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  • The reckless passion of the heroine, Arabella, for a wicked foreign count is punished by ill fortune when she contracts cholera during an impetuous dash toward a seaside town with her intended.†   (source)
  • Her parents died of cholera.†   (source)
  • "If it's typhus or cholera or any number of other things, these may help.†   (source)
  • There was diphtheria, typhus, cholera, influenza.†   (source)
  • Yet cholera doesn't come close to TB in its frequency of literary occurrence.†   (source)
  • "Could have the cholera," said Paul D. "Reckon?"†   (source)
  • Officials were concerned about the spread of E. coli, the risk of typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery.†   (source)
  • The cholera was much more devastating to the black population, which was larger and poorer, but in reality it had no regard for color or background.†   (source)
  • He died of cholera in 1831, but not before 'He-gelianism' had gained an enormous following at nearly all the universities in Germany.†   (source)
  • When you get settled in your next place, you will be a vegetarian caring for dogs with the mange, cats with the cholera and cows with the epizootic.†   (source)
  • Cholera gets them or consumption or something else, and they die.†   (source)
  • Their impulse is to go at this thing like a Mafia button man … or a scared relative burying a cholera victim.†   (source)
  • We'd heard that cholera ran rampant because of a nasty water supply.†   (source)
  • "Mother died of cholera," he says emphatically, as if even he believes the lie now.†   (source)
  • I shake my head but I can't offer an excuse and I don't have one anyway, though I'm sure I could easily come up with something believable: homework, emptying bedpans at the local nursing home, cholera.†   (source)
  • These were the traditional symbols used to counteract the evils brought on by summer—cholera, plague, typhoid, malaria, and typhus.†   (source)
  • She showed me how to coax the patients into taking their medicine, which they often refused, and how to give them goat broth with a lot of salt to treat the dehydration that came with cholera.†   (source)
  • Enoch said, "You mean things other than rats and cholera and whatever sorts of mad trolls live beneath crypts?"†   (source)
  • Their strongest ally was the stalemate in the Libyan desert, where cholera and typhoid were leveling the Italian expeditionary force.†   (source)
  • The Tiber Creek and its adjacent canal are open sewers, a breeding ground for typhus, cholera, and dysentery.†   (source)
  • His target had been the teeming continents and the great plagues—malaria, typhus, cholera, typhoid, dysentery—and he was angling for a World Health Organization or Point Four appointment.†   (source)
  • Well, that's better than this cholera thing.†   (source)
  • Many of them were dying of pneumonia, and several others had been taken down with cholera from drinking the poisoned water.†   (source)
  • "I would sooner," he thundered, "sit in council with the six thousand dead who have died of cholera in St. Louis than go into convention with such a gang of scamps!"†   (source)
  • "They just announced that there's been an outbreak of cholera at Penn Station."†   (source)
  • I think cholera people puke all the time.†   (source)
  • The Civil and Military Commander of the city told her: "It's cholera.†   (source)
  • Death by cholera is unsightly, painful, smelly, and violent.†   (source)
  • Transito Ariza used to say: "The only disease my son ever had was cholera."†   (source)
  • The symptoms weren't anything like cholera, though; they seemed more like a cold—or the flu.†   (source)
  • Someone said that the cholera was ravaging the villages of the Great Swamp.†   (source)
  • I asked, horrified, imagining a flash cholera outbreak that had wiped out everyone in quarantine.†   (source)
  • The only thing that would allow them to bypass all that was a case of cholera on board.†   (source)
  • She had confused cholera with love, of course, long before her memory failed.†   (source)
  • Cholera was the official explanation for her death.†   (source)
  • Oh, he hadn't captured Father or thrown him in prison or given him cholera or anything like that.†   (source)
  • I told of the time there was a cholera epidemic and of the illnesses that came from bad water.†   (source)
  • Amazing that her cholera didn't kill us all.†   (source)
  • "I know that she didn't die of cholera, for one thing."†   (source)
  • Gemma, you know that cholera took poor Mother.†   (source)
  • Jennifer's going to get this sort of—cholera?†   (source)
  • If I'm to die, as I most certainly am, I'd rather die of drinking port than of this cholera thing.†   (source)
  • At the time of my advent here, we had many Cholera outbreaks, perforating Dysentries, intractable Diarrhoeas, and the whole deadly Typhoid family, which were plaguing the Asylum.†   (source)
  • In August we had our first case of cholera in Mingora and soon there was a tent of patients outside the hospital.†   (source)
  • Like Cholera Awareness Day.†   (source)
