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  • They didn't want me catching pneumonia now that I was company property.†   (source)
  • He was a puny boy, and in his first years in Torrance, his lungs were still compromised enough from the pneumonia that in picnic footraces, every girl in town could dust him.†   (source)
  • Old Mr. Westing probably died of a heart attack—or pneumonia—it was drafty in there.†   (source)
  • Don't want you catching pneumonia.†   (source)
  • You'll die of pneumonia 'fore the cops ever get you.†   (source)
  • With pneumonia, coughing is good and bad.†   (source)
  • But he had heard it only once, while on a working visit to the Mysore Zoo, in their animal hospital, from a young male being treated for pneumonia.†   (source)
  • The doctor said it's pneumonia.†   (source)
  • Months after Lee was arrested and charged with capital murder, six additional pathologists examined the body and unanimously concluded that neonatal pneumonia had killed the child—it was a classic stillbirth with very common features.†   (source)
  • And then Will got pneumonia.†   (source)
  • After an autopsy, the coroner was more specific: Williams had died of pneumonia.†   (source)
  • Pneumonia†   (source)
  • Just pour some pneumonia in that garbage.†   (source)
  • "At my age," she told me, "it's one fall, one broken hip, and then a long, slow death—from pneumonia."†   (source)
  • The nuns called again, threatening that pneumonia might make an insufferably headstrong child a lot less curious about nature.†   (source)
  • This can so weaken the animal that it can develop a long list of other diseases like diarrhea, ulcers, liver disease, pneumonia, and feedlot polio.†   (source)
  • Less than one month later his father died of pneumonia and was buried next to his wife in the local cemetery.†   (source)
  • Doc Halliday had said he'd had pneumonia and possibly a heart seizure too.†   (source)
  • Afterward Andrew had pneumonia for two weeks.†   (source)
  • Churchill has had pneumonia, but is gradually getting better.†   (source)
  • You have to explain some hard stuff, like why people die, or why God invented pneumonia and all that.†   (source)
  • My ma's mama died of pneumonia, and we don't ever get the chance to forget it.†   (source)
  • A serious case of the flu, pneumonia, a broken arm, even appendicitis.†   (source)
  • I hope he catches pneumonia, thought Meggie ....though he needn't necessarily die of it.†   (source)
  • Even when she was five and had pneumonia, I don't think she looked this bad.†   (source)
  • I feared hunger, pneumonia, guards with hobnail boots, older boys with bottleglass knives.†   (source)
  • Tuberculosis and double pneumonia were raging in those days, and Mameh had a great fear one of her kids would catch that, because in Europe one of her brothers died in a flu epidemic.†   (source)
  • But at the same time, Joyce knowingly plays off our expectations of rain as an agent of new life and restoration because he also knows that we have another, less literary set of associations for rain: the source of chills, colds, pneumonia, death.†   (source)
  • But his sojourn in what he called 'the land of bears, ice, and rocks' brought on an attack of pneumonia and he died in the winter of 1650.†   (source)
  • Every now and then when I remembered that Betsie's cold had settled in her chest and threatened, as hers always did, to turn into pneumonia, I would reproach myself for being anything but distressed at the present arrangement.†   (source)
  • This cousin told Saeed that Saeed's father had passed away from pneumonia, a lingering infection he had fought for months, initially just a cold but then much worse, and in the absence of antibiotics he had succumbed, but he had not been alone, his siblings were with him, and he had been buried next to his wife, as he had wished.†   (source)
  • Randy Clendening cried tears of relief; he'd made it through with walking pneumonia.†   (source)
  • The pneumonia in my lungs cleared up.†   (source)
  • , and maybe three cases of pneumonia.†   (source)
  • Several hours later she called again: A doctor had come and diagnosed pneumonia.†   (source)
  • The sputum sample showed pneumonia.†   (source)
  • The boys tried to look after one another, though if one got sick or maimed—catching pneumonia or falling off a streetcar or under the wheels of a truck—there wasn't much any of them could do.†   (source)
