"Blood vessel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... source of his greatest happiness, her loss was the occasion of his greatest sorrow. A year after their marriage she burst a blood vessel while singing. The following extract from a letter of Poe's to a friend will explain how this misfortune ...
— Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, • Sherwin Cody
... man of them but knew there was something quare about the ould castle. The neighbours had it, that the squire's ould grandfather, as good a gintlenlan—God be with him—as I heer'd, as ever stood in shoe-leather, used to keep walkin' about in the middle iv the night, ever sinst he bursted a blood vessel pullin' out a cork out iv a bottle, as you or I might be doin', and will too, plase God—but that doesn't signify. So, as I was sayin', the ould squire used to come down out of the frame, where his picthur was hung up, and to break the bottles and ...
— The Purcell Papers - Volume I. (of III.) • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
... loudly to her husband, "Ricardo, Ricardo, por amor de su alma, manda por el medico, she has burst a blood vessel Maria is dying!" ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott
... Court," warned Charlie Webster. "You'll bust a blood vessel. Cool off! There's no use talkin' about GETTING him. Whoever it was that planted these dog-buttons around town was slick enough to cover up his tracks. We'll never find out who did it. It's happened before, and the result is always the same. ...
— Quill's Window • George Barr McCutcheon
... and distress in Carnarvon Castle, for the young Alphonso broke a blood vessel in a violent fit of coughing, and for some hours his life was in ...
— The Lord of Dynevor • Evelyn Everett-Green
... in some part of the body, and that a return to good health involves treatment for the normal adjustment of the skeleton; he asserts, though any luxation may be only partial, it may cause pressure at some point upon a blood vessel, or a nerve of which the patient may be unconscious, and thus be a barrier to the ...
— The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing - A Manual of Ready Reference • Joseph Triemens
... aggravate the case, and pleurisy and consumption may occur. The violent coughing may permanently damage the heart. Rupture of the lung tissue happens from the same cause, and paralysis sometimes follows breaking of a blood vessel in the brain. But in the vast majority of cases in children over two years old no ...
— The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) • Various
... question more to ask; but he put it with a faltering voice: "Where's your mother?" "Oh, she, too, died but a short time since; she broke a blood vessel in a fit of passion at a New England peddler." There was a drop of comfort, at least, in this intelligence. The honest man could contain himself no longer. He caught his daughter and her child in his arms. "I am your ...
— McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey
... encouraging the lad, who, thus emboldened, took courage and gave the squire the whole history of poor Jacob Dobbin's one moss-rose. He told him of the cripple's love for the plant, and how its one and only blossom had been rudely snatched away by the young squire, and how poor Jacob burst a blood vessel and ...
— The One Moss-Rose • P. B. Power |