  • She had no children of her own, her only one having died of the cholera at the same time as her dear departed husband, and she missed the sound of little feet, or so she told our father.†   (source)
  • No one had forgotten how in 1885 fouled water had ignited an outbreak of cholera and typhoid that killed ten percent of the city's population.†   (source)
  • "The only cloud I see over the Exposition now is the Cholera," he wrote in a letter to his Brookline office.†   (source)
  • By the middle of the nineteenth century, science discovered that cholera and bad water went together, so it had no mystery points.†   (source)
  • Even if there was a tent for us, it was far too hot inside and there was talk that diseases like cholera were spreading.†   (source)
  • One poor Irishwoman had all her family dead, half of them of starving in the great famine and the other half of the cholera on the boat coming over; and she would wander about calling their names.†   (source)
  • She shouldn't eat with cholera.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Phelan said it was a shame, and they would treat a cow better, and she said the best way to get the doctor was to say it might be the typhus, or else the cholera, as there was nothing on earth they were more afraid of, on board a ship.†   (source)
  • An outbreak of smallpox or cholera or any of the other lethal infections that roamed the city could irreparably taint the exposition and destroy any hopes the directors had of achieving the record attendance necessary to generate a profit.†   (source)
  • Cholera has abad reputation, and there's almost nothing the best public relations firm in the world could do to improve it.†   (source)
  • By now the new science of bacteriology, pioneered by Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur, had convinced most public health officials that contaminated drinking water caused the spread of cholera and other bacterial diseases.†   (source)
  • Prior to modern sanitation and enclosed water systems in the twentieth century, cholera was nearly as common as, much more aggressive than, and more devastating than tuberculosis (which was generally called consumption).†   (source)
  • If cholera had broken out at Penn Station, and they'd been there, then letting them back into the building was risking infection for all of us.†   (source)
  • We were required to stop at an island and to undergo an inspection for cholera, as many before us had brought it into the country on the ships; but as the dead people on our ship had died of other things — four besides my mother, two from consumption and one from apoplexy, and one jumped overboard — we were allowed to proceed.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, banks and companies were failing across America, strikes threatened everywhere, and cholera had begun a slow white trek across Europe, raising fears that the first plague ships would soon arrive in New York Harbor.†   (source)
  • In the end, I'd convinced Richard that we could quarantine them on the first floor for two days, well past the incubation period for cholera.†   (source)
  • Even more sinister were the meshnet reports of hundreds or even thousands of dead inside Penn and Javits, and that the cholera had spread to Grand Central Station.†   (source)
  • One of the children contracted cholera but recovered very soon, and the entire family returned home when the danger was over.†   (source)
  • The pace of decline in the hallway had taken an abrupt downward turn when the cholera outbreak had been reported at Penn three days ago, and all the emergency shelters had been quarantined.†   (source)
  • After all, everyone knew that the time of cholera had not ended despite all the joyful statistics from the health officials.†   (source)
  • At that point, a half dozen of us were holding nearly thirty people at gunpoint, and anyway, it had been impossible to guess if they were exhibiting signs of cholera.†   (source)
  • Some villages fired charitable cannons for them to frighten away the cholera, and they expressed their gratitude with a mournful bellow.†   (source)
  • My God, cholera.†   (source)
  • A short while later, The Commercial Daily published the news that two children had died of cholera in different locations in the city.†   (source)
  • Cholera became an obsession for him.†   (source)
  • It was learned that one of them had had common dysentery, but the other, a girl of five, appeared to have been, in fact, a victim of cholera.†   (source)
  • But when he opened the door for him in front of his house, he said: "Be careful, Don Floro, that looks like cholera."†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza buried her in the former Hand of God ranch, which was still known as the Cholera Cemetery, and he planted a rosebush on her grave.†   (source)
  • The Captain replied that they had only three passengers on board and all of them had cholera, but they were being kept in strict seclusion.†   (source)
  • His conclusion, after a string of barbaric curses, was that he could find no way out of the mess he had gotten into with the cholera flag.†   (source)
  • "Well, it must be a very special form of cholera," he said, "because every single corpse has received the coup de grace through the back of the neck."†   (source)
