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  • And it's fine, though her little stash is about as welcome in the pantry as a fresh-killed mouse brought in by the cat—or perhaps, being vegetarian, less so—and is quarantined on a shelf in the mudroom "so no one gets confused," as Dina says.†   (source)
  • In the picture he'd been asleep in bed, just as he was now Had he been quarantined, infected with some sleeping sickness?†   (source)
  • The room was quarantined on the seventh floor of the palace's research wing, but the emperor had been made as comfortable as possible.†   (source)
  • During the second, a Level Two drill meant for minor crises--such as a temporary quarantine while citizens were tested for contagion during a flu outbreak--we were supposed to return to our living quarters.†   (source)
  • The real purpose of the seclusion room, though, was to quarantine people who'd gone bananas.†   (source)
  • Unless the groundlings have added a whorehouse to that quarantine island they leased us.†   (source)
  • We were not At in the camp proper but in a kind of quarantine compound outside.†   (source)
  • We are quarantined.†   (source)
  • Renwick Smallpox Hospital was designed by architect Jacob Renwick and intended to quarantine the poorest victims of Manhattan's uncontrollable smallpox epidemic.†   (source)
  • Her parents and three brothers were separated and placed under individual quarantine, and the entire neighborhood was subjected to strict medical supervision.†   (source)
  • Rest in peace In memoriam From the stars to the heavens She was on the quarantine deck, the oldest section of Walden.†   (source)
  • Quarantined or something," she said.†   (source)
  • He didn't approve of quarantine for AIDS.†   (source)
  • The head told us: "You're staying here three days in quarantine.†   (source)
  • For a week, patients who arrived at the doors were turned away, while sixty-seven people were quarantined inside the hospital, mostly medical staff.†   (source)
  • When one cousin caught the measles or mumps, we were all quarantined together so as to get that childhood illness over and done with.†   (source)
  • It made him happy to live with a sister again—even if it was a only for a few days, and even if Hazel insisted on partitioning her side of the room with sheets for privacy so it looked like a quarantine zone.†   (source)
  • I should be quarantined.†   (source)
  • "You mean conduct a quarantine inspection, check her for seaworthiness, maybe make sure they're not smuggling drugs into the country?"†   (source)
  • After his mail carrier learned of the death threats, with the anthrax scare still on everyone's mind, she began quarantining envelopes he received that were sent without return addresses and passing them on to the FBI.†   (source)
  • They rolled Yossarian away on a stretcher into the room with the other soldier who saw everything twice and quarantined everyone else in the ward for another fourteen days.†   (source)
  • How absurd it had been for her to have pined to come ashore all those days they'd been quarantined.†   (source)
  • After the customary period of quarantine, they were permitted to leave the island, and Jewish welfare workers helped them settle in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.†   (source)
  • Every astronaut returning from the moon would be quarantined in the LRL for three weeks, until decontamination was complete.†   (source)
  • For these four weeks I have never left the confines of my tent, quarantined from all but the natives.†   (source)
  • He had managed to create a quarantine, which meant that he would be able to control the flow of information.†   (source)
  • There, the story of the quarantine and its costs grew even more vivid to me.†   (source)
  • JFK promises to "quarantine" Cuba, using the might of the U.S. Navy to prevent any Soviet vessel from entering Cuban waters.†   (source)
  • They were thinking of ways to isolate and quarantine and survive.†   (source)
  • He had suspected this—dreaded this— but had nevertheless harbored a slim hope that Rowan's quarantine had just been a paranoid measure.†   (source)
  • I had one of the sergeants announce final call for the camp in this regard, as I hoped to quarantine anyone who might infect a girl, who in turn would certainly transmit it back among the men many times over, but it was very close to the time of their visits and only two men came forward complaining of symptoms, both of whom were in the ward already.†   (source)
  • The freezer smelled so bad it would have been quarantined if health officials ever caught wind of it!†   (source)
  • Authority red tape, quarantine perhaps; I was too young to know.†   (source)
  • Even at the worst, I'll have proved that man can't be kept in quarantine forever.†   (source)
  • It was out of the glare of daylight and the bustle of business, when Jews disappeared into their domestic quarantine and the seclusion of their sinister and Asiatic worship—with its cloudy suspicion of incense and rams' horns and sacrificial offerings, tambourines and veiled women, lugubrious anthems and keening banshee wails in a dead language—that the trouble began for an eleven-year-old Presbyterian.†   (source)
  • The Newark health authorities nailed a quarantine notice on the front door to warn the neighborhood against us.†   (source)
  • The muddy creatures that had provided the people of the island with a way to keep their families alive were placed under permanent quarantine.†   (source)
  • We had a case of measles on board, so I'm in a kind of quarantine.†   (source)
  • This quarantine will be extended, if needed, to other types of cargo and carriers.†   (source)
  • The ranch was quarantined due to fears of mad cow disease.
