Events in vomiting are usually divided into preejection, ejection, and postejection phases (Fig. 11-1 3). The preejection phase is characterized by licking, salivation, pallor, and changes in visceral function such as tachycardia and the relaxation of the proximal stomach.

The view with the left should theoretically have been more extensive, that eye having greater altitude at the time, owing to the angle of repose of my head; but although that view gave a middle-ground of pale belly beyond the pubis, the breasts now didn't have the clarity of outline and the subtlety of texture of the previous survey: myopia gave just sufficient blur, after eighteen inches or so, to (ha!) cruden the edge and surface.

Tomorrow will be a scorcher, so carry water and use sunscreen if you're going out.

Tell us a good story, Rodney — one of your rorty ones. / Mr. Rodney shrivelled. / I fear, he murmured — I fear I am scarcely in the — er — rorty vein to-night.