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  • Violet felt her oatmeal and raspberries shift around in her stomach as if she had just caught the flu.†   (source)
  • Sunday I woke up feeling like I'd been sick with the flu.†   (source)
  • This was because his son died of influenza during the First World War and he still wanted to talk to him.†   (source)
  • Okay, so somebody might have the flu or something.†   (source)
  • Once we got going, I started feeling feverish, as if I'd caught the flu.†   (source)
  • My sisters Inez and Mable in Port Gibson that got eighteen kids between em and six with the flu.†   (source)
  • WHAT IT FELT LIKE WAS THE FLU, SO MUCH so that I went upstairs and took my temperature.†   (source)
  • I got to start the game at left wing because Nita was out with the flu.†   (source)
  • And there was a record made by a camp doctor at a subcamp in Kassel, Germany, that a Daniel LeBlanc contracted influenza in the first part of 1943.†   (source)
  • But change a single protein and you can make it airborne, like the flu.†   (source)
  • Either that, or he died of influenza one week later.†   (source)
  • The more Spencer stared at it, the more the color made Melissa look like she had the flu.†   (source)
  • "I think I have the flu," I croak.†   (source)
  • He was an only child; his mother had died of influenza when he was two, and though he had wanted to at one time, he had never married.†   (source)
  • Her cells were part of research into the genes that cause cancer and those that suppress it; they helped develop drugs for treating herpes, leukemia, influenza, hemophilia, and Parkinson's disease; and they've been used to study lactose digestion, sexually transmitted diseases, appendicitis, human longevity, mosquito mating, and the negative cellular effects of working in sewers.†   (source)
  • Second, Bep has the flu.†   (source)
  • "Nope, if you've got a bad stomach, it's the flu," said Hobie, grimly, just back from Bigelow with more Benadryl and Imodium, plus crackers and ginger ale from Jefferson Market.†   (source)
  • Think of this way: When it's cold outside and your teeth are chattering, you bundle up in a winter coat, and scarves, and mittens, to keep from catching the flu.†   (source)
  • The flu epidemic of 1921.†   (source)
  • A serious case of the flu, pneumonia, a broken arm, even appendicitis.†   (source)
  • It's like the flu: first a sore throat, then, inevitably, a stuffy nose and a cough.†   (source)
  • A bad winter nationwide for the flu?†   (source)
  • When the influenza epidemic hit, he was working nights in a hospital in Chicago.†   (source)
  • I thought it might be the flu, when I could still think, or food poisoning from the pieces of fat.†   (source)
  • There was diphtheria, typhus, cholera, influenza.†   (source)
  • The bassist, Damien Ghilotti, was in New Zealand, was a studio engineer now, but was happy to kndw that "Puking Sally" was still resonating with the flu-ridden.†   (source)
  • For two days I had been in bed with influenza.†   (source)
  • The first thing it did was to spawn a whole Pandora's box of DNA viruses-smallpox, influenza, and so on.†   (source)
  • This is what Mom used to do when I came down with the flu or got one of those headaches that hurt so bad I used to imagine cutting open a vein in my temple just to relieve the pressure.†   (source)
  • Thcy die of influenza, of consumption, of fevers that no one even bothers to name.†   (source)
  • It was the same way he'd looked at her when she was eleven years old and had the flu with a spiking fever.†   (source)
  • Because later in the weekend, little Chris got the flu and threw up all over the backseat.†   (source)
  • "I'm a little light-headed but I think it's a touch of the flu," she said.†   (source)
  • The word "influenza" actually means a malign influence from the stars.†   (source)
  • One evening toward the end of February, Pumpkin came down with the flu and was unable to join us at the Ichiriki.†   (source)
  • People expect you to act like one, even when you've got the flu and feel like crawling up into a ball and dying, or cursing out the cashier who shortchanged you on purpose.†   (source)
  • "My mother's afraid I'll catch the flu," he blurted and ran from the room before she could stop him.†   (source)
  • "If she don't stop being so glamorous, she going to end up with the flu."†   (source)
  • The year of my birth marked the end of the Great War; the outbreak of an influenza epidemic that killed millions throughout the world; and the visit of a delegation of the African National Congress to the Versailles peace conference to voice the grievances of the African people of South Africa.†   (source)
  • It might have been the flu or a bad reaction to Mom's sloppy Joes.†   (source)
  • We didn't know if the virus could be spread by droplets in the air, somewhat like influenza.†   (source)
  • Tim has the flu.†   (source)
  • I'll just call her up and say you got the flu— RUTH: (Laughing) Why the flu?†   (source)
  • If I say that word to you, you think of colds and the flu or perhaps something very dangerous like HIV or Ebola.†   (source)
  • Twelve years later when his wife was carried off in the influenza epidemic they still had no children.†   (source)
