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  • The mayor should quarantine them on Hog Island for a few weeks and the fever would pass.†  (source)
  • In one of his past crimes, he crept into a quarantine zone by tying up a street policeman.†  (source)
  • All interstates were on alert, and a quarantine belt was now in place.†  (source)
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  • The small sitting room was lit only by a table lamp and the bright fluorescents in the quarantine.†  (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)
  • By means of ejaculations and prayers he stored up ungrudgingly for the souls in purgatory centuries of days and quarantines and years; yet the spiritual triumph which he felt in achieving with ease so many fabulous ages of canonical penances did not wholly reward his zeal of prayer, since he could never know how much temporal punishment he had remitted by way of suffrage for the agonizing souls; and fearful lest in the midst of the purgatorial fire, which differed from the infernal only in that it was not everlasting, his penance might avail no more than a drop of moisture, he drove his soul daily through an increasing circle of works of supererogation.†  (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)
  • One of the obvious choices for a quarantine zone because the weather's recovered pretty quickly there since the sun flares.†  (source)
  • Quarantined or something," she said.†  (source)
  • All over the East Coast other communities imposed quarantines on people from Philadelphia.†  (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)
  • her tiny garden, which she shared with half a dozen people, and the batty Englishwoman who'd filled it with ailing tortoises she'd smuggled from the south of France ("they all die, of cold and malnutrition — it's really cruel—she doesn't feed them properly, crumbled bread, can you imagine, I buy them turtle food at the pet store without telling her") — and how terribly she wanted a dog, but of course it was hard in London with the quarantine which they had in Switzerland too, how did she always end up living in all these dog-unfriendly places?†  (source)
  • I should be quarantined.†  (source)
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