will die of inanition. The Soul of the Far East
In the West monarchy had to struggle with municipal institutions to prevent them from becoming too powerful; in Russia, it had to struggle with them to prevent them from committing suicide or dying of inanition. Russia
If it cannot realise money, the Royal Authority is as good as dead; dead of that surest and miserablest death, inanition. The French Revolution
I was now nearly sick from inanition, having taken so little the day before. Jane Eyre
Such an appetite astonishes me, after I have seen the Crab Spider, that no less ardent watcher, refuse the Bees whom I give her and allow herself to die of inanition The Life of the Spider
Pronounced mental disorder occurs rarely in tuberculosis, according to Ziehen, and leads either to melancholia or to hallucinatory states of excitement, resembling the deliria of exhaustion or inanition. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10
The decayed and drowsy voice of the loafer, the agreeable stink of beer-dregs, threw a spell of inanition over Babbitt. Babbitt
Constitutionalists in a body, as we often predicted, do now recede from the Mother Society, and become Feuillans; threatening her with inanition, the rank and respectability being mostly gone. The French Revolution
I perceived that I was sickening from excitement and inanition; neither meat nor drink had passed my lips that day, for I had taken no breakfast.  Jane Eyre
And then suddenly his mental inanition was at an end and his thoughts were wide and brave again. The Research Magnificent
The inanition delirium of tuberculosis resembles that of carcinosis and malaria. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10
Of argument, they died into inanition, the Church revivified itself into pristine florid vigor,—became once more a living ship of the desert, and invincibly bore you over stock and stone. Life of John Sterling
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