  • I'm sweating by the time I near our house, still quiet and taped off as part of the quarantine.†   (source)
  • The ship would be quarantined, it would hoist the yellow flag and sail in a state of emergency.†   (source)
  • I asked, horrified, imagining a flash cholera outbreak that had wiped out everyone in quarantine.†   (source)
  • Cinder netlinked so she could trace the hover's path to the quarantine.†   (source)
  • Barracks 8 was in the quarantine compound.†   (source)
  • He went on, "Both Guantánamo and Cuba's AIDS sanitorium were quarantines.†   (source)
  • All over the East Coast other communities imposed quarantines on people from Philadelphia.†   (source)
  • THE HOVER RUMBLED TO A STOP OUTSIDE THE QUARANTINE.†   (source)
  • ROLL CALL CAME at 4:30 A.M. here as it had in quarantine.†   (source)
  • But keeping the ones who were near Penn Station quarantined was a good idea.†   (source)
  • He just visited a house in one of Lake's quarantine zones, a house with a three-lined X on its door.†   (source)
  • The small sitting room was lit only by a table lamp and the bright fluorescents in the quarantine.†   (source)
  • These I steer clear of—the soldiers have marked them as quarantine zones.†   (source)
  • With the emergency centers quarantined, the trickle of new food had come to a halt.†   (source)
  • COMM RECEIVED FROM NEW BEIJING DISTRICT 29, LETUMOSIS QUARANTINE.†   (source)
  • QUARANTINE LIFTED ON LAKE AND WINTER SECTORS.†   (source)
  • Dirty, smelly, diseased, quarantined….†   (source)
  • "Did you assault a cadet standing guard at the edge of the Alta sector's quarantine zone?"†   (source)
  • She scanned her ID and gave it the quarantine's coordinates before settling into the far back.†   (source)
  • "There's been a disturbance at the District 29 quarantine.†   (source)
  • I tied him up and delivered food to some quarantined families.†   (source)
  • She thought of Peony, alone in the quarantine.†   (source)
  • They've already been quarantined, anyway.†   (source)
  • Above the door was a brand-new netscreen flashing, LETUMOSIS QUARANTINE.†   (source)
  • "Lab four isn't set up for quarantine," said Li.†   (source)
  • The sterile quarantine room was so bright he had to squint into the glare.†   (source)
  • Dr. Erland glared into the quarantine room, a growl humming in the back of his throat.†   (source)
  • He was admitted to the quarantine yesterday with stage two letumosis.†   (source)
  • COMM RECEIVED FROM NEW BEIJING DISTRICT 29, LETUMOSIS QUARANTINE.†   (source)
  • I went to the quarantines today . to visit my sister.†   (source)
  • I just can't be bothered with a trip to the quarantines today."†   (source)
  • No one ever put up a fight when being taken to the quarantines.†   (source)
  • As soon as more people started getting sick, she quarantined him.†   (source)
  • The Hazleton monkey house was known as the Reston Primate Quarantine Unit.†   (source)
  • The Navy boarded a ship yesterday at the quarantine line.†   (source)
  • "Our story about the quarantined island south of Java is starting to fall apart," she said.†   (source)
  • "So …. let's bag this lame quarantine crap."†   (source)
  • There was a mystery developing in the Reston Primate Quarantine Unit.†   (source)
  • Maybe that civilian clerk at the quarantine desk had never seen two non-coms kiss each other before.†   (source)
  • One of the obvious choices for a quarantine zone because the weather's recovered pretty quickly there since the sun flares.†   (source)
  • THEY TAKE ME to a quarantined floor at the base hospital reserved for plague victims, nicknamed the Zombie Ward, where I get an armful of morphine and a powerful cocktail of antiviral drugs.†   (source)
  • Maybe they were trying to stop people from getting out through the gates; there was an attempt to enforce a quarantine, as he recalls.†   (source)
  • I caught it just a few weeks ago, tested positive at the quarantine checkpoint—government's trying their damnedest to keep the sick and the well separate.†   (source)
  • Stomach viruses were rare on Phoenix, and anyone who seemed vaguely contagious was required to spend the duration of their illness in quarantine.†   (source)
  • I remember lice from the boat—Mam was terrified of us kids getting it, and she checked our heads every day, quarantining us when we heard about outbreaks in other cabins.†   (source)
