LETTUCE, n. An herb of the genus Lactuca, Wherewith, says that pious gastronome, Hengist Pelly, God has been pleased to reward the good and punish the wicked. For by his inner light the righteous man has discerned a manner of compounding for it a dressing to the appetency whereof a multitude of gustible condiments conspire, being reconciled and ameliorated with profusion of oil, the entire comestible making glad the heart of the godly and causing his face to shine. But the person of spiritual unworth is successfully tempted to the Adversary to eat of lettuce with destitution of oil, mustard, egg, salt and garlic, and with a rascal bath of vinegar polluted with sugar. Wherefore the person of spiritual unworth suffers an intestinal pang of strange complexity and raises the song.
Quotes about intestinal (15 Quotes)
Fat slips through the intestinal wall and into the bloodstream where it distributes the nutrients throughout the body. Olestra can't get through the wall, and it continues down the intestines and out the body.
He never really wavered. Obviously, when you've got a team that played for the national championship three years in a row hammering you, it takes some intestinal fortitude to stand up to that and play close to home where your family can see you play. Mike stood right in there all the way through this process.
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.
It's obvious to everybody what is necessary and what has to get done, ... What is less obvious is whether or not the company itself has the intestinal fortitude to do it and whether they have the bench strength to do it.
HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the esat of emotions and sentiments --a very pretty fancy which, however, is nothing but a survival of a once universal belief. It is now known that the sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid. The exact process by which a beefsteak becomes a feeling --tender or not, according to the age of the animal from which it was cut the successive stages of elaboration through which a caviar sandwich is transmuted to a quaint fancy and reappears as a pungent epigram the marvelous functional methods of converting a hard-boiled egg into religious contrition, or a cream-puff into a sigh of sensibility --these things have been patiently ascertained by M. Pasteur, and by him expounded with convincing lucidity. (See, also, my monograph, The Essential Identity of the Spiritual Affections and Certain Intestinal Gases Freed in Digestion --4to, 687 pp.) In a scientific work entitled, I believe, Delectatio Demonorum (John Camden Hotton, London, 1873) this view of the sentiments receives a striking illustration and for further light consult Professor Dam's famous treatise on Love as a Product of Alimentary Maceration.
His intestinal function has not returned to normal and we're taking the appropriate steps to make sure that it does.
His intestinal function still has not returned to normal. The only progress I have to report is that there doesn't seem to be any sign of an infection.
He woke up this morning complaining of lower intestinal problems and was taken by ambulance to the Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs for emergency medical attention.
He's got a level of intestinal fortitude that I don't know that I've ever seen before. A light went off in him that he had to take control of this game, and that's what he did.
We know this is not safe we know there are many common intestinal illnesses that can be transmitted by contact with the water.
Flu viruses are typically respiratory, but bird flu has been shown to attack intestinal tracts in animals as well. That affects the way pets can pass the virus to each other.
It's too hard to get to it's too far away. My guys get plane-sick when they come over those mountains, so we would have to wait 'til we get a team with a little bit more ... what's the word ... intestinal fortitude.
Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.
Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working.