How To Use Apoplexy In A Sentence
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-- They lived together; and when Dr. Grant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week, they still lived together; for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20_000L. any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansfield, whose character and manners could authorise a hope of the domestic happiness she had there learnt to estimate, or put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head.
Mansfield Park
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Stroke what used to be called "apoplexy" is probably the best known of such injuries, something that touches nearly every family, since it's the number one long-term disability in the U.S. Like Paul, many stroke survivors end up with aphasia-- and face not only the challenge of re-learning language but also redefining their relationship with loved ones, which may include new obstacles and fewer words.
Diane Ackerman: What My Husband and Gabrielle Giffords Share
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You really should restrain yourself, too much excitement in a man of your age could lead to apoplexy, that is if you are not already there?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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A divine justice is meted out; Dr. Grant, who begins by liking his goose tender, ends by bringing on “apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week”.
The Common Reader
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Apoplexy is no longer to be feared, but phthisis is there.
Les Miserables
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James, who was about thirty-five years of age and of quiet and sober habits, had died from apoplexy.
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Suppose such deposits, composed of albumen and fibrin, prepared in the liver should be deposited in the lining membranes of veins leading to the heart, and by some other chemical action this accumulated mass should come loose from the veins, would we not expect what is commonly called clots enter the heart, and shut off the arteries, supplying the lungs, stop the further circulation of blood and cause instantaneous death called heart failure, apoplexy and so on?
Philosophy of Osteopathy
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It would have given the National Trust an apoplexy, or a surfeit, or one of those other things they were always dying of way back then.
DEAD BEAT
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That will be the fundamental job description of the Motion Picture Association of America's new chair: somehow keeping these seven demanding people happy, or, absent that, minimizing their apoplexy.
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I have chosen to retain my informer’s phrase, not being able justly to determine whether it is a corruption of the word apoplexy, as my friend Mr. Oldbuck supposes, or the name of some peculiar disorder incidental to those who have concern in the courts of law, as many callings and conditions of men have diseases appropriate to themselves.
Redgauntlet
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They lived together; and when Dr. Grant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week, they still lived together; for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir-apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20,000, any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at
Mansfield Park
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He was "inducted" on the 24th of April, 1649, and there some four weeks later he died, suddenly it would seem, from heat-apoplexy brought on by his exertions during a pilgrimage.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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`If you use so much red, missus, you'll look as though you're having an apoplexy.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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I have chosen to retain my informer's phrase, not being able justly to determine whether it is a corruption of the word apoplexy, as my friend Mr. Oldbuck supposes, or the name of some peculiar disorder incidental to those who have concern in the courts of law, as many callings and conditions of men have diseases appropriate to themselves.
Redgauntlet
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He barreled into office last fall and immediately drove reformers and critics to the brink of apoplexy with his abrasive time-to-get-tough rhetoric and his vows to wage ruthless war on gangs.
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You know what to do for a child in a fit, for an alderman in an apoplexy, for a girl that has fainted, for a woman in hysterics, for a leg that is broken, for an arm that is out of joint, for fevers of every color, for the sailor's rheumatism, and the tailor's cachexy.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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Apoplexy, whose adjective form, apoplectic, came to mean “red-faced with rage,” is now called “stroke” like apoplexy, from the Greek plessien, “to strike” because this third largest killer in the United States was nothing to treat lightly.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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Slightly arear of them: Mr. Louis Slupsky; Mr. Samuel Kahn, with a tinge the color of apoplexy in his face; and Miss Sylvette de Long, her face thrust forward as if she heard melody.
Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It
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The Sovereigns, still in apoplexy over the betrayal, promised their favor to the man who brought the Traitor back alive.
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But she wouldn't shuffle off this mortal coil before she sent a few more judges and prosecutors to the edge of apoplexy.
EVERY SECRET THING
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Setting aside for the time being post-modern notions of "best" or "better" (no doubt legions of MFAs are spitting out their Ticonderoga No. 2s in apoplexy), it seems reasonably clear that it isn't the best American book of the year, not by quite a bit.
Historical Fiction
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The idea that Scotland's wild salmon should be replaced by an artificial equivalent has created apoplexy among environmental groups, neighbouring river owners and angling bodies alike.
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Soon after that early period he became subject to vertigoes, which he thought indicative of a tendency to apoplexy; and was occasionally bled rather profusely, which only increased the symptoms.
Crabbe
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Underlying their apoplexy will be the pervasive American fear that, minus the maximum number of mnemonic devices, anything can and will be forgotten.
Peter Mehlman: Jingo
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Gotta say, I had the same reaction to the “death panels” sentence — the feeling that she was twitting because she could, with a wink and a smile at the inevitable apoplexy of her opponents.
