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Sunstroke  n.  (Med.) Any affection produced by the action of the sun on some part of the body; especially, a sudden prostration of the physical powers, with symptoms resembling those of apoplexy, occasioned by exposure to excessive heat, and often terminating fatally; coup de soleil.






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"Sunstroke" Quotes from Famous Books



... crayon would have sat sketching so long in that temperature as he did, with the sun blazing through his straw hat and his blood mustering under his thin skin; but he stopped at a point short of sunstroke, and it was with a tumultuous sense of success that he at last arose, and, with the sketch-book still open, walked across the road and laid it on the pommel ...
— The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories • Charles Egbert Craddock

... from the sun, and his head ached violently. He was weak, too, from hunger, and the morning's dizziness persisted. Connected thought was impossible, beyond the fact that if he did not get out soon, he would be too weak to travel. Exhausted and on the verge of sunstroke, he set out on foot ...
— The Breaking Point • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... "Doctor fears sunstroke. Advises me to wait until to-morrow," the message read, and Patty and Mona looked at each other in ...
— Patty's Butterfly Days • Carolyn Wells

... sunstroke is concealed under that lump av sod yonder,' retorted Mulvaney unruffled, nodding across the scrub. 'An' there's a dale more in nature than your squidgy little legs have iver taken you to, Orth'ris, me son. Four hundred an' thirty-four rupees by my reckonin', AN' a big fat gold necklace ...
— Life's Handicap • Rudyard Kipling

... called Citta Vittoriosa; but La Valette decided on building the chief town of the isle on the Peninsula of Fort St. Elmo, and in this work he spent his latter days, till he was killed by a sunstroke, while superintending the new works of the city which is deservedly known by his ...
— A Book of Golden Deeds • Charlotte M. Yonge


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