  • AFTER A DAY SPENT SHIVERING IN OMORI'S QUARANTINE area, Louie was led into the main body of the camp, an enormous compound crowded with some nine hundred prisoners.†   (source)
  • "I'm pretty sure that's not something you're supposed to see during a nice leisurely stroll through a quarantined city in the middle of the day.†   (source)
  • Diseases were rare on the ship; there hadn't been any epidemics since the last outbreak they'd quarantined on Walden.†   (source)
  • And as hard as the world has tried, the virus always finds its way through the cracks of the quarantines.†   (source)
  • The hastily assembled epidemic managers called the shots — field clinics, isolation tents; whole towns, then whole cities quarantined.†   (source)
  • In 1993 an American federal judge had described the quarantine in harsh terms and ended it, ruling it unconstitutional.†   (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)
  • Now, whenever there was the slightest threat of illness, anyone infected was quarantined, kept far from the rest of the Colony's vulnerable population—the last of the human race.†   (source)
  • Betsie and I put our belongings into the pillowcases we had brought from Scheveningen: toothbrushes, needles and thread, a small bottle of Davitamon oil that had come in a Red Cross package, Nollie's blue sweater, which was the only thing we had brought with us when we left the quarantine camp ten weeks before.†   (source)
  • But the commander of the patrol was not satisfied, and he ordered them to leave the bay and wait in Las Mercedes Marsh until two o'clock in the afternoon, while the forms were prepared for placing the ship in quarantine.†   (source)
  • The other quarantine of HIV patients in Cuba, the Cuban government's, had been conducted in a place called Santiago de las Vegas.†   (source)
  • I don't need to be quarantined.†   (source)
  • "Quarantine has never been shown to be an effective measure in controlling sexually transmitted diseases," he said.†   (source)
  • In any event, Dr. Juvenal Urbino alerted his colleagues and had the authorities warn the neighboring ports so that they could locate and quarantine the contaminated schooner, and he had to restrain the military commander of the city who wanted to declare martial law and initiate the therapeutic strategy of firing the cannon every quarter hour.†   (source)
  • The quarantine that was supposed to last only for a day or two was now into its fourth, and people were trying to escape out over the rivers.†   (source)
  • It contained a chapter comparing the two ways in which AIDS had been managed on the island of Cuba—the Cuban approach and the American quarantine of HIV-positive Haitian refugees, conducted in the early nineties on the Guantánamo naval base.†   (source)
  • When Pérez took over a few years later, he let in visitors, had the tall surrounding wall torn down—"Because reporters came here and they were climbing trees"—and little by little changed the rules, first allowing patients to leave on passes once they'd shown they could be trusted to practice safe sex, and eventually lifting the quarantine altogether.†   (source)
  • Did they stop at quarantine on first?†   (source)
  • In the room Farmer read aloud from a book by a respected American political scientist who had also compared the two quarantines, calling them roughly equivalent.†   (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)
  • He had interviewed some of the Haitians quarantined on Guantánamo, and from them heard stories of wretched treatment at the hands of the U.S. military—of food with maggots in it, of compulsory blood tests and compulsory injections of the long-acting contraceptive Depo-Provera—its effects can last up to eighteen months—of beatings when they protested.†   (source)
  • "I did see you visit your family's quarantine zone last night, and I overheard some guards talking about today's sweep.†   (source)
  • Once we made the decision, we started telling everyone in the hallway, and the quarantine on the first floor, that we were having a birthday party for Luke.†   (source)
  • 'But," said the president, pausing and sighing, regret to inform the citizens of New York that in the short term, the CDC has requested, and I have granted, a temporary quarantine of the island of Manhattan due to an uncontrolled series of outbreaks of waterborne diseases.†   (source)
  • He breaks into a quarantine zone, enters a house marked with a three-lined X, and reappears several minutes later.†   (source)