  • When she got sick with the flu all she wanted to do was talk.†   (source)
  • "Influenza," Reginald says.†   (source)
  • Oscar felt terrible; he was coming down with the flu, but he tried to ignore it.†   (source)
  • Libby has the flu.†   (source)
  • Terrifying dark bundles loomed where the life-size saints had stood, each with its influenza-pale expression, its elaborate wig woven from the hair of someone long dead, its rubies, pearls and emeralds of painted glass, and the rich gown of a Florentine aristocrat.†   (source)
  • His system was sturdy enough to survive a case of someone else's malaria or influenza with scarcely any discomfort at all.†   (source)
  • All over the world the cruel influenza had been taking lives.†   (source)
  • "Yes, but through all of that, I didn't catch the flu."†   (source)
  • That night she came down with a fever and stayed a whole week in his flat with the flu.†   (source)
  • I think I have the flu.†   (source)
  • They came with the suddenness of influenza and the terror of possession.†   (source)
  • Danny caught the flu in the last week of March and was in bed for more than a week.†   (source)
  • I came down with the flu, accompanied by searing headaches that lasted weeks after.†   (source)
  • The Russian influenza has been worse than you can possibly imagine!†   (source)
  • He called off his appointments today-he has the flu.†   (source)
  • THE HEAVIEST BLOW of his young life befell John Adams on May 25, 1761, when his father, Deacon John, died at age seventy, the victim of epidemic influenza that took a heavy toll in eastern Massachusetts and on older people especially.†   (source)
  • Harold's just got a touch of the flu.†   (source)
  • Like I'd had the flu but was better now.†   (source)
  • I was having a big day running, even though I had to have fluids administered intravenously throughout the game because of the flu.†   (source)
  • Finn's mother had taken an unplanned trip to Boston because his dad had the flu.†   (source)
  • But before proceedings could get under way, Ruby was admitted to the now-legendary Parkland Hospital for symptoms of the flu.†   (source)
  • I told Willow John that more than likely, it was the flu; Granma had said that it was going around practical everywheres.†   (source)
  • Sir, the first winter I was here, when I had the flu, Miss Mattie Lou came and bathed me every morning like she was my own mother.†   (source)
  • Even when I got morning sickness I pretended it was the flu.†   (source)
  • This one was a last-minute fill-in for a famous violinist who'd gone down with the flu.†   (source)
  • When I was a child, she died of influenza.†   (source)
  • Your mother says you were sick with the flu.†   (source)
  • I think this is only the flu, but ….†   (source)
  • Given that the medical profession was trying very hard to keep antivirals from becoming as useless as antibiotics, there wasn't much to be done with influenza.†   (source)
  • Doc says you'll catch the flu if you don't quit.†   (source)
  • Just this week seems like everybody aroun's got that thang they call influenza.†   (source)
  • "I have the flu," Brave Orchid said.†   (source)
  • It kills influenza microbes, for instance.†   (source)
  • This was his first day back on the road after a long siege of influenza.†   (source)
  • Ruth could not remember the last time she had had the flu or even a cold.†   (source)
  • The old man's wife died of the flu, and then it was just the old man and his youngest son.†   (source)
  • I've got the flu or something, but your Dad just called asking me to bring some food.†   (source)
  • The symptoms weren't anything like cholera, though; they seemed more like a cold—or the flu.†   (source)
  • In January, I started to panic when Aibileen got the flu.†   (source)
  • I'm writing this in my lunch hour (Angie is off sick with the flu, so we can't have lunch together).†   (source)
  • Some will feel like they have the flu for a few days.†   (source)
  • To be honest, sir, I haven't had the flu.†   (source)
  • Noah was concerned, but his father told him not to worry, assuring him that he had the flu.†   (source)
  • He has on the red-and-black Jordan Twelves that MJ wore when he had the flu during the '97 finals.†   (source)
  • I lay in bed with the flu, while the February winds howled around the apartment house.†   (source)
  • The flu roared behind my eyes, the papers swam in front of me.†   (source)
  • I'd pretended to have the flu to avoid going alone.†   (source)
  • Jack Torrance had been extremely susceptible to the flu in the last year.†   (source)
  • He died in the first wave of the influenza.†   (source)
  • But he also has the flu, so I'm helping him out.†   (source)
  • "Influenza," I say, the lie tasting sharp in my mouth.†   (source)
  • The doctor called it the flu and warned my father to keep me in bed or there might be complications.†   (source)
  • "It is influenza," I repeat, but my voice has lost its steadiness.†   (source)
  • We both stayed home for a few days after that, feeling like we were coming down with the flu.†   (source)
  • By the end of the day, I felt weaker than when I had influenza.†   (source)
