"Ptomaine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... more a sign of wickedness than stomach-ache is; it is a result of indigestion or ptomaine poisoning, and divorce is only a strong purge or an emetic, equally distressing and often ...
— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes
... Ptomaine (Gr. ptoma, a dead body). One of a class of animal bases or alkaloids formed in the putrefaction of ...
— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell
... Yes; I remember now, hearing from Mrs. Stanley just before she died herself, poor soul—ptomaine poisoning and a dirty cook, some people seem pursued by cooks, figuratively speaking, of course,—that her brother had lost all his money and died, and that Antony had gone abroad. We are told not to judge, and I don't, but it did seem to me that Mrs. Stanley ...
— Antony Gray,--Gardener • Leslie Moore
... what your calling, or your bent, If clergy or if laity, Fall into line. I'll be content And plume me on my gayety, If of the human file and rank I can make nine-tenths smile,—and thank. [Blank Page] PTOMAINE STREET ...
— Ptomaine Street • Carolyn Wells
... before the impending tragedy, and their faces paled a little; for nearly every man of the range dreads ptomaine poisoning more than the bite of a rattler. One can kill a rattler, and one is always warned of its presence; but one never can tell what dire suffering may lurk beneath the gay labels of canned goods. But since one must eat, and since canned vegetables are far ...
— The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories • B. M. Bower |