  • JumboTrons, always on, regardless of power shortages, display the latest warnings about floods and quarantines.†   (source)
  • We'd initially quarantined the people returning from Penn downstairs, but we'd given up after capturing Paul's gang.†   (source)
  • That's the worst weakness you can have, right up there with having a family stuck in a quarantined zone or a street orphan needing you.†   (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)
  • Unconfirmed reports of bird flu have been springing up all over the country, with the latest in San Francisco and Los Angeles, where health officials have quarantined two major hospitals….†   (source)
  • The story was always the same: a dozen or so poor folk (usually teens, sometimes older) causing trouble in one of the sectors, angry about the plague quarantines or taxes.†   (source)
  • The real disaster only became apparent when they quarantined the island "temporarily," and the world had watched in horror as they saw people drowning and freezing to death as they tried to escape across the Hudson and East Rivers.†   (source)
  • The quarantine had been near empty before; now it was overflowing with victims—every age, every gender.†   (source)
  • She didn't look at any of the other patients as she made her way to the quarantine's exit, but then she heard her name.†   (source)
  • "Patients are strictly forbidden from leaving the quarantine area," it said, nudging Cinder back into the shadows of the doorway.†   (source)
  • This quarantine had been hastily constructed in just the past weeks as the sickness crept closer to the city.†   (source)
  • But the med-droids must not have been programmed to deal with healthy people coming into the quarantines; they hardly even noticed her as she passed.†   (source)
  • Everyone at the quarantines is ill.†   (source)
  • The thought of Peony all alone in the quarantines spurred her out of her pile of blankets with a stifled groan.†   (source)
  • There was no proof she had it yet, but if they took her to the quarantines, she didn't stand a chance.†   (source)
  • It reminded her of the sterile med-droids in the labs and the quarantines, but this machine did not have scalpels and syringes hidden in its torso.†   (source)
  • One of Cinder's few memories of the man was of him being carted away to the quarantines while Adri raved at how he could not leave her with this thing.†   (source)
  • She was taken to the quarantines yesterday. if you do find an antidote, or anything that even holds promise as an antidote, I want her to be the first one to get it.†   (source)
  • Until Dr. Erland was able to figure out how to deposit the payment into Cinder's account without Adri finding out, she had no money and no hover, and her only human friend was a prisoner herself in the quarantines.†   (source)
  • Footage of her mad dash from the quarantines had been played repeatedly on the screens too, but the recording never showed her face, and Adri had been too distracted—by the ball and the funeral that Cinder had not been invited to attend—to realize the mystery girl was living under her own roof.†   (source)
  • It had been three days after they had come back, three days during which all of them had been quarantined.†   (source)
  • On Wednesday they found out that our naval blockade was in effect and that fourteen Soviet ships were nearing the quarantine line.†   (source)
  • So effective was the quarantine that the day came when the emergency situation was accepted as a natural thing and life was organized in such a way that work picked up its rhythm again and no one worried any more about the useless habit of sleeping.†   (source)
  • That was the most illogical Thanksgiving he could ever remember spending, and his thoughts returned wishfully to his halcyon fourteen-day quarantine in the hospital the year before; but even that idyll had ended on a tragic note; he was still in good health when the quarantine period was over, and they told him again that he had to get out and go to war.†   (source)
  • Oh, sure, we'll have a week or so to conduct, uh, safety and quarantine inspections, to make sure they weren't trying to smuggle cocaine into the country."†   (source)
  • Remember hoping that measures we had taken in lieu of quarantine were effective—or half of L-City would be down with colds or worse.†   (source)
  • He said gravely, "I have determined that the girl (he always called her this, never referring to any of the others) is a risk and should be quarantined periodically.†   (source)
