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  • The camp organizers set up a table inside where they removed our shoes and shirts and inspected our toes for athlete's foot, checked us for measles and chicken pox, then sent us outside to board a yellow school bus for the long journey to upstate New York.†   (source)
  • His father was an amateur jazz pianist, so Russo's ear was tuned from an early age, but it wasn't until he got both the measles and the mumps simultaneously, in third grade, that he discovered classical music.†   (source)
  • In the early fifties, scientists were just beginning to understand viruses, so as Henrietta's cells arrived in labs around the country, researchers began exposing them to viruses of all kinds—herpes, measles, mumps, fowl pox, equine encephalitis—to study how each one entered cells, reproduced, and spread.†   (source)
  • She drew back her shoulder blades as if preparing for a measles shot—something painful but necessary.†   (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)
  • Measles or mumps?†   (source)
  • At SIS-C slaughterhouses, visibly diseased animals cattle infected with measles and tapeworms, covered with abscesses were being slaughtered.†   (source)
  • Ebola is distantly related to measles, mumps, and rabies.†   (source)
  • It came about from a trivial gum or tooth infection which spread because of malnutrition and neglect, often during an episode of measles or chicken pox.†   (source)
  • The child's name and age were printed under each angel, sometimes with cause of death or personal comments by the family, and as the van drew closer Edgar could see entries for TB, AIDS, beatings, drive-by shootings, measles, asthma, abandonment at birth—left in dumpster, forgot in car, left in Glad Bag stormy night.†   (source)
  • Maybe it's the measles.†   (source)
  • I'd feel sorry that so many Haitian children still died of measles—though not in Zanmi Lasante's catchment area—but I'd also feel that I could never be sorry enough to satisfy him.†   (source)
  • Babies came to the county health department with ant bites that looked like measles.†   (source)
  • Ed promptly went off to fight in France in World War I. Just as promptly, he was laid low with both the measles and the mumps.†   (source)
  • No. Have you had any recent viral infection, including poliomyelitis, hepatitis, mononucleosis, mumps, measles, varicella, or herpes?†   (source)
  • Any child running a fever, having a sprained limb, or showing signs of any disease like chicken pox or measles was automatically disqualified.†   (source)
  • But I remember time—was quite small—when measles got loose and thousands died.†   (source)
  • where there's a pipe at the bottom draining it out faster than you pour it, and each bucket you bring breaks that pipe an inch wider, and the harder you work the more is demanded of you, and you stand slinging buckets forty hours a week, then forty-eight, then fifty-six-for your neighbor's supper-for his wife's operation-for his child's measles-for his mother's wheel chair —for his uncle's shirt-for his nephew's schooling-for the baby next door-for the baby to be born-for anyone anywhere around you it's theirs to receive, from diapers to dentures-and yours to work, from sunup to sundown, month after month, year after year, with nothing to show for it but your sweat, with nothing in sigh†   (source)
  • Red acne covered his face like the measles.†   (source)
  • Have you had measles?†   (source)
  • Measles.†   (source)
  • It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other recognizable disease just to make it simple for me and also for them.†   (source)
  • She had the measles.†   (source)
  • One case that the surgeon says is measles.†   (source)
  • He had always hated the discipline, as every normal animal does, but it was just and true and inevitable as measles, not to be denied or cursed, only to be hated.†   (source)
  • When one of us caught measles or whooping cough and we were isolated in bed upstairs, we wrote notes to each other perhaps on the hour.†   (source)
  • If I hadn't left him with my mother to join you on the road, because you wrote telling me you missed me and were so lonely, Jamie would never have been allowed, when he still had measles, to go in the baby's room.†   (source)
  • She was delirious with the fever that comes before red measles, but she was fully conscious all the week I was gone and the week after we were home when she could not come near the new baby or me.†   (source)
  • He's got money-measles.†   (source)
  • We entertain ourselves by trying to figure out which disease they've got, and we've reached the conclusion that they suffer from cancer, smallpox and measles.   (source)
    measles = contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots
  • Mother began to be afraid that he might be sickening for measles, when suddenly he sat up in bed and said: 'I hate gruel — I hate barley water — I hate bread and milk.'   (source)
    measles = a highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash
  • Which is quite true, if you come to think of it, and a useful thing to remember in seasons of trouble — such as measles, arithmetic, impositions, and those times when you are in disgrace, and feel as though no one would ever love you again, and you could never — never again — love anybody.   (source)
