Donovan's observations show that the early onset of acute hunger pain subsides after approximately twenty-four hours. He quotes one of his cases as telling him that feelings of acute hunger were followed by symptoms that included “a feeling of weakness and sinking and an insatiable thirst for cold water."

As the word implies the glarneys were glass marbles, but no ball out of an old mineral-water bottle was ever dignified by receiving the name, though such balls were not despised possessions, and had the rank of twoers.

They agreed to have no more family gatherings due to their father's neurasthenic presence.

She looked peaked and tired ever since he had volunteered for the army.