Sarah Palin’s Wall Street Journal Health Care Op-Ed. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
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On more than one occasion, he is said to have frothed at the mouth in a screaming rage, and is even known to have chewed the straw on the floor in apoplexy.
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About two o'clock in the day he complained of a feeling of faintness, said he felt ill and should not recover; and in a few minutes was insensible with symptoms of ingravescent apoplexy.
John Lothrop Motley. a memoir — Volume 3
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And Aunt Nina would have apoplexy if she knew her 'darlin' pet 'was going into that part of town!
The Witness
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But his methods are so boneheaded and his argument so incoherent, it's impossible to tell what he wants to do besides humiliate his actors, insult lesbians and drive his defenders into a state of apoplexy.
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Unionism reacted to their demands with anger verging on apoplexy.
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He set every stone with his own hands and on coming ashore at the end of June, he complained of illness and died of apoplexy on July 6.
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We present two cases of pituitary apoplexy and visual loss after major surgery.
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Objective:To investigate the curative effect of tri-tongue-acus combined with rehabilitation training on supranuclear paralysis after apoplexy.
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Conclusion: skull sutures acupuncture combined with body acupuncture is an effective therapy on spastic paralysis of apoplexy.
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It is clearly a massive apoplexy.
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He was stricken with apoplexy and died the next day.
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What is it with these people that having their worldview questioned results in apoplexy?
Matthew Yglesias » Ghost Busters As Rightwing Agitprop
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Imagine our apoplexy at being charged for travelling 500 miles up and down the A1 at rush hour when we had never been near the place - all because some clever criminal had fiddled with the little black box on our car.
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This sentiment almost induces apoplexy in our authors.
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In the whirl of fugitives an old senator raised his hands to his bald head, purple with apoplexy, and collapsed against the marble seat behind him.
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He was on the verge of apoplexy, sprays of spittle, sweat, and tears erupting from his face.
EVERVILLE
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The tutti resources of a gigantic orchestra are thrown into apoplexy for many minutes, and it is a kind of writing (as Tim Ashley's programme note pointed out) that made an early critic speak of ‘an atrocity’.
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Will they really be comfortable with a cozy rest-your-feet-on-any-chair type of living room, or will Mrs. Redford have apoplexy the first time Uncle David plunks his beer can down on the walnut end table?
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The Dutch left Yogjakarta and I heard that the general who led out that military column from Yogja died of apoplexy on the way - it was too much for him.
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Conclusion: through analyzing and studying ancient and modern literature, summarized high frequency recipes of curing apoplexy.
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He almost suffered apoplexy when he saw the variations that had been wrought.
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Having thrown the dictionary into the nearest skip in a rage of apoplexy at its inadequacy, however, I resolve to plough on nonetheless.
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Although the number of strikes is still at an all-time low, the fact that they are rising, and impacting on virtually every area of public services has sent the political establishment into apoplexy.
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Objective : To observe the early rehabilitation of dysphagy resulted from acute cerebral apoplexy through train.
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They called the phenomenon "apoplexy," a Greek word that translates to being violently struck down, as if from a club.
HowStuffWorks Daily Feed
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Occurs the correlation factor includes: Nerve function damage degree, apoplexy spot and so on.
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Throwing one of the strops for which he was famous, Michelangelo returned home to Florence in a state of apoplexy.
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A lottery-gambler will count the stabs on a dead body, the drops of blood from a decollated head, the passengers in an overturned coach, the wrinkles in the forehead of a new-born child, the gasps of a person struck by apoplexy, the day of the month and the hour and the minute of his death, the _scudi_ lost by a friend, the forks stolen by a thief, anything and everything, to play them in the lottery.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860
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The association between hypertension and a ‘hardening’ of the pulse and apoplexy has been recognised for hundreds of years.
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Patients who have recently had major surgery are at increased risk of pituitary apoplexy.
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I have until this year been a champion refusenik of the tournament, a money-grubby, on-dragging, mobile-phone-touting travesty that traditionally brings me out in a nasty case of apoplexy.
Why cricket's World Cup underdogs have knocked me for six
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His apoplexy, however appropriate to the repulsiveness of its catalyst, is surely fueled by powerlessness.
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And rather conveniently, there is every chance that the drive to get to one will have put you in just the right mood: apoplexy.
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This has the eventual effect of sending someone into apoplexy if it remains unanswered long enough.
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In modern usage, apoplexy and stroke are synonymous terms, referring to sudden and lasting impairment of brain function caused by obstruction of or haemorrhage from the cerebral blood vessels.
