"inanition" (starvation) for a short period, but that, accordingly, the qualitative side of the nourishment becomes more important the longer the fever lasts. From Wordnik.com. [Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration] Reference
For that matter, it's a close cousin to inanition. From Wordnik.com. [Proust Questionnaire: Norman Mailer] Reference
It was better to let the affair die from inanition. From Wordnik.com. [Kahawa]
Thus, inanition in itself could not be the main cause of the disease. From Wordnik.com. [Christiaan Eijkman - Nobel Lecture] Reference
His early love affairs had a way of collapsing from inanition on his part. From Wordnik.com. [Funny as a Crutch] Reference
It is surprising how soon a desire will die of inanition if it be NEVER fed. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
And men may be over-disciplined, so that their impulses die away from inanition. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
The social system, in their view, may suffer quite as much from plethora as from inanition. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
They are eight degrees of self-inanition, and apparently eight stages on the way to nirvana. From Wordnik.com. [A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline] Reference
If he could not seize the granaries of the watershed, the Confederacy would die of inanition. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference
Here, the 83-year-old reflects on inanition, Anna Karenina, and Texas Hold 'Em. photograph by. From Wordnik.com. [Proust Questionnaire: Norman Mailer] Reference
There was nothing in him, however, to keep that feeling alive, and it had gradually died of inanition. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
It survived until 1905, when it also died of inanition, to be succeeded after a few years by the present. From Wordnik.com. [The University of Michigan] Reference
His was a darkness unbroken by a ray of thought or sensation, a dreamless inanition, a vast space of peace. From Wordnik.com. [When the Sleeper Wakes] Reference
In pursuing these speculations, said the dean conclusively, there is, however, the danger of perishing of inanition. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] Reference
The decayed and drowsy voice of the loafer, the agreeable stink of beer-dregs, threw a spell of inanition over Babbitt. From Wordnik.com. [Babbit] Reference
England is full of wealth, of multifarious produce, supply for human want in every kind; yet England is dying of inanition. From Wordnik.com. [Modernism and social life] Reference
That put the daemons into their right place, and by and by they vanished, dropped out, died of sheer inanition and neglect. From Wordnik.com. [The Jesus of History] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
After a great slaughter, or pestilence, the rising subsided from inanition, but in such a manner that all preferred death to life under such conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Theologico-Political Treatise] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Burlesques] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [David Copperfield] Reference
It has to be admitted that in America societies of the kind are commonly of few years and full of trouble, and that a certain inanition, if nothing worse, quickly comes upon them. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
We feared she might sink from inanition at any moment. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose] Reference
The present government, my dear George, will expire from inanition. From Wordnik.com. [Endymion] Reference
Frequently the engine stopped as if from sheer fatigue or inanition. From Wordnik.com. [Andersonville — Volume 4] Reference
Boredom whirls about in an idle dance, expiring in the agony of its inanition. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Russian Novelists] Reference
Hunger is appeased, the painful feeling of inanition ceases, when the stomach is filled. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
The following morning when I entered the larger attic I found that Mme. la Marquise had fainted from inanition. From Wordnik.com. [The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel] Reference
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