supervene
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The statute-book was rent in pieces; anarchy threatened to supervene; England prepared to take possession again.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
Complications may arise, the strength may fail, the secretions may become too abundant, and asphyxia may ensue; emphysema may show itself, or catarrhal pneumonia may gradually supervene.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
In cases where grave nervous symptoms supervene and the typhoid condition is developed the facies assumes all the characteristics of that state.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
They all said there was atrophy of the muscles of the left leg, and predicted that complete paralysis would surely supervene.
From Quacks and Grafters by Unknown
But such Convulsions as supervene, either when Eruption having already occurred, suddenly retreats, or strikes in, according to the common Phrase; or during the Course of the Fever of Suppuration, are greatly more terrifying.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
Mr Blackwell told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that animals should be "stunned at the time of death", which would render them "insensible to pain until death supervenes".
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2014
From the moment one hoists sail, cuts the engine and bears away downwind to Bequia, euphoria supervenes.
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Whenever starvation supervenes, and the usual hospital liquid diet is really semistarvation, the bacteria normally present in the bowel increase enormously and produce large amounts of flatus.
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For when traditional justice fails, retributive justice supervenes.
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In this latter case, which is often realised—e.g. lichens, leguminous plants and the organisms in their root-nodules, mycorrhiza, etc.—we leave the domain of disease, which supervenes indeed if the other symbiont is lacking.
From Disease in Plants by H. Marshall Ward
There were cases, however, whose prognosis seemed good but where death supervened suddenly.
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Afterwards, when a certain amount of imperfection had supervened between me and that perfect look, these explanations did present themselves, yes, in crowds, but not then.
From The Debit Account by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
Misgivings deepened as we drew near; alarm supervened.
From Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge
She had also laboured under a similar attack seven years before, which, like the present, supervened upon the birth of a child.
From Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection by John Haslam
Diarrhoea supervened and the patient died about midnight.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Indeed, the attorney general’s job, at times, is to tell the president “no” because of the supervening demands of the law.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2017
In the event of suppuration supervening, incision and drainage must be carried out.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
For if the pleasure of virtuous activity is a supervening end beyond the activity, it becomes a supervening end beyond the happiness of virtuous activity, which thus ceases to be the final end.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various
Numerous cases are on record of convulsions supervening upon violent passion in the nurse.
From The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by George H. (George Henry) Napheys
The incessant drenching from sea and sky to which they had been so long subjected, chilled their slackened circulation to such a degree, that death from torpor seemed rapidly supervening.
From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Brantz Mayer
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