Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese[…]began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated. The poisoning was irreversible, and soon ended in psychosis and death. Nowadays workers are exposed to far lower doses and manganism is rare.

The prospect of becoming a father is a dose of reality that threatens to bring his dream world crashing down.

Don't give a dose to the one you love most. / Give her some marmalade... give her some toast.

It would be very expensive to cure a dose here, as well as unbelievably painful.

Just at the dawning of the day, I fell into a dose more like sleep than any I had during the whole night, in which I dreamed that I saw a river as clear as crystal […]

Sometime back, one of your scarlet sisters dosed me proper.

It was to me a marvellous experience; to be here, propped up with pillows in a dimly-lighted room, the night-nurse idly dosing by the fire; the sound of the everlasting wind in my ears, howling outside […]

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