  • Venial sins are lighter, like a rash instead of measles.†   (source)
  • 'The boy had had a mild case of the measles when he was twelve, reported his mother.†   (source)
  • How is it that he contracted measles the same year I began consciously to hate him?†   (source)
  • Like measles, it triggers a rash all over the body.†   (source)
  • I missed my grandmother when I had the measles.†   (source)
  • I don't want her exposed to gossip"—as if gossip were measles and I could catch it.†   (source)
  • Measles—like you have when you're at school.†   (source)
  • The mention of measles had aroused anxiety in her again.†   (source)
  • What's this I hear about your ship all getting measles?†   (source)
  • We had a case of measles on board, so I'm in a kind of quarantine.†   (source)
  • I don't know that we found out very much, and one of the ship's company developed measles.†   (source)
  • We'll be clear of measles by the tenth of March whatever happens.†   (source)
  • The fate of human life upon the world at sake, and we're stuck with the measles!†   (source)
  • Oh dear...Can anyone get measles when she's as young as Jennifer?†   (source)
  • He shook his head, knowing her concern about the measles.†   (source)
  • She rang the doctor who told her that a baby could get measles and that she must be very careful.†   (source)
  • The only thing might hold us up would be the measles.†   (source)
  • I recognize the measles spots.†   (source)
  • Without those tissues, we would have no tests for diseases like hepatitis and HIV; no vaccines for rabies, smallpox, measles; none of the promising new drugs for leukemia, breast cancer, colon cancer.†   (source)
  • " 'Doctors were at first baffled by the disease, which they report is extremely rare and generally attacks children between the ages of ten and twenty, months to years after they have contracted the measles virus,' " read my father.†   (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)
  • "The croup following measles, on top of malnutrition, on top of rickets," he said to me under his breath.†   (source)
  • Not surprisingly, they tended to shrug when patients died from ailments like measles or tetanus or tb.†   (source)
  • NOW THAT I WAS about to turn thirteen, I was aware that for Matron, Bachelli, and Ghosh, and for Missing Hospital, the rainy season meant the croup, diphtheria, and measles season.†   (source)
  • The number of patients fell by half during those years, yet the clinic recorded an annual doubling of injuries from assaults—including four rapes committed by soldiers and attachés—a large increase in typhoid, and twenty-two times more cases of measles than the average before the coup.†   (source)
  • She could see herself a child, rocking a baby in a cradle, rock, rock, rock; could see herself sick with the measles, walking the length of Cook's trap line, in winter, shivering, eyes watering.†   (source)
  • These are the used sections—broken bones, cuts, bruises, mumps, measles, backache, scarlet fever, diphtheria, rheumatism, female complaints, hernia, and of course everything to do with pregnancy and the birth of children.†   (source)
  • Stink like measles.†   (source)
  • Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catchis measles!†   (source)
  • The original idea was that we'd get away about the middle of next month, but now we've got this bloody measles in the ship.†   (source)
  • In Scorpion there were no more cases of measles, and the work upon the submarine progressed quickly in the hands of dockyard fitters who had little else to do.†   (source)
  • Peter said it was just measles.†   (source)
  • At breakfast Mary asked her guest if he wanted to go to church, thinking that the more she got him out of the house the less likely he was to give Jennifer measles.†   (source)
  • Not only was it cheaper than a party and more pleasant in the heat of summer, but in Mary's somewhat muddled view the more the men were kept out of the house the less likely they were to give the baby measles.†   (source)
  • Measles, eh?†   (source)
  • They've all got measles.†   (source)
  • Then the sickness came, pneumonia, and measles that went to the eyes and to the mastoids.†   (source)
  • Cause I— cause my brudder's god measles.†   (source)
  • Smallpox and measles had taken heavy toll here time and again.†   (source)
  • It's going hungry, and getting the measles and pneumonia from sleeping in the wet.†   (source)
  • The boy Roger had arrived home with measles; they were all in quarantine.†   (source)
  • He accepted it, he said, "like the measles."†   (source)
  • All because Charles Hamilton had had the measles.†   (source)
  • All the conventional things, I suppose, everybody goes through them, like measles.†   (source)
  • Among the Indians, measles, scarlatina and whooping-cough were as deadly as typhus or cholera.†   (source)
  • And if it ain't measles and pneumonia, it's your bowels.†   (source)
  • You'll cook his Cream of Wheat, launder his handkerchiefs and bear his children, though of course the children will all have measles at one time or another, which is a nuisance.†   (source)