  • I was suffering from a bad case of the flu and my doctors ordered me to remain at home.†   (source)
  • "You're not coming down with influenza?"†   (source)
  • Like I've got a terrible case of the flu, but I can't let Aunt Thelma see it!†   (source)
  • I said, "Is it the flu?" and her mum said, "Well, I don't know, but she's not eating."†   (source)
  • I guess the flu is making another round.†   (source)
  • And so it was not the flu that kept him from sleeping with Tereza on her first visit.†   (source)
  • She said, "Hoyt, you haven't missed a meetin' since you had the flu ten years ago.†   (source)
  • That scared her, because it seemed so much like the flu or a cold, when it wasn't.†   (source)
  • The best way to understand the Tipping Point is to imagine a hypothetical outbreak of the flu.†   (source)
  • He could see some of the animals coughing and sneezing, as if they had the flu.†   (source)
  • They are overworked with their own influenza cases.†   (source)
  • "Influenza," she repeats, glancing slyly at the others.†   (source)
  • Each day brought more influenza victims to the hospital.†   (source)
  • Rachel, if the influenza spreads, your father and I are going to have all we can manage.†   (source)
  • One of our Kikuyu nurses recovered from the influenza.†   (source)
  • We don't know how quickly the influenza will spread."†   (source)
  • Her father and mother died from the influenza.†   (source)
  • Rumors about the influenza spread as quickly as the disease.†   (source)
  • When I asked why, Father said, "It's influenza, Rachel, and it's extremely contagious."†   (source)
  • The classes will not be meeting—the children in a group might spread the flu.†   (source)
  • It was the first time I'd heard her speak since the junkyard, and I was worried about: how bad she sounded, like somebody with the flu.†   (source)
  • I remember Cora, earlier in the spring, staggering around even though she had the flu, holding on to the door frames when she thought no one was looking, being careful not to cough.†   (source)
  • My mom keeps bringing me food and I have to throw it out the window—I haven't been outside in two days, but I don't know how much longer I can go on pretending I have the flu.†   (source)
  • Twice I made myself so sick in anticipation of it that my mother kept me home because she thought I had contracted the flu.†   (source)
  • For instance, we were going to visit my side of the family over this past Christmas, but they all had the flu.†   (source)
  • The first boon has been that when the flu arrived on campus last week, we knew in minutes who brought it.†   (source)
  • Possibly I have the flu and this is why I'm allowed to stay in bed, even though I can tell I've been asleep a long time.†   (source)
  • My father was born when Edith was eighteen, and after him two girls, Martha and Louise, who died in the flu epidemic of 1917.†   (source)
  • Yours, Anne M. Frank FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1944 My dearest darling, Everything turned out all right after all; Bep just had a sore throat, not the flu, and Mr. Kugler got a medical certificate to excuse him from the work detail.†   (source)
  • I didn't get the flu.†   (source)
  • He had the flu.†   (source)
  • I was home sick with the flu.†   (source)
  • Jonah was in bed with the flu, which didn't make it any easier, since she'd had to take care of him as well.†   (source)
  • I think I have the flu or something.†   (source)
  • She's got the flu," I said.†   (source)
  • For my part, I've seen her when she's been sick with the flu, and it makes no difference to me how her hair looks when she gets up in the morning.†   (source)
  • Big influenza epidemic.†   (source)
  • You think it was the flu?†   (source)
  • I considered taking the children, traveling with him, but used the excuse of an epidemic influenza in that part of the world to remain at home (in protest of his refusal to allow Sukeena to attend me on the voyage).†   (source)
  • I try to remember the last time any of them were in my room, and the only thing I can come up with is a time four years ago when I really did have the flu.†   (source)
  • Alessandro went to the long table, where he put his face close to the brass carriage clock that Luciana had always taken the trouble to wind, even when he was not there, even when his mother was dying of influenza.†   (source)
  • Another former director of the CIA, Allen Dulles, died of a severe case of the flu in 1969, at the age of seventy-five.†   (source)
  • "She says I'm getting the flu."†   (source)
  • "It's the flu, I think," Caroline said.†   (source)
  • Rather, I left on Wednesday, January 10, 1979, the day news spread through the city like influenza that four Eritrean guerrillas posing as passengers had commandeered an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 707 and forced it to fly to Khartoum, Sudan.†   (source)
  • "So," I put in, "it's the flu, right?†   (source)
  • Meantime, the entire household at Richmond Hill was stricken with influenza, with the exception of the Vice President.†   (source)
  • They know 'bout the flu.†   (source)
