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  • …thirty and then sixty milligrams of Roxicodone on the marble top of the nightstand, inhaled it through a cut straw, then unwilling to flush the rest of the pills (well over two thousand dollars' worth) got up, dressed, flushed my nose with saline spray, and, after squirrelling away a few more of the long-acting morphs in case the "withdraws" as Jerome called them got too uncomfortable, slipped the Redbreast Flake tin in my pocket and—at six a.m., before Hobie awoke—took a cab up to the…†   (source)
  • They gave me an IV—the saline helps cut down the alcohol in your system—and finally took me back to the hotel, still taped to the spine board.†   (source)
  • In traditional tanks, the person would float on his back in a hyperbuoyant saline solution that kept his face above the water so he could breathe.†   (source)
  • Dr. Sherman ordered an intravenous saline drip and an injection of the labor inhibitor Brethine.†   (source)
  • Through the windows you could see a large part of the city and the waterfront and, off to one side, the tents and cardboard huts in a slum called La Saline.†   (source)
  • They were far enough from the freshwater rivers on the north coast of Russia not to have to worry about pools and walls of variable salinity interfering with their sonar searches.†   (source)
  • He screwed the other end of the line into the IV hag of saline he'd pulled from his kit.†   (source)
  • There should be some saline.†   (source)
  • The only thing left in my IV bag is saline to keep my kidneys from shutting down.†   (source)
  • We washed out the abdominal cavity with several liters of saline, pouring it in, then suctioning it out.†   (source)
  • One part sterile saline, two parts pentobarbital, two parts chlorpromazine, all adding up to nine cc's of tranquility.†   (source)
  • He announced that he had taken great pains to avoid contamination: each meteorite he examined had been washed in twelve solutions, including peroxide, iodine, hypertonic saline, and dilute acids.†   (source)
  • That they'd have to inject her with a saline solution to expel her baby's remains.†   (source)
  • In the back of the ambulance, I held Fang's cold hand, which now had a saline drip taped into it.†   (source)
  • A tube is inserted into John Kennedy's throat to open his airway, and saline solution is pumped into his body through his right femoral vein.†   (source)
  • He was napping this morning when I visited him, still propped up in the tilted bed, the lines to the various monitors and saline drip and his oxygen crisscrossing his wide, bared chest.†   (source)
  • He wondered whether it would be possible to rig up a saline solution transfusion.†   (source)
  • I don't know whether or not I will do this, but driving along I have planned it in detail even to the kind of pump, the leeching bins, the tests to determine disappearance of salinity.†   (source)
  • The skin is robbed of saline solutions, the tissues sink, and the collagen becomes alas! increasingly visible.†   (source)
  • Silicon implants can be filled with saline or more silicon.
  • Don't they say that drinking too much saline water makes a man-eater of a tiger?†   (source)
  • Did the water change salinity so subtly that it was too late by the time the fish realized it?†   (source)
  • It took two units of saline solution to fix his dehydration.†   (source)
  • He jabs an IV into my arm and hooks up a saline drip.†   (source)
  • The ambulance crew had two bags of intravenous saline going wide open.†   (source)
  • We're giving him saline, to counter the shock, but he needs blood.†   (source)
  • A liter of saline would boost her by twenty percent.†   (source)
  • Gabby found the saline and the jelly and handed them over.†   (source)
  • Dan used saline solutions for half a dozen purposes.†   (source)
  • His saline drip had come away.†   (source)
  • Other doctors were putting compresses of saline solution on the worst burns.†   (source)
  • The procession advanced; one by one the eggs were transferred from their test-tubes to the larger containers; deftly the peritoneal lining was slit, the morula dropped into place, the saline solution poured in … and already the bottle had passed, and it was the turn of the labellers.†   (source)
  • It was as good a thing for his spirit as a saline injection is for a man who has suffered a great hemorrhage.†   (source)
  • …. continued with some account of the technique for preserving the excised ovary alive and actively developing; passed on to a consideration of optimum temperature, salinity, viscosity; referred to the liquor in which the detached and ripened eggs were kept;†   (source)
  • His were the shinbones of the saline beef; his would have been the drumsticks.†   (source)
  • …used most commonly to take shape in my mind during my long nights of sleeplessness, there was none that differed more utterly from the rooms at Combray, thickly powdered with the motes of an atmosphere granular, pollenous, edible and instinct with piety, than my room in the Grand Hotel de la Plage, at Balbec, the walls of which, washed with ripolin, contained, like the polished sides of a basin in which the water glows with a blue, lurking fire, a finer air, pure, azure-tinted, saline.†   (source)
  • He may even now—if I may use the phrase—be wandering on some plesiosaurus-haunted Oolitic coral reef, or beside the lonely saline lakes of the Triassic Age.†   (source)
  • These are called "licks" or "salt licks," in the language of the country, from the circumstance that the quadruped is often obliged to lick the earth, in order to obtain the saline particles.†   (source)
  • It will be easily conceived that after an imprisonment of forty seven days in a narrow gallery it was the height of physical enjoyment to breathe a moist air impregnated with saline particles.†   (source)
  • Murky as well, and very rich in saline material, their pure indigo contrasts with the green waves surrounding them.†   (source)
  • The atmosphere is charged with vapours, pervaded with the electricity generated by the evaporation of saline waters.†   (source)
  • Then, going on: "Salts," he said, "fill the sea in considerable quantities, professor, and if you removed all its dissolved saline content, you'd create a mass measuring 4,500,000 cubic leagues, which if it were spread all over the globe, would form a layer more than ten meters high.†   (source)
  • For several days our work hours were spent in all sorts of experiments, on the degree of salinity in waters of different depths, or on their electric properties, coloration, and transparency, and in every instance Captain Nemo displayed an ingenuity equaled only by his graciousness toward me.†   (source)
  • "In the first place, because vertical currents, which are caused by differences in the water's salinity and density, can produce enough motion to sustain the rudimentary lifestyles of sea lilies and starfish."†   (source)
  • Along the northern coast, Just back from the rock-bound shore and the caves, In the saline air from the sea in the Mendocino country, With the surge for base and accompaniment low and hoarse, With crackling blows of axes sounding musically driven by strong arms, Riven deep by the sharp tongues of the axes, there in the redwood forest dense, I heard the might tree its death-chant chanting.†   (source)
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