stupes

They are jumping too soon or too late and hitting the posts and radial bars, doing cartoon climbs up each other's back, and what kind of stupes must they look like to people at the hot dog stand on the other side of the turnstiles, what kind of awful screwups-a line of mostly men beginning to glance this way, jaws working at the sweaty meat and grease bubbles flurrying on their tongues, the gent at the far end going dead-still except for a hand that produces automatic movement, swabbing on mustard with a brush.

DeLillo Pretentious? Stupid? Literary Pugilists Throw Punches 2002

They are jumping too soon or too late and hitting the posts and radial bars, doing cartoon climbs up each other's back, and what kind of stupes must they look like to people at the hot dog stand on the other side of the turnstiles, what kind of awful screwups-a line of mostly men beginning to glance this way, jaws working at the sweaty meat and grease bubbles flurrying on their tongues, the gent at the far end going dead-still except for a hand that produces automatic movement, swabbing on mustard with a brush.

DeLillo Pretentious? Stupid? Literary Pugilists Throw Punches 2002

Lord knows there are plenty of stupes that are willing to fight a war in places that no one really gives a crap about.

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You all wondering why the gasprice is up? guys like this one has your salery in their pockets stupes….

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“What a pair of stupes we must be to go on so!” he cried, with a couple of bright guineas in his hand.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

Slow and easy for the stupes in the peanut gallery.

American Tabloid Ellroy, James, 1948- 1995

Dried Poppy-heads, formerly in constant request for making hot soothing stupes, or for application directly to a part in pain, are now superseded for the most part by the many modern liquid preparations of opium handy for the purpose, to be mixed with hot water, or applied in poultices.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

If of a less severe character, the dislocation may be dressed with stupes of canabina (Indian hemp), urine and salt water, which greatly mitigate the pain and swelling.

Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson

Sprains of the ankle are to be treated by placing the joint immediately in very cold water _ad repercussionem spiritus et sanguinis_, and the joint is to be kept thus refrigerated until it even becomes numb (_stupefactionem_); after which stupes of salt water and urine are to be applied, followed by a plaster of galbanum, opoponax, the apostolicon, etc.

Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson

For outward use laudanum may be safely added to stupes, hot or cold, a teaspoonful being usually sufficient for the purpose, or perhaps two, if the pain is severe; and powdered opium may be incorporated with one or another ointment for a similar object.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie