Deep intoxication or sound sleep alike destroy it, and yet it returns when the drunkard becomes sober or the sleeper is awakened.

Terror sometimes produces the same effect.

I knew at Paris a criminal condemned to die by the halter, who suffered the sentence accordingly, showing no particular degree of timidity upon the scaffold, and behaving and expressing himself as men in the same condition are wont to do.

Accident did for him what a little ingenious practice hath done for our amiable friend from whom we but now parted.

He was cut down and given to his friends before life was extinct, and I had the good fortune to restore him.