  • Although weakened by my battle with influenza, I needed work, and I decided that Robbinsville, North Carolina, would be our new home for a while if I could find a job.†   (source)
  • Cigarette smoking would be less like the flu and more like the common cold: easily caught but easily defeated.†   (source)
  • Everyone in town seems to have the flu.†   (source)
  • Exactly like I had the flu.†   (source)
  • Then Reb Saunders became ill, and at the same time my father also took to his bed with the flu, a severe case that bordered on pneumonia for a while and frightened me terribly.†   (source)
  • Dad had the flu.†   (source)
  • Then, in May, with the weather unseasonably wet and cold and influenza rampant in the city, Washington was suddenly taken so ill it appeared the one unifying force respected by all was in mortal jeopardy.†   (source)
  • After about ten minutes, during which they talked about the flu epidemic raging at the time, the man said, We've given your case a lot of thought.†   (source)
  • With those getting sick and those getting well so perfectly in balance, the flu chugs along at a steady but unspectacular clip through the rest of the summer and the fall.†   (source)
  • No. It's …. the flu.†   (source)
  • She had come down with the flu.†   (source)
  • Imagine a virus with the infectiousness of influenza and the mortality rate of the black plague in the Middle Ages—that's what we're talking about."†   (source)
  • Can the flu virus do that?†   (source)
  • The Ebola Reston virus jumped quickly from room to room, and as it blossomed in the monkeys, it seemed to mutate spontaneously into something that looked quite a lot like influenza.†   (source)
  • These three characteristics — one, contagiousness; two, the fact that little causes can have big effects; and three, that change happens not gradually but at one dramatic moment — are the same three principles that define how measles moves through a grade-school classroom or the flu attacks every winter.†   (source)
  • It was frightening—it was as if Ebola could change its character fast—and could look like the flu.†   (source)
  • It looked as if he had the flu.†   (source)
  • Those 1,100, in turn, are now passing on their virus to 55,000 people as well, so that by day three there are 1,210 Manhattanites with the flu and ENDNOTES by day four 1,331 and by the end of the week there are nearly 2,000. and so on up, in an exponential spiral, until Manhattan has a full-blown flu epidemic on its hands by Christmas Day.†   (source)
  • An airborne strain of Ebola could emerge and circle around the world in about six weeks, like the flu, killing large numbers of people, or it might forever remain a secret feeder at the margins, taking down humans a few at a time.†   (source)
  • I had heard that in Nairobi there were cases of influenza in both the native hospital and the hospital for whites.†   (source)
  • When we learned of the many deaths from influenza, we guessed what had happened to Valerie and why the Pritchards had sent you in her place.†   (source)
  • Mr. Pritchard said, "I have cabled the mission board that your parents have succumbed to the influenza epidemic."†   (source)
  • Kanoro, does Mother have influenza?†   (source)
  • I told about the influenza, my parents' death, the fear of the orphanage where they had grown up, the Pritchards' convincing me that Grandfather was near death and that I would be saving his life.†   (source)
  • The influenza killed my parents.†   (source)
  • In British East Africa, where I was living, the influenza began in the seaport of Mombasa, traveled three hundred miles to the city of Nairobi, and from there crept onto the farms and plantations and into the Kikuyu and Masai shambas.†   (source)
  • It's like influenza.†   (source)
  • A little germ like influenza carried off five maybe ten million people in a single winter.†   (source)
  • He had taken influenza, they told Eugene, from one of Daisy's children.†   (source)
  • I rang up her doctor, who came round at once and diagnosed the usual influenza.†   (source)
  • Both of us on the sofa, and I had the flu.†   (source)
  • They had to close down on account of the flu.†   (source)
  • 'It was a lucky thing for you I had the influenza,' she said.†   (source)
  • Dysentery, influenza, typhus—scalding, choking, death.†   (source)
  • ' "Then Arthur came down with the flu and I had to get up and give him the sofa.†   (source)
  • Mrs Van Hopper and her influenza did not exist for me.†   (source)
  • They have all been down sick with the flu.†   (source)
  • Do you think that they, with their Battles, Famine, Black Death and Serfdom, were less enlightened than we are, with our Wars, Blockade, Influenza and Conscription?†   (source)
  • We have almost grown accustomed to it; war is a cause of death like cancer and tuberculosis, like influenza and dysentery.†   (source)
  • Friday, she had to work straight through--a sixteen-hour shift--because the company was short-handed on account of an influenza epidemic.†   (source)
  • And it happened that at the beginning of December that year-1910—there was a good deal of influenza about, and Milward's suddenly found themselves short-handed.†   (source)
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