Even the fixed principles of vegetables, at least some of them, are injured by long decoction. The extractive matter, for instance, gradually absorbs oxygen from the atmosphere, and is converted into a substance nearly insipid and inert.

When a serious attempt was made upon Bonaparte's life by the explosion of an infernal machine, Fouché knew that the plot had been hatched and carried out by royalists […]

The old-school coach felt that his team's weak opponent had no business playing his strong team, so he decided to run up the score.

Our own observations—particularly in those experiments in which marked variations of the electrocardiogram during the hot-air bath were reduced or disappeared after application of a sympatheticolytic drug—often showed typical sympatheticotonic variations during the pyrexia and vagotonic variations after its completion (Fig. 2).