  • In January 2006, my grandmother got pneumonia, and we moved in with her to take care of her.†   (source)
  • Goudsmit's work focuses on what is known as Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, or PCP.†   (source)
  • He left among coughs so ratchety you'd think he was dying of double pneumonia.†   (source)
  • The doctor told my mother I had had pneumonia and that I was to get as much rest as possible.†   (source)
  • To anyone who listened, Dr. Cuevas offered the most logical explanation of her death, which was due, he said, to galloping pneumonia.†   (source)
  • He was soaked to the skin and returned home terrified that he would catch pneumonia after so many years of meticulous care and excessive precautions.†   (source)
  • I had pneumonia, remember, but I was a little better now, and madly caught up in the book, and one thing you know when you're ten is that, no matter what, there's gonna be a happy ending.†   (source)
  • Caroline herself could feel a dull scratching deep in her throat as she called the next patient, an elderly gentleman whose cold would worsen in the next weeks, turning into the pneumonia that would finally kill him.†   (source)
  • It is also related to certain pneumonia viruses: to the parainfluenza virus, which causes colds in children, and to the respiratory syncytial virus, which can cause fatal pneumonia in a person who has AIDS.†   (source)
  • By the time I got to Mrs. Thatcher I was feeling poorly, and I was later diagnosed as having a mild case of pneumonia.†   (source)
  • "Once you're through your nonelective surgeries, provided there aren't any complications—no infections from the splenectomy, no pneumonia, no problems with your lungs—we'll get you out of the hospital and into rehab," the social worker said.†   (source)
  • Pneumonia.†   (source)
  • But you've developed pneumonia and there is fluid collecting around your right lung.†   (source)
  • Because I caught pneumonia.†   (source)
  • He died there of pneumonia.†   (source)
  • President William Henry Harrison died here in his bed from pneumonia back in 1841.†   (source)
  • Lady, look, I'll give you the dollar, but I'm not gonna catch pneumonia out here.†   (source)
  • Then the next winter both boys had died of pneumonia within a month of one another.†   (source)
  • He might not get pneumonia or postnasal drip, but he was freaking tired of winter.†   (source)
  • Compare the 281 victims of lynchings in the 1920s to the number of black infants who were dying at that time as a result of malnutrition, pneumonia, diarrhea, and the like.†   (source)
  • I'd gone along with Dad's pneumonia story until school ended, then told them all that I was going to Europe over the summer, then boarding school in the fall.†   (source)
  • He made his voice sound like the wind, if the wind had bronchial pneumonia.†   (source)
  • I learned that whiskey will cure anything from a toothache to double pneumonia, if you drink enough.†   (source)
  • I think it's probably pneumonia.†   (source)
  • He's afraid you're going to die of pneumonia.†   (source)
  • His oxygen ran out and he suffered severe frostbite, pneumonia, pleurisy, and a cluster of potentially fatal clots in his lungs.†   (source)
  • Likely, it was pneumonia, made more virulent by her lack of movement on the couch.†   (source)
  • The doctors say I won't die from AIDS—I'll die from pneumonia or TB or a bacterial infection in the brain; but if you ask me, that's just semantics.†   (source)
  • When I die, Mom can just say pneumonia did it, or something.†   (source)
  • I can't really afford to pay for a room, and I wouldn't even bother you except I've got a child out in that car that's wet and cold and looking to catch pneumonia if I don't get it to bed someplace warm.†   (source)
  • Before he'd left on Christmas Day, Dart had told Marijke there was a possibility that Oma would develop pneumonia.†   (source)
  • I caint stop laughing over the time when I was down with a touch of pneumonia and they put one of them so-called engineers to pooling around down here.†   (source)
  • Burton began, like so many others in his day, with Diplococcus pneurnoniae, the agent causing pneumonia.†   (source)
  • I don't get pneumonia, no dark spots on my x-rays.†   (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)
  • Ari struggled to get up, wheezing like a large animal with pneumonia, trying to push me off.†   (source)
