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• Prescott reports a case of what he calls fatal colic from the lodgment of a chocolate-nut in the appendix; and Noyes relates an instance of death in a man of thirty-one attributed to the presence of a raisin-seed in the vermiform appendix. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
• Morgan with an expression of insolence such as might well warrant the belief that he held feud with all grangers and made their discomfiture, dislodgment, and extermination the chief business of his life. Trail's End
• They researched membrane's dust dislodgment and properties, such as electrical conductivity, combustion and fatigue resistance, which is made from all kinds of fiber materials.
• Bahama Islands had become a rendezvous for pirates, and a few years later, King George the First issued a proclamation for their dislodgment. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885
• the lodgment of the balloon in the tree
• The possession of power, even when greatly restrained, is such a fiery stimulant, that its lodgment in human hands is always perilous. Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828
• If it be low down the gullet, and other means fail, its dislodgment may sometimes be effected by dashing cold water on the spine, or vomiting may be induced by an emetic of sulphate of zinc Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
• But the floods of the wet season maintain an unceasing cataract to its dislodgment, and then, according to the legends of the blacks, it begins to “walk about.” Tropic Days
• -- In case of Choking, a violent slap with the open hand between the shoulders of the sufferer will often effect a dislodgment. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
• Migration or dislodgment of the balloons was found in two cases.