  • He'd seen Magnus only twice, briefly, since they'd returned from Edomonce when the Silent Brothers had released them from quarantine, and once again today in the Council Hall.†   (source)
  • Said she's quarantined.†   (source)
  • William Mompesson had two children with his wife, Catherine, and sent them away from Eyam before the quarantine was agreed upon.†   (source)
  • Appropriately, the destroyer USS Joseph Kennedy Jr., named for the president's late brother, is the ship tasked with enforcing the risky quarantine.†   (source)
  • Passage from one floor to another was not free; personnel had to undergo decontamination and quarantine procedures in passing either up or down.†   (source)
  • The Greek captain had the Madagascar seaman hoist the Portuguese flag under which the ship was registered, but because of the shipboard fever the Calangute was promptly quarantined, Portuguese flag or no Portuguese flag.†   (source)
  • I'LL NEVER KNOW HOW, but Ghosh understood what I was going through after the pantry episode; perhaps he recognized that I was quarantined from Genet and that Shiva didn't share in that experience; perhaps he saw my confusion when Zemui was around.†   (source)
  • There are still nearly a dozen Soviet vessels steering directly toward the quarantine line—and these ships show no signs of turning around.†   (source)
  • Quarantining people and getting the bodies in one place—she said they'd been sure to wear gloves and masks—and helping deliver food from house to house.†   (source)
  • We Loonies don't know how lucky we are, living in a place that has tightest of quarantines, almost no vermin and what we have controlled by vacuum anytime necessary.†   (source)
  • They agreed they had no idea what was wrong with the soldier who saw everything twice, and they rolled him away into a room in the corridor and quarantined everyone else in the ward for fourteen days.†   (source)
  • Soviet ships have every right to enter Cuban waters and unload any cargo they like and that the American naval quarantine—a fancy way of saying "blockade," which is an act of war—is reprehensible.†   (source)
  • She did not see how the virus could be contained unless the monkey house was set up for quarantine with an independently filtered air supply.†   (source)
  • Imported monkeys must be held in quarantine for a month before they are shipped anywhere else in the United States.†   (source)
  • "You, Mr. President, are not declaring a quarantine," Khrushchev dictates to a secretary, "but rather are setting forth an ultimatum and threatening that if we do not give in to your demands you will use force.†   (source)
  • Much of the medical staff was now under quarantine inside the hospital, but the soldiers made sure that the quarantine was enforced.†   (source)
  • A doctor gives her a shot for malaria and tells her that she should be in quarantine for her illness.†   (source)
  • Dan Dalgard, a doctor of veterinary medicine, was the consulting veterinarian at the Reston Primate Quarantine Unit.†   (source)
  • But there is no room in the quarantine ward at Mama Yemo Hospital; so she leaves the hospital and hails another taxi.†   (source)
  • In March 1990, while the second outbreak at Reston was happening, the C.D.C. slapped a heavy set of restrictions on monkey importers, tightening the testing and quarantine procedures.†   (source)
  • The first option was to seal off the monkey colony and watch the monkeys die—and also keep a close watch on the people who had handled the monkeys and possibly put them into quarantine as well.†   (source)
  • For a short while, until life could re-establish itself there, the Reston Primate Quarantine Unit was the only building in the world where nothing lived, nothing at all.†   (source)
  • It was reverse quarantine, an ancient practice in Africa, where a village bars itself from strangers during a time of disease, and drives away outsiders who appear.†   (source)
  • The surgeons who had operated on Musoke, remembering only too well that they had been "up to the elbows in blood," sweated in quarantine for two weeks while they wondered if they were going to break with Marburg.†   (source)
  • The C.D.C. also temporarily revoked the licenses of three companies, Hazleton Research Products, the Charles River Primates Corporation, and Worldwide Primates, charging these companies with violations of quarantine rules.†   (source)