  • He could have a cold so bad it sounded like pneumonia rattling around in there but he wouldn't stay home.†   (source)
  • What I had was a sore throat that missed pneumonia only through drugs, traveler's trots, skin disease on hands and spreading to feet—just like my other trips to that disease-ridden hole, Terra.†   (source)
  • Jose Fax had passed away two years earlier and Cesar's brother, Joseph, had told him that their mother, F elicit as was having a relapse of pneumonia.†   (source)
  • At the beginning of the year, I babysat the kindergarten class for Mrs. Ndori, who was out with pneumonia.†   (source)
  • A week isn't that long, and Johnson was out for nearly a month with pneumonia—' 'I've already made arrangements with your approval, of course.†   (source)
  • Webster spoke to President John Tyler, who had been sworn in when President Harrison died of pneumonia, just within a month of his inauguration.†   (source)
  • The woman died sometime before my father did, of complications from pneumonia.†   (source)
  • You want me to get pneumonia?†   (source)
  • I hope to die of pneumonia.†   (source)
  • In December of that year he goes down with pneumonia, and dies of it.†   (source)
  • You can't claim to be a very wise owl if you get pneumonia.†   (source)
  • And my mother died of pneumonia.†   (source)
  • Pneumonia.†   (source)
  • John Luke was hospitalized with RSV (respiratory syncytial virus, which causes respiratory tract infections) when he was three months old and it seemed to damage his lungs, so we spent a lot of time at the doctor's office with wheezing, bronchitis, and pneumonia, but other than that, he was an easy, fun kid to raise.†   (source)
  • You'll catch pneumonia.†   (source)
  • I don't know why I didn't get pneumonia.†   (source)
  • No. It was galloping pneumonia.†   (source)
  • The only way I would have gotten that answer right would have been to imagine an associative situation, for example, my being disobedient and staying out past sunset, catching a chill at night, which turns into feverish pneumonia as punishment, which indeed did happen to me.†   (source)
  • ESTRAGON: Come come, take a seat I beseech you, you'll get pneumonia.†   (source)
  • First thing they'd do is take off my red long-johns and I'd die of pneumonia.†   (source)
  • They married and made their own lives—except for John, who died of pneumonia after enlisting in the Army in 1918—in teaching, banking, civic or business affairs below.†   (source)
  • They died of exposure and pneumonia, very fast.†   (source)
  • Poor Editha came down with pneumonia one time—three years ago February, wasn't it Editha?†   (source)
  • Many of them were dying of pneumonia, and several others had been taken down with cholera from drinking the poisoned water.†   (source)
  • He then takes from his pocket a pair of spectacles and from the basket a book) COMMON MAN (Reading) "Whether we follow tradition in ascribing Wolsey's death to a broken heart, or accept Professor Larcomb's less feeling diagnosis of pulmonary pneumonia, its effective cause was the King's displeasure.†   (source)
  • Throughout November, 1911, Anna Ivanovna stayed in bed with pneumonia.†   (source)
  • Anna, do you remember anything about Green Lawn Park, a market, and Tom having pneumonia?†   (source)
  • Suleiman had pneumonia that time, which the doctor said he got from aspirating his own saliva.†   (source)
  • "Asked you to wake me without giving me pneumonia," says Haymitch, passing over his knife.†   (source)
  • She got a permanent and she smell like pneumonia.†   (source)
  • "We're going to have to jump on that pneumonia, hard," Jameson said.†   (source)
  • I'm not trying to alarm you, but I want you to understand that pneumonia is dangerous.†   (source)
  • Topping the list was pneumonia, which was suspected with every minor cough.†   (source)
  • There were commiserations from the others, and many, many stories about pneumonia.†   (source)
  • He's got pneumonia, and I believe he had a seizure of the heart several days ago.†   (source)
  • CHF and pneumonia on X-ray, sometimes it's hard to tell.†   (source)
  • Sold bridal shop last year after Rosalie died of pneumonia, age 19.†   (source)
  • Did an autopsy on him, and it looked like pneumonia.†   (source)
  • You went out in the rain, three days later you had pneumonia; ergo, rain and chills cause pneumonia.†   (source)