  • She was more explicit: the young doctor she had heard so much about in connection with the cholera epidemic seemed a pedant incapable of loving anyone but himself.†   (source)
  • The child they had both longed for was born without incident under the sign of Aquarius and baptized in honor of the grandfather who had died of cholera.†   (source)
  • So the New Fidelity weighed anchor at dawn the next day, without cargo or passengers, and with the yellow cholera flag waving jubilantly from the mainmast.†   (source)
  • All that was needed was shrewd questioning, first of the patient and then of his mother, to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.†   (source)
  • The epidemic of cholera morbus, whose first victims were struck down in the standing water of the market, had, in eleven weeks, been responsible for the greatest death toll in our history.†   (source)
  • A physician who was a friend of his thought he detected the warning symptoms of cholera in an eighteen-year-old patient, and he asked Dr. Juvenal Urbino to see her.†   (source)
  • They established an obligatory Chair of Cholera and Yellow Fever in the Medical School, and realized the urgency of closing up the sewers and building a market far from the garbage dump.†   (source)
  • He never knew, because no one ever knew, if they were victims of the cholera or the war, but the nauseating stench contaminated his memory of Fermina Daza.†   (source)
  • From the time the cholera proclamation was issued, the local garrison shot a cannon from the fortress every quarter hour, day and night, in accordance with the local superstition that gunpowder purified the atmosphere.†   (source)
  • His father, a physician who was more self-sacrificing than eminent, had died in the epidemic of Asian cholera that had devastated the population six years earlier, and with him had died the spirit of the house.†   (source)
  • Soon after he had completed his course of specialized studies in France, Dr. Juvenal Urbino became known in his country for the drastic new methods he used to ward off the last cholera epidemic suffered by the province.†   (source)
  • The only element that contradicted the raw truth of the story was that in the painting he was wearing not the collarless shirt and the suspenders with green stripes, but rather a bowler hat and black frock coat copied from a rotogravure made during the years of the cholera epidemic.†   (source)
  • But that same day they encountered another boat, with a cargo of cattle for Jamaica, and were informed that the vessel with the plague flag was carrying two people sick with cholera, and that the epidemic was wreaking havoc along the portion of the river they still had to travel.†   (source)
  • At eighty-one years of age he preserved the same easygoing manner and festive spirit that he had on his return from Paris soon after the great cholera epidemic, and except for the metallic color, his carefully combed hair with the center part was the same as it had been in his youth.†   (source)
  • Captain Samaritano had needed to do just that on several occasions because of the many cases of cholera along the river, although later the health authorities had obliged the doctors to sign death certificates that called the cases common dysentery.†   (source)
  • There was no one else: the woodcutters had abandoned their trails, fleeing the ferocity of the lords of the earth, fleeing the invisible cholera, fleeing the larval wars that governments were bent on hiding with distracted decrees.†   (source)
  • Someone saw him shivering with fever and informed the Captain, who, fearing a case of cholera, left the party with the ship's doctor, and the doctor took the precaution of sending Florentino to the quarantine cabin with a dose of bromides.†   (source)
  • From that time on, and well into this century, cholera was endemic not only in the city but along most of the Caribbean coast and the valley of the Magdalena, but it never again flared into an epidemic.†   (source)
  • After the first two weeks of the cholera epidemic, the cemetery was overflowing and there was no room left in the churches despite the fact that they had dispatched the decayed remains of many nameless civic heroes to the communal ossuary.†   (source)
  • From the sky they could see, just as God saw them, the ruins of the very old and heroic city of Cartagena de Indias, the most beautiful in the world, abandoned by its inhabitants because of the cholera panic after three centuries of resistance to the sieges of the English and the atrocities of the buccaneers.†   (source)
  • All that Florentino Ariza could learn about Lorenzo Daza was that he had come from San Juan de la Cienaga with his only daughter and his unmarried sister soon after the cholera epidemic, and those who saw him disembark had no doubt that he had come to stay since he brought everything necessary for a well-furnished house.†   (source)
  • He remembered the sky-blue chemise edged in lace, the feverish eyes, the long hair hanging loose over her shoulders, but he was so concerned with the outbreak of cholera in the colonial district that he took no notice of her flowering adolescence: he had eyes only for the slightest hint that she might be a victim of the plague.†   (source)
