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- He needed vitamin D for the boy or he was going to get rickets.† (source)
- Ya drink water an' sugar an' all ya get is rickets.† (source)
- Mrs. Rickets, a woman of medium stature with blond hair pulled to the nape of her neck, began asking questions.† (source)
- While a medical student, he dissected a good many women — from the labouring classes, naturally — and their spines and musculature were on the average no feebler than those of men, although many suffered from rickets.† (source)
- These are the stigmata of rickets.† (source)
- Their women worked themselves to death, their mules succumbed to worms and their children were crippled by rickets and perished from fever, but every Sunday morning The Word leaked out of little white-wood sanctuaries where preachers thrust ragged Bibles at the rafters and promised them that while sickness and poverty and Lucifer might take their families, the soul of man never dies.† (source)
- I certainly don't want to contract rickets or typhoid fever or whatever it is you catch from drinking contaminated water.† (source)
- Rickets and shingles were back, and perhaps polio was coming back, too.† (source)
- She had rather, she told me vehemently, spend her life with a grasshopper who had rickets, than spend one more night in bed with me.† (source)
- Rickets is too common in some poor countries.
- She says she knows all about teeth and bones and rickets but beggars can't be choosers.† (source)
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- When Mrs. Rickets asked why some of the white children objected to going to school with us, Sammy Dean replied: "Well, it's racial, marrying each other."† (source)
- It was sponsored by a Norwegian reporter, Mrs. Jorumn Rickets, who had set it up with Ernie, Minnijean, and me, and the group spotlighted as staunch troublemakers: Sammy Dean Parker, Kaye Bacon, and their crowd.† (source)
- All the infants in the croup room appeared related because they all had the stigmata of rickets to a greater or lesser degree.† (source)
- When labor began, the baby's head jammed against her pelvic bones, the pelvic inlet already narrowed by rickets.† (source)
- "The croup following measles, on top of malnutrition, on top of rickets," he said to me under his breath.† (source)
- How came he here from the clean Dutch thrift of his youth into this vast lost earth of rickets?† (source)
- The children have rickets.† (source)
- Only the earth endured—the gigantic American earth, bearing upon its awful breast a world of flimsy rickets.† (source)
- It was a world of rickets.† (source)
- Sometimes, when Eliza awoke to find her servants gone, he was sent down into Niggertown to capture a new one: in that city of rickets he searched into their fetid shacks, past the slow stench of little rills of mire and sewage, in fetid cellars, through all the rank labyrinth of the hill-sprawled settlement.† (source)
- At any rate he was wretchedly sick and undersized; he had the rickets, and though he was over three years old, he was no bigger than an ordinary child of one.† (source)
- I, for a time, at least, have worked thy cure; Thy fancy's rickets plague thee not at all: Had I not been, so hadst thou, sure, Walked thyself off this earthly ball Why here to caverns, rocky hollows slinking, Sit'st thou, as 'twere an owl a-blinking?† (source)
- For how was it possible to believe that those large brown protuberant eyes in Silas Marner's pale face really saw nothing very distinctly that was not close to them, and not rather that their dreadful stare could dart cramp, or rickets, or a wry mouth at any boy who happened to be in the rear?† (source)
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