globule

• “Homoeopathy has introduced one essential amelioration in the practice of physic by amateur females; for its rules are excellent, its physicking comparatively harmless – the "globule" is the one grain of folly which appears to be necessary to make any good thing acceptable.”

  Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not

• “As long as the intermittent type continues, Apis has to be given; the action of the spleen becomes more and more normal, the fever paroxysms become shorter and less marked, and the restoration of health is effected without any more treatment than a single dose of Apis 30, one globule, which is permitted to act until the patient is well.”

  Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent

• “But, having announced a wonderful truth in reference to the unity of the human race as based upon one blood, science comes to his support, and through the microscope reveals the corpuscles of the blood, and shows that the globule is the same in all human blood.”

  History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens

• “Even hours into the numbing routine—dip, scoop, dip—he would add that little flourish, time after time, as he transferred the globule from one bath to another.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Sorcerer’s Apprentices

• “A tear, turned to a globule of ice, rested on her cheek, and her eyes were dim and moist; there was an-expression of hopeless, fathomless woe.”

  CHAPTER 9

• “Every woollen filament of our garments, every hair of our heads and faces, was jewelled with a crystal globule.”

  Chapter 25

• “I'm a little fuzzy on what a Bok globule is, but I'll take Shostak's word for it that such things might be loaded to the gills with aliens.”

  The Washington Post: Searching for aliens

• “Its downward-curving bill was mimicked in her drooping nose, the fleshy point suspended like a globule of cold sap.”

  Simon & Schuster: Raven Speak

• “When she opened her mouth to speak, I spotted a green globule wedged in her braces.”

  Simon & Schuster: Lifted

• “His nose was filled with blood; a globule swelled at the tip.”

  Fictionaut: I Don’t Understand ?

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