  • Relieved by this proof that his daughter had not contracted cholera, Lorenzo Daza accompanied Dr. Juvenal Urbino to the door of his carriage, paid him a gold peso for the visit, a fee that seemed excessive even for a physician to the rich, and he said goodbye with immoderate expressions of gratitude.†   (source)
  • But after the death of his father he learned all there was to know about the different forms of cholera, almost as a penance to appease his memory, and he studied with the most outstanding epidemiologist of his time and the creator of the cordons sanitaires, Professor Adrien Proust, father of the great novelist.†   (source)
  • But when he began to wait for the answer to his first letter, his anguish was complicated by diarrhea and green vomit, he became disoriented and suffered from sudden fainting spells, and his mother was terrified because his condition did not resemble the turmoil of love so much as the devastation of cholera.†   (source)
  • The example of cholera came to mind.†   (source)
  • Cholera had broken out, you see.†   (source)
  • The papers revealed constantly revised predictions of victory, calls for volunteers, the existence of a ship of the Knights of Malta that took on hundreds of cholera victims and rushed back to Naples, staying only a day to resupply, the blackbordered death announcements, and the panicked rumors from those in power.†   (source)
  • For centuries, men had known that cholera was a fatal disease, and that it caused severe diarrhea, sometimes producing as much as thirty quarts of fluid a day.†   (source)
  • When he had joined the Wildfire team, he had undergone immunizations for everything imaginable, even plague and cholera, which had to be renewed every six months, and gamma-globulin shots for viral infection.†   (source)
  • That's what had happend to Father: they'd had an epidemic of cholera on the prison ship he'd been on.†   (source)
  • It was not until modern times that cholera was recognized as a disease that killed through dehydration primarily; if you could replace a victim's water losses rapidly, he would survive the infection without other drugs or treatment.†   (source)
  • My cholera is acting up again.†   (source)
  • Your mother died of cholera.†   (source)
  • Our mother died of cholera.†   (source)
  • Yes, her cholera.†   (source)
  • Somebody was saying it's like cholera.†   (source)
  • It is rather like cholera.†   (source)
  • Among the Indians, measles, scarlatina and whooping-cough were as deadly as typhus or cholera.†   (source)
  • The first, a girl, died in her twentieth month, of infant cholera; two more died at birth.†   (source)
  • At the start of the winter came the permanent rain and with the rain came the cholera.†   (source)
  • It's cholera, isn't it?†   (source)
  • But cholera choke him anyway!†   (source)
  • I was like I'd had the cholera morbus.†   (source)
  • Twice, while he and Father Latour were missionaries in Ohio, Joseph had been at death's door; once so ill with cholera that the newspapers had printed his name in the death list.†   (source)
  • Cholera in your belly!†   (source)
  • No, it's not cholera.†   (source)
  • The cholera had broken out in its most fatal form and people were dying like flies.†   (source)
  • Something always comes along, cholera duty in India and things like that.†   (source)
  • Could what was called diarrhcea really be an early case of cholera?†   (source)
  • Can't we start rumors about cholera or something?†   (source)
  • Another summer he lost his hogs from cholera, and a valuable stallion died from a rattlesnake bite.†   (source)
  • "And so much, my dear Rafi, for your cholera," hooted Aziz, unable to restrain himself.†   (source)
  • When people had the cholera it seemed that they remembered nothing but themselves.†   (source)
  • "Captain Lennox and his wife died of the cholera," Mr. Craven had said in his short, cold way.†   (source)
  • I hear cholera, I hear bubonic plague, I hear every species of lie.†   (source)
  • "Cholera, cholera, what next, what now?" cried the doctor, greatly fussed.†   (source)
  • She was playing by herself under a tree, just as she had been playing the day the cholera broke out.†   (source)
  • I fell asleep when everyone had the cholera and I have only just wakened up.†   (source)
  • I should go straight to the Minto now, the cholera looks bad.†   (source)
  • Oxygen! nobody knows what that may be—is it any wonder the cholera has got to Dantzic?†   (source)
  • This reply invariably operated like a rumour of cholera.†   (source)
  • In these winds one felt the breath of the cholera.†   (source)
  • "Let us hope that there will be no more cases of cholera to be buried in it," said Mrs. Bulstrode.†   (source)
  • They did not notice the cholera which decimated Paris precisely during that very month.†   (source)
  • He suffered the usual penalties for breaking out of bounds when there was cholera in the city.†   (source)
  • He is preparing a new ward in case of the cholera coming to us.†   (source)
  • There was said to be two thousand dollars a week hush money from the tubercular steers alone; and as much again from the hogs which had died of cholera on the trains, and which you might see any day being loaded into boxcars and hauled away to a place called Globe, in Indiana, where they made a fancy grade of lard.†   (source)