  • They should have called it the M.U.M.P.S. or the M.E.A.S.L.E.S. But no. The Measles is much more dangerous.†   (source)
  • There were two children down with the measles, his wife was ailing, and he had a whitlow on his thumb.†   (source)
  • We have between us scores of children of both sexes, whom we are educating, going to see at school with the measles, and bringing up to inherit our houses.†   (source)
  • Where once the horrible lepers—they called them Measles—had been accustomed to ramble through the woods in white cowls, ringing their doleful clappers if they wanted to give warning, or just pouncing on you without ringing them if they did not, now there were proper hospitals, governed by religious orders of knighthood, to look after those who had come back sick with leprosy from the Crusades.†   (source)
  • Behind that doorway where the voices of children filtered through, Mrs. Glantz's brood had the measles.†   (source)
  • I could not help blessing the measles.†   (source)
  • He had even added lamely that the only thing Jews wore around their necks were camphor balls against measles, merely to hear the intoxicating sound of Leo's derisive laugh.†   (source)
  • She would cook his breakfast, even though they had a maid; she would prepare his favorite dish—French pancakes, the kind he had liked so much when he was nine years old and sick with the measles.†   (source)
  • The Padre, he said, had stopped at his village in the Pecos mountains where black measles had broken out, to give the sacrament to the dying, and had fallen ill of the sickness.†   (source)
  • He had died ignominiously and swiftly of pneumonia, following measles, without ever having gotten any closer to the Yankees than the camp in South Carolina.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Bonnell's children have the measles," said Mrs. Merriwether abruptly, showing plainly that she held Mrs. Bonnell personally responsible for permitting such a thing to happen.†   (source)
  • Do not you remember what Mr. Perry said, so many years ago, when I had the measles?†   (source)
  • He had the measles and the hooping-cough.†   (source)
  • I hope whenever poor Isabella's little ones have the measles, she will send for Perry.†   (source)
  • It seems but yesterday that I had the honour of attending you in the measles.†   (source)
  • He had had all the diseases that babies are heir to, in quick succession, scarlet fever, mumps, and whooping cough in the first year, and now he was down with the measles.†   (source)
  • I have also in my possession, you will be pleased to hear, certificates of Miss Cardew's birth, baptism, whooping cough, registration, vaccination, confirmation, and the measles; both the German and the English variety.†   (source)
  • Once or twice he made a mistake in diagnosis: (he had never seen a case of measles before, and when he was confronted with the rash took it for an obscure disease of the skin;) and once or twice his ideas of treatment differed from Doctor South's.†   (source)
  • Then came the measles.†   (source)
  • No whooping-cough did rack his frame, Nor measles drear with spots; Not these impaired the sacred name Of Stephen Dowling Bots.†   (source)
  • Idyllic follies never last, my little Chauvelin ...They come upon us like the measles ...and are as easily cured.†   (source)
  • He hunted up Jim Hollis, who called his attention to the precious blessing of his late measles as a warning.†   (source)
  • Well, measles, and whooping-cough, and erysiplas, and consumption, and yaller janders, and brain-fever, and I don't know what all.†   (source)
  • There was no one to attend him but Kotrina; there was no doctor to help him, because they were too poor, and children did not die of the measles—at least not often.†   (source)
  • What's to make me sure as the house won't be put o' board wage afore we're many months older, and then I may have to lie awake o' nights wi' twenty gallons o' milk on my mind—and Dingall 'ull take no more butter, let alone paying for it; and we must fat pigs till we're obliged to beg the butcher on our knees to buy 'em, and lose half of 'em wi' the measles.†   (source)
  • Pretending to read a smeary newspaper long out of date, which had nothing half so legible in its local news, as the foreign matter of coffee, pickles, fish sauces, gravy, melted butter, and wine with which it was sprinkled all over, as if it had taken the measles in a highly irregular form, I sat at my table while he stood before the fire.†   (source)
  • Down in Bleeding Heart Yard there was scarcely an inhabitant of note to whom Mr Pancks had not imparted his demonstration, and, as figures are catching, a kind of cyphering measles broke out in that locality, under the influence of which the whole Yard was light-headed.†   (source)
  • She was a woman in the prime of life; of a severe countenance; and subject (particularly in the arms) to a sort of perpetual measles or fiery rash.†   (source)
  • Percy Northumberland Driscoll, brother to the judge, and younger than he by five years, was a married man, and had had children around his hearthstone; but they were attacked in detail by measles, croup, and scarlet fever, and this had given the doctor a chance with his effective antediluvian methods; so the cradles were empty.†   (source)