  • "I had pneumonia when I was just a tiny baby," Denna said with no particular inflection.†   (source)
  • After Gar's funeral, when the pneumonia was at its peak, that tiny seed appeared again in her sleep.†   (source)
  • CARDINAL's supposed to be in the hospital with pneumonia.†   (source)
  • Now, Page, come inside before you catch pneumonia.†   (source)
  • He hasn't picked up what you have, Trudy, which is pneumonia.†   (source)
  • For weeks after the pneumonia she forced herself out to the kennel, pretending to be recovering.†   (source)
  • He died of pneumonia on June 28, 1890, at the age of sixty.†   (source)
  • He didn't think he heard sounds of pneumonia.†   (source)
  • She had caught pneumonia, and wasn't expected to live.†   (source)
  • Miss Ab was dead, she told me, of the pneumonia.†   (source)
  • I didn't even feel like I was getting pneumonia or anything any more.†   (source)
  • He could do without the pneumonia, for thet matter.†   (source)
  • And skinny-dipping now will get me arrested or give me pneumonia or both.†   (source)
  • Last month she got a chest cold that turned into a pneumonia, and before you know it she was dead.†   (source)
  • William Crook died in 1915 from pneumonia, at the age of seventy-seven.†   (source)
  • Surprised he didn't catch pneumonia, considering how cold it was.†   (source)
  • Apparently he thinks I've got pneumonia, but I don't think so.†   (source)
  • He didn't think that the animal was suffering from pneumonia or a cold.†   (source)
  • According to the gazette, they all passed of pneumonia, cancer, and TB.†   (source)
  • And throw that silly ice bag away before you die of pneumonia.†   (source)
  • So I said, 'What do you want to do, get pneumonia?'†   (source)
  • Come in, mi cielo, you'll die of pneumonia!†   (source)
  • I started thinking how old Phoebe would feel if I got pneumonia and died.†   (source)
  • He knows it's time for me to die of pneumonia, that's what he knows.†   (source)
  • I guess I thought it'd take my mind off getting pneumonia and dying.†   (source)
  • Say I'll be back in the squadron as soon as winter comes and Chief Halfoat dies of pneumonia.†   (source)
  • Come on — help me get them out of here before they all die of pneumonia.†   (source)
  • 'I just want to find out if Chief White Halfoat died of pneumonia yet,' the man shouted back.†   (source)
  • She has all the symptoms of lobar pneumonia.†   (source)
  • When I recovered from my pneumonia it came time for me to learn to walk again.†   (source)
  • I'll be burying you next from pneumonia.†   (source)
  • Might have saved you from pneumonia too.†   (source)
  • Olive used her scattergun method of treating pleural pneumonia, and it worked.†   (source)
  • When I, her only son, was sixteen I contracted pleural pneumonia, in that day a killing disease.†   (source)
  • She'll catch pneumonia!†   (source)
  • In March 2005, my dad had a second heart attack, which led to pneumonia and another stint in the ICU.†   (source)
  • Shinebone's gloomy assessment had been that Geoffrey would almost certainly take pneumonia after lying in that ditch all night in the chilly rain, but three days had passed and there had beenno onset of fever and coughing.†   (source)
  • He reveled in the attention and adored the engraved silver "loving cup" that was filled with wine and held to the lips of every man at the table—despite the prevalence in the city outside of typhoid, diphtheria, tuberculosis, and pneumonia.†   (source)
  • If pneumonia felt this good I'd stand out in the snow in the winter with bare feet and no coat on, or march into the hospital and kiss pneumonia patients.†   (source)
  • Lydia coughed and nodded, nodded and coughed, but neither woman would share her elderly wisdom with me ...concerning why a broken hip produced pneumonia; not to mention, "a long, slow death."†   (source)
  • His body had been weakened, the ocean had left him vulnerable, pneumonia took hold of him, and in time, he died.†   (source)
  • He said this when we were in the throes of sickness on the Agnes Pauline, and again in the bitter first winter in New York, when four of us, including Mam, came down with pneumonia.†   (source)
  • It's like being home again, when they bring in the hopelessly mangled person from the mine explosion, or the woman in her third day of labor, or the famished child struggling against pneumonia and my mother and Prim, they wear that same look on their faces.†   (source)