  • We have very many soldiers in camp near my village, and the cholera break out in that camp, and the men die like flies.†   (source)
  • …intelligence should let himself be made to suffer by a creature of that kind, who isn't even interesting, for they tell me, she's an absolute idiot!" she concluded with the wisdom invariably shewn by people who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man ought to be unhappy only about such persons as are worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the common bacillus.†   (source)
  • Back in 1881 he was confirming Pasteur's results in chicken cholera immunity and, for relief and pastime, trying to separate an enzyme from yeast.†   (source)
  • It is born out of an egg, lives for a few weeks as a tiny fluffy thing such as you will see pictured on Easter cards, then becomes hideously naked, eats quantities of corn and meal bought by the sweat of your father's brow, gets diseases called pip, cholera, and other names, stands looking with stupid eyes at the sun, becomes sick and dies.†   (source)
  • All India lay behind him; plains, mountains; epidemics of cholera; a district twice as big as Ireland; decisions he had come to alone—he, Peter Walsh; who was now really for the first time in his life, in love.†   (source)
  • Frequently, in the course of a two or three days' trip, in hot weather and without water, some hog would develop cholera, and die; and the rest would attack him before he had ceased kicking, and when the car was opened there would be nothing of him left but the bones.†   (source)
  • All during our ten years on the chicken farm he had worked as a laborer on neighboring farms and most of the money he had earned had been spent for remedies to cure chicken diseases, on Wilmer's White Wonder Cholera Cure or Professor Bidlow's Egg Producer or some other preparations that mother found advertised in the poultry papers.†   (source)
  • Sondelius dropped from Haffkine's cholera serum to an irate: "If that fellow stares at me some more, I am going over and kill him!†   (source)
  • He was an M.B. of Edinburgh; he had served in the African bush; he had had black-water fever and cholera and most other reasonable afflictions; and he had come to St. Hubert only to recover his red blood corpuscles and to disturb the unhappy Inchcape Jones.†   (source)
  • In this mood he read in his Minneapolis paper, between a half column on the marriage of the light middleweight champion and three lines devoted to the lynching of an I.W.W. agitator, the announcement: Gustave Sundelios, well-known authority on cholera prevention, will give an address on "Heroes of Health" at the University summer school next Friday evening.†   (source)
  • Perhaps I am going to have cholera.†   (source)
  • She heard neither voices nor footsteps, and wondered if everybody had got well of the cholera and all the trouble was over.†   (source)
  • The noise and hurrying about and wailing over the cholera had frightened her, and she had been angry because no one seemed to remember that she was alive.†   (source)
  • But though I do not question the possibility of a drama in which love should be as effectively ignored as cholera is at present, there is not the slightest chance of that way out of the difficulty being taken by the Mr Redford.†   (source)
  • The wife died of cholera in Ferozepore, and O'Hara fell to drink and loafing up and down the line with the keen-eyed three-year-old baby.†   (source)
  • I carried the infection of crime with me, and she has caught it as she would the typhus fever, the cholera, the plague!†   (source)
  • I lost him the first cholera season.†   (source)
  • Hardly a week after his decease, one of the Cunard steamers brought intelligence of the death, by cholera, of Judge Pyncheon's son, just at the point of embarkation for his native land.†   (source)
  • His pervading and continual hope—a hallucination, which, in the face of all discouragement, and making light of impossibilities, haunts him while he lives, and, I fancy, like the convulsive throes of the cholera, torments him for a brief space after death—is, that finally, and in no long time, by some happy coincidence of circumstances, he shall be restored to office.†   (source)
  • The government now found it imperative on them to meet the outcry of the master class at the approaching destruction of Commerce (as desirable, had they known it, as the extinction of the cholera, which has since happily taken place).†   (source)
  • At the time of the cholera, in order to enlarge this, a piece of wall was pulled down, and three acres of land by its side purchased; but all the new portion is almost tenantless; the tombs, as heretofore, continue to crowd together towards the gate.†   (source)
  • By degrees she began to be more at home with him, but was still shy in his presence, when suddenly her mother, Arina, died of cholera.†   (source)
  • 'Take him,' says the governor—and by the Lord, Flask, if the devil didn't give John the Asiatic cholera before he got through with him, I'll eat this whale in one mouthful.†   (source)