  • Just the same as though you prayed that a physician might only be called upon to prescribe for headaches, measles, and the stings of wasps, or any other slight affection of the epidermis.†   (source)
  • I sympathised a while; but when the children fell ill of the measles, and I had to tend them, and take on me the cares of a woman at once, I changed my idea.†   (source)
  • The oldest inhabitants recollected no period at which measles had been so prevalent, or so fatal to infant existence; and many were the mournful processions which little Oliver headed, in a hat-band reaching down to his knees, to the indescribable admiration and emotion of all the mothers in the town.†   (source)
  • "You never made a greater mistake, Doctor," returned the youth, gaping like an indolent lion; "I haven't a symptom, as you call it, about any part of me; and as to father and the children, I reckon the small-pox and the measles have been thoroughly through the breed these many months ago."†   (source)
  • 'Indeed,' said Mrs Nickleby, 'I don't think she ever was better, since she had the hooping-cough, scarlet-fever, and measles, all at the same time, and that's the fact.'†   (source)
  • He had not neglected Mrs. Larcher's when they had the measles, nor indeed would Mrs. Vincy have wished that he should.†   (source)
  • She had the measles a short time before they carried her to jail, and the disease had left her eyes affected.†   (source)
  • Everywhere he must sit a little and talk about the child, and words of interest were always ready for him: "Ah, Master Marner, you'll be lucky if she takes the measles soon and easy!"†   (source)
  • "I do think it was the most fortunate thing in the world that those children should have the measles just now," said Meg, one April day, as she stood packing the 'go abroady' trunk in her room, surrounded by her sisters.†   (source)
  • 'Measles, rheumatics, hooping-cough, fevers, agers, and lumbagers,' said Mr Squeers, 'is all philosophy together; that's what it is.†   (source)
  • He and Pestler, his chief, sat up two whole nights by the boy in that momentous and awful week when Georgy had the measles; and when you would have thought, from the mother's terror, that there had never been measles in the world before.†   (source)
  • 'What do you mean by this?' said Sikes; backing the inquiry with a very common imprecation concerning the most beautiful of human features: which, if it were heard above, only once out of every fifty thousand times that it is uttered below, would render blindness as common a disorder as measles: 'what do you mean by it?†   (source)
  • I have stated that when Dr. Flint put Ellen in jail, at two years old, she had an inflammation of the eyes, occasioned by measles.†   (source)
  • You were very bad with the measles; that is, you would have been very bad, but for Perry's great attention.†   (source)
  • Yes; I've nursed five children and buried three; and the one I loved the best of all, and tended through croup, and teething, and measles, and hooping-cough, and brought up with foreign masters, regardless of expense, and with accomplishments at Minerva House—which I never had when I was a girl—when I was too glad to honour my father and mother, that I might live long in the land, and to be useful, and not to mope all day in my room and act the fine lady—says I'm a murderess.†   (source)
  • Her tale does not deal in wonders, as the gentle reader has already no doubt perceived; and if a journal had been kept of her proceedings during the seven years after the birth of her son, there would be found few incidents more remarkable in it than that of the measles, recorded in the foregoing page.†   (source)
  • He said, from the first, it was a very good sort—which was our great comfort; but the measles are a dreadful complaint.†   (source)
  • Why, only last term, just before I was rusticated, that is, I mean just before I had the measles, ha, ha—there was me and Ringwood of Christchurch, Bob Ringwood, Lord Cinqbars' son, having our beer at the Bell at Blenheim, when the Banbury bargeman offered to fight either of us for a bowl of punch.†   (source)
  • But she never did for a year afterwards, and not, indeed, until Sir Pitt's only boy, always sickly, died of hooping-cough and measles—then Rawdon's mamma wrote the most affectionate composition to her darling son, who was made heir of Queen's Crawley by this accident, and drawn more closely than ever to the kind lady, whose tender heart had already adopted him.†   (source)
  • Childrenwere carried off by diphtheria, scarlet fever, and measles.†   (source)
  • In the same way an American does not say "I had measles," but "I had /the/ measles."†   (source)
  • "I have /gotten/ what I came for" is correct, and so is "I have /got/ the measles."†   (source)
  • Only measles.†   (source)
  • Thus the two sentences change to "I /gotten/ what I come for" and "I /got/ the measles," the latter being understood, not as past, but as present.†   (source)
  • In "I have /got/ the measles" /got/ is historically a sort of auxiliary of /have/, and in colloquial American, as we have seen in the examples just given, the auxiliary has obliterated the verb.†   (source)
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