"Painless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... times been a characteristic phenomenon of scrofula. A swelling is merely the result of diseases of the mucous membrane of the throat or nose, of herpes of the scalp or face, of inflammations of the ears, eyes, periosteum, bones, etc. In the beginning the swelling of the glands is painless and results in flat swellings of about the size of filberts, which may be moved back and forth; such glandular swellings may exist for years, without showing ...
— Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated • Max Birnbaum
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... cousin die, as I have no one in the world to love but her, I will blow my brains out. Why, then, should I be downcast? I set little store by my life. May God make the last hours of her whom I shall certainly not survive painless and peaceful—that is all I ...
— Mauprat • George Sand
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... But it is not painless in its working? She does not desire that: she wants the other to feel death; more—she wants the proof ...
— Browning's Heroines • Ethel Colburn Mayne
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... out-land or no-land with the shepherds and shepherdesses and nymphs, satyrs, and fauns, of Tasso and Guarini, and I take the finest pleasure in their company, their Dresden china loves and sorrows, their airy raptures, their painless throes, their polite anguish, their tears not the least salt, but flowing as sweet as the purling streams of their enamelled meadows. I wish there were more of that sort of writing; I should like very much ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
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... so-called arm of precision scores only by lucky hits, Though the 'heavies' and high explosives may possibly blow you to bits; I saw one corpse on my 'joy-ride,' the head had been blown away, And the thought of this painless ending produced in me ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 152, March 21, 1917 • Various
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