repletion

• “If we did but know the consequences which may ensue, in very weak patients, from tem minutes 'fasting or repletion (I call it repletion when they are obliged to let too small an interval elapse between taking food and some other exertion, owing to the nurse's unpunctuality), we should be more careful never to let this occur.”

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

• “His thick bulk in repose suggested the idea of repletion, but as a matter of fact he had eaten very little.”

  'Twixt Land and Sea

• “So large is the variety of literary products continually coming forward, forced upon the attention of the reader by stimulating and suggestive titles, commended to his notice by famous names, recasting old subjects and developing and illustrating new ones, that the mind is liable to be urged into a kind of unnatural hunger, leading to a repletion which is often followed by disgust and disturbed nervous conditions as its natural consequence.”

  Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works

• “From Garberville, where we ate eel to repletion and got acquainted with the aborigines, we drove down the Eel River Valley for two days through the most unthinkably glorious body of redwood timber to be seen anywhere in California.”

  FOUR HORSES AND A SAILOR

• “She reached out her hand to Billy's and sighed with sheer repletion of content.”

  CHAPTER VI

• “Piranesi indulged this conceit to repletion in his fantasy rendering of the Appian Way, wherein an enormous, tightly packed heap of garish, ill-assorted temples and palaces stretches to the horizon.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Heirloom City

• “The toxin is usually eliminated through vomiting (40 percent) and diarrhea (70 percent) but there may be some limited benefit in administration of activated charcoal to the patient. 16 The GI symptoms usually subside within a 24-hour period but the neurological symptoms may persist for days to months. 10,13 Fluid and electrolyte repletion is recommended for patients with significant GI fluid loss.”

  Fish poisonings and envenomations

• “Men, women, children, and dogs gorged to repletion, nor was there one person, even among the chance visitors and stray hunters from other tribes, who failed to receive some token of the bridegroom's largess.”

  THE MARRIAGE TO LIT-LIT

• “Speak of a community which equally distributes the products of labour and I will grant that there has been an arbitrary alteration, the normal course of nature being that the stronger, openly, and even with the common assent, takes to the repletion of his desire from the weaker.”

  The Kempton-Wace Letters

• “What can we know of the moments of repletion that fall into another's life?”

  The Kempton-Wace Letters

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