  • A lockjaw that bends a man's head back to his heels, hydrophobia that makes him bark at his wife and babes, insanity that makes him eat grass; war, plague, cholera, famine indicate a certain ferocity in nature, which, as it had its inlet by human crime, must have its outlet by human suffering.†   (source)
  • I say this continual smoking must have been one cause, at least, of his peculiar disposition; for every one knows that this earthly air, whether ashore or afloat, is terribly infected with the nameless miseries of the numberless mortals who have died exhaling it; and as in time of the cholera, some people go about with a camphorated handkerchief to their mouths; so, likewise, against all mortal tribulations, Stubb's tobacco smoke might have operated as a sort of disinfecting agent.†   (source)
  • "First, having at the time of the cholera distinguished myself by a boundless devotion; second, by having published, at my expense, various works of public utility, such as" (and he recalled his pamphlet entitled, "Cider, its manufacture and effects," besides observation on the lanigerous plant-louse, sent to the Academy; his volume of statistics, and down to his pharmaceutical thesis); "without counting that I am a member of several learned societies" (he was member of a single one).†   (source)
  • A few minutes after the scene of confusion produced in the salons of M. Danglars by the unexpected appearance of the brigade of soldiers, and by the disclosure which had followed, the mansion was deserted with as much rapidity as if a case of plague or of cholera morbus had broken out among the guests.†   (source)
  • The cholera began to make its appearance in some places in the neighbourhood, and even 'carried off' two persons from Maryino itself.†   (source)
  • My father was a well man only four hours before he died;—it was one of the first cholera cases in New Orleans.†   (source)
  • The weather kept splendidly fine; in the distance, it is true, the cholera was threatening, but the inhabitants of that province had had time to get used to its visits.†   (source)
  • Bruneseau had given the impulse, but the cholera was required to bring about the vast reconstruction which took place later on.†   (source)
  • He believed that the dung of a black horse, mixed with sulphur, and carried in a snake-skin, was a sound remedy for cholera; but the symbolism interested him far more than the science.†   (source)
  • Do you think I show symptoms of yellow fever or cholera, that you are making post mortem arrangements with such zeal?†   (source)
  • After a while, the cholera came, and Captain Stuart died; everybody died that wanted to live,—and I,—I, though I went down to death's door,—_I lived!†   (source)
  • He and Bulstrode rode back to Middlemarch together, talking of many things—chiefly cholera and the chances of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords, and the firm resolve of the political Unions.†   (source)
  • Do not imagine that you have effected much change in the universe, because your trip-gallant is called the cholera-morbus, and because your pourree is called the cachuca.†   (source)
  • You are too clever not to see the good of a bold fresh mind in medicine, as well as in everything else; and as to cholera, I fancy, none of you are very sure what you ought to do.†   (source)
  • In the spring of 1832, although the cholera had been chilling all minds for the last three months and had cast over their agitation an indescribable and gloomy pacification, Paris had already long been ripe for commotion.†   (source)
  • A meeting was to be held in the Town-Hall on a sanitary question which had risen into pressing importance by the occurrence of a cholera case in the town.†   (source)
  • …political and social malady breaking out simultaneously in the two capitals of the kingdom, the one in the city of thought, the other in the city of toil; at Paris civil war, at Lyons servile war; in the two cities, the same glare of the furnace; a crater-like crimson on the brow of the people; the South rendered fanatic, the West troubled, the Duchesse de Berry in la Vendee, plots, conspiracies, risings, cholera, added the sombre roar of tumult of events to the sombre roar of ideas.†   (source)
  • I presume that a constitution in the susceptible state in which mine at present is, would be especially liable to fall a victim to cholera, if it visited our district.†   (source)
  • He added, "The town has done well in the way of cleansing, and finding appliances; and I think that if the cholera should come, even our enemies will admit that the arrangements in the Hospital are a public good."†   (source)
  • In the hundred to which Middlemarch belonged railways were as exciting a topic as the Reform Bill or the imminent horrors of Cholera, and those who held the most decided views on the subject were women and landholders.†   (source)
  • I can't catch cholera, either, or lockjaw, or the morbid sore throat.†   (source)
  • Not a cholera patient lies at the last gasp but I also lie at the last gasp, My face is ash-color'd, my sinews gnarl, away from me people retreat.†   (source)
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