heart-stroke

And even so, I have never heard of a heart-stroke being preceded hours before by a weakening of the mind.

CHAPTER XXXIX 2010

All of us thought, if our minds made bold to think, that it must have pleased the Lord to take his lordship either with an appleplexy or a sudden heart-stroke, or, at any rate, some other gracious way not having any flow of blood in it.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

Only to have seen her without speaking would have been some relief; for Maggie was haunted by a face cruel in its very gentleness; a face that had been turned on hers with glad, sweet looks of trust and love from the twilight time of memory; changed now to a sad and weary face by a first heart-stroke.

IV. Maggie and Lucy. Book VII—The Final Rescue 1917

And even so, I have never heard of a heart-stroke being preceded hours before by a weakening of the mind.

Chapter 39 1914

On the 27th I had one of my terrible spasms of heart-stroke, which had near carried me off, and the severe disappointment of being kept in a situation where there can be nothing to do before August, almost killed me.

The Life of Nelson Mahan, A. T. 1897

And even so, I have never heard of a heart-stroke being preceded hours before by a weakening of the mind.

The Mutiny of the Elsinore Jack London 1896

This was a heart-stroke, but I kept up bravely, changing color perhaps, but not to such a marked degree as to arouse any deeper suspicion in his mind than that I had been wounded in my amour propre.

The Woman in the Alcove Anna Katharine Green 1890

But when the vessels are rendered relaxed, the resistance is removed, the heart begins to run quicker like a clock from which the pendulum has been removed, and the heart-stroke is greatly increased in frequency.

Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890

On the 27th I had one of my terrible spasms of heart-stroke, which had near carried me off, and the severe disappointment of being kept in a situation where there can be nothing to do before August, almost killed me.

The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 (of 2) The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain 1877

All of us thought, if our minds made bold to think, that it must have pleased the Lord to take his lordship either with an appleplexy or a sudden heart-stroke, or, at any rate, some other gracious way not having any flow of blood in it.

Erema — My Father's Sin 1862