"Gastric" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... strong smell of roasted meat saluted my nostrils, causing a very unphilosophical pleasure to the olfactory nerves, a pleasure which acted very directly, too, on the gastric juices of the stomach. In plain English, I had very sensible evidence that it was not enough to transport a man to the monikin region, send him to parliament, and keep him on nuts for a week, to render him exclusively ethereal, I found it was vain "to kick ...
— The Monikins • J. Fenimore Cooper
... oats, one canary-seed, one clover, and one beet alone came up! Now I should have not cared swearing that the beet would not have been killed, and I should have fully expected that the clover would have been. These seeds, however, were kept for three days in moist pellets, damp with gastric juice, after being ejected, which would have helped to ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin
... sentiments have their course in the open air in the middle of woods they greatly facilitate the secretion of the gastric juices. So the nymphs as well as the fauns did full justice to the olives, the cucumbers, and the slices of sausage before sitting down to the tables. By the unanimous voice of the military and clergy, worthily represented ...
— The Grandee • Armando Palacio Valds
... called it gastric fever, but no one was to hear of it lest there should be an alarm; and it was too late to change the place of the bazaar, though it is so sad to have all ...
— The Three Brides • Charlotte M. Yonge
... is reckless of its gastric juices. I shall find you at home when I come in to-night, I daresay. I think I may dine in ...
— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon
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