supervene
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Whenever this Method has not been observed, and the Accidents described § 223 supervene, the Distemper must be treated like an Inflammation in its first State, and all must be done as directed § 225.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
The question, what becomes of these philanthropic tradesmen after their ultimate impoverishment, which of course must speedily supervene, is a fruitful subject for the investigation of some inquisitive mind.
From Doesticks, What He Says by Q. K. Philander Doesticks
Diarrhoea may also be present at this time, or may not supervene until later.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
But he left the house holding a very strong belief that meningitis would supervene.
From A Soldier's Son by Maude M. Butler
If the Distemper rises to a violent Degree indeed, a Delirium and Convulsions supervene.
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
For when traditional justice fails, retributive justice supervenes.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the moment one hoists sail, cuts the engine and bears away downwind to Bequia, euphoria supervenes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Underhill believes measles to be most fatal when it supervenes soon after delivery, while those who are confined during the course of the malady stand a better chance of recovering from it.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
There were cases, however, whose prognosis seemed good but where death supervened suddenly.
From Time Magazine Archive
Five minutes more of this excitement and heart disease might have supervened.
From Franz Liszt by James Huneker
His wound had bled considerably during the journey; but the effusion had stopped when the faintness supervened.
From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by William Harrison Ainsworth
Other troubles supervened, and when he arrived in England he found his picture in such a state that he was compelled to abandon it and begin again.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various
The night before toothache had deprived him of sleep, an attack of fever supervened, and six months of harsh imprisonment had left him little physical endurance.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
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
It is only to be regretted that these brilliant qualities are often tarnished by the corruption which administrative venality and rapacity, supervening upon long military occupations, have insensibly diffused through all classes of the population.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
We have indirect evidence of this in many variations and diseases supervening during so-called growth at a particular period, and being inherited at a corresponding period.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Charles Darwin
And such is matter, which my its nature is ever averse from the supervening irradiations of form.
From An Essay on the Beautiful From the Greek of Plotinus by Thomas Taylor
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
