goneness

• “SINKING SENSATIONS: -- Many women have a feeling of weakness or "goneness" at about eleven o'clock in the morning, and are led by it to the injurious practice of eating between meals.”

  Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say

• “For a long time I could never rid myself of a sensation of 'goneness' when I read the figures indicating the distance to St. Petersburg.”

  Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life

• “His very thraldom to the habit seemed an improbable, grotesque dream, which some morning would dissipate, but as a matter of experience each morning brought such a profound sinking and "goneness" that his will-power shrivelled like a paper barricade before the scorching intensity of his desire.”

  Without a Home

• “The 'goneness' and other unpleasant sensations referred to the pit of the stomach may be much relieved by wearing a well-made spice-plaster over the stomach, or binding there a bag of gum camphor; or if these fail, an opium plaster will hardly fail to be of service.”

  The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother

• “Her throat was parched, a dull ache never ceased in her breast, and she was oppressed by a feeling of goneness.”

  CHAPTER XIV

• “But ever -- and here the torment lay -- she was drawn back from these far-wanderings to her present trouble, with its parch in the throat, its ache in the breast, and its gnawing, vacant goneness.”

  CHAPTER XIV

• ““And the rest of our lives will the moments accrue/when the shape of their goneness will flare up anew.””

  Allergy Pills Make You Fat

• “And when I have had a hard time with his goneness I have felt incredibly guilty that he wasn't more 'in harm's way.”

  The Guilt - SpouseBUZZ

• “And when they go away again, their goneness is that much more emphatic.”

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• “Because, once you die, you are either completely GONE, unable to comprehend any longer your goneness, or you are in the sprit world or heaven or hell or whatever.”

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