  • At the Fleet landing field I went through the exit gate with my nose in the air and strode up to the quarantine desk to have my orders stamped.†   (source)
  • Our resolution will call for the prompt dismantling and withdrawal of all offensive weapons in Cuba, under the supervision of U.N. observers, before the quarantine can be lifted.†   (source)
  • Acting, therefore, in the defense of our own security and of the entire Western Hemisphere, and under the authority entrusted to me by the Constitution as endorsed by the resolution of the Congress, I have directed that the following initial steps be taken immediately: First: To halt this offensive buildup, a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba is being initiated.†   (source)
  • Haul her out and slap a quarantine on her hospital door.†   (source)
  • Only a few ships, detained in quarantine, were anchored in the bay.†   (source)
  • The boy Roger had arrived home with measles; they were all in quarantine.†   (source)
  • Paneloux is prepared to replace Rambert at the quarantine station.†   (source)
  • Toward the end of December he received a letter from M. Othon, who was still in quarantine.†   (source)
  • Quarantine or not, she's under suspicion, which means that they are, too.†   (source)
  • The moment the town was put into quarantine he had sent her a wire.†   (source)
  • Doctors of preventive medicine, men at the borders who look for fruit flies, for Japanese beetle, men who quarantine the sick trees and root them out and burn them, men of knowledge.†   (source)
  • The same was true of the statistics of the effects of anti-plague inoculations on the persons in his quarantine station.†   (source)
  • Mme. Othon and her little girl could be given rooms in the quarantine hospital under Rambert's charge.†   (source)
  • The walls served another purpose: they screened the unfortunates in quarantine from the view of people on the road.†   (source)
  • The day before Castel called on Rieux, M. Othon's son had fallen ill and all the family had to go into quarantine.†   (source)
  • In the early days a mere formality, quarantine had now been reorganized by Rieux and Rambert on very strict lines.†   (source)
  • On inquiry it came out that Mme. Othon was in quarantine; she had been nursing her mother, who had succumbed to plague.†   (source)
  • It was found, after inquiry, that people who had returned from quarantine were responsible for these fires.†   (source)
  • To form a correct idea about the courage and composure talked about by our journalists you had only to visit one of the quarantine depots or isolation camps established by our authorities.†   (source)
  • His wife, recently released from quarantine, had gone to the Prefect's office to protest and had been rudely treated; they had told her that the office never made mistakes.†   (source)
  • Needless to say, the family was notified, but in most cases, since the deceased had lived with them, its members were in quarantine and thus immobilized.†   (source)
  • He had explained that his presence in Oran was purely accidental, he had no connection with the town and no reasons for staying in it; that being so, he surely was entitled to leave, even if, once outside the town, he had to undergo a spell of quarantine.†   (source)
  • By this time no public place or building had escaped conversion into a hospital or quarantine camp with the exception of the Prefect's offices, which were needed for administrative purposes and committee meetings.†   (source)
  • Such was the case of M. Othon, the magistrate, evacuated from the quarantine camp; Tarrou said of him that "he'd had no luck," but one couldn't tell if he had in mind the life or the death of M. Othon.†   (source)
  • The magistrate stated that his quarantine period was over; unfortunately the date of his admission to camp seemed to have been mislaid by the secretariat, and if he was still detained it was certainly due to a mistake.†   (source)
  • In the evening, at Rieux's apartment, where he had come to live now that the hotel was requisitioned as a quarantine center, he paid little or no attention to Grand and the doctor when they read over the day's statistics.†   (source)
  • The residences of sick people were to be shut up and disinfected; persons living in the same house were to go into quarantine; burials were to be supervised by the local authorities-in a manner which will be described later on.†   (source)
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