  • Softly, he began to talk of his life with Pete, tracing the paths they had taken since pneumonia had brought them to California in 1919.†   (source)
  • Grandma caught a chill the night we had the trouble in the house in Roden Lane and the chill turned into pneumonia.†   (source)
  • I finally ended up in the ICU with pneumonia, and my mom knelt by the side of my bed and said, "Are you ready, sweetie?" and I told her I was ready, and my dad just kept telling me he loved me in this voice that was not breaking so much as already broken, and I kept telling him that I loved him, too, and everyone was holding hands, and I couldn't catch my breath, and my lungs were actin†   (source)
  • My mother, she died of pneumonia.†   (source)
  • "Had a Woolly monkey down the end that died from pneumonia too," the attendant muttered, almost to himself.†   (source)
  • He told me about Will's previous bouts of pneumonia, the first of which had nearly killed him, and from which it had taken him weeks to recover.†   (source)
  • The doctor comes with Aunt Aggie in his motor car and he has to rush my mother to the hospital with her pneumonia.†   (source)
  • THE WHITE-HAIRED doctor who comes to examine me puts a cold metal stethoscope to my chest, listens thoughtfully for a few moments, and announces that I have pneumonia.†   (source)
  • These were the cremated remains of sixty Australian POWs—one in every five prisoners—who had died in this camp in 1943 and 1944, succumbing to pneumonia, beriberi, malnutrition, colitis, or a combination of these.†   (source)
  • That same winter, he said, his mother caught pneumonia and almost died, would have died, if not for a camp doctor who worked out of a station wagon made into a mobile clinic.†   (source)
  • Dutchy tells me he was born in New York to German parents, that his mother died of pneumonia and his father sent him out on the streets to earn money as a bootblack, beating him with a belt if he didn't bring enough in.†   (source)
  • Your shoes are drenched and you'll catch your death and your father will surely get the pneumonia without a shoe to his foot.†   (source)
  • Of pneumonia?†   (source)
  • If the pneumonia really takes hold...†   (source)
  • Pneumonia.†   (source)
  • In 1919, when two-year-old Louie was down with pneumonia, he climbed out his bedroom window, descended one story, and went on a naked tear down the street with a policeman chasing him and a crowd watching in amazement.†   (source)
  • She thinks of the time she had to be hospitalized with pneumonia, when she was eight, Maman refusing to go home, insisting on sleeping in the chair next to her bed, and she feels a new, unexpected, belated kinship with her mother.†   (source)
  • I stand out in the open in the freezing weather and hope I'll catch pneumonia or the galloping consumption so that I'll go to the hospital with the nice clean sheets and the meals in the bed and books brought by the girl in the blue dress.†   (source)
  • No more pneumonia.†   (source)
  • And last, one of the voice mails is from his chief, Joan Schaeffer, who tells him that a patient he had diagnosed with pneumonia just before his trip to Kabul turned out to have congestive heart failure instead.†   (source)
  • She says if she hears a word out of us during the night she'll warm our arses and we're to be up early in the morning because it's Ash Wednesday and it wouldn't do us any harm to go to Mass and pray for our poor mother and her pneumonia.†   (source)
  • Will has pneumonia.†   (source)
  • The act familiar from those nights when his mother was housebound with pneumonia and he'd slept on the makeshift bed of bales.†   (source)
  • Pneumonia, says Malachy.†   (source)
  • You'll catch pneumonia.†   (source)
  • Though he was down with pneumonia, Martinez somehow managed both to live through the afternoon and to win the race before wheezing his way back to the hospital.†   (source)
  • I could walk now, but healing Gunilla's burns had left me feeling like I'd just had a bad case of pneumonia.†   (source)
  • At the end of the fifth test, the subject was sent home to New York with three or four aspirins in an engraved envelope for his sniffles, which turned out to be bronchial pneumonia.†   (source)
  • You don't want to catch pneumonia.†   (source)
  • Pneumonia weather.†   (source)
  • AIDS-related pneumonia.†   (source)
  • But if something, such as HIV, wipes out our immune system, it