(1) His work is particularly strong in its depiction of the ways in which those at the pinnacle of medical practice have altered their understanding of the causes, effects and, therefore, treatment of costive patients.(2) Yet although the writer pokes fun, he teases the verbally prolix, emotionally costive Huxley as much as he does the earnest Wilberforce.(3) He is certainly gesturally sparing and chromatically costive .(4) Within the production's terms, George Anton is a powerfully costive Hamlet both hostile to and tainted by this world of animalistic appetite.(5) Still, much as one enjoys the giddiness as reality and fiction seep into each other, there is still something wilfully costive about it.(6) It is costive and hermetic and yet obsessed with changing the world.(7) Having been struggling costively with it for more than two years, I must have written about 50 pages of it that week.(8) If the bark clysters should bring on costiveness the laudanum may occasionally be omitted; if this is not attended with the desired consequences, we have recourse to a common injection.(9) Fresh vegetables, as peas, beans, potatoes, squashes, and ripe fruits, in their season, are all wholesome, and help to relieve costiveness .(10) A little bit of exercise is good and can help, for example, to end the costiveness , but in excess it's bad.(11) I can see you now straining costively in a dirty room to come up with that stale breadcrumb of witlessness.(12) Fruits, fresh vegetables, and cabbages relieve the costiveness and effect softened motions in the morning.(13) Whenever sickness, vomiting, and obstinate costiveness give reason to suspect an obstruction of the bowels, all those places where ruptures usually happen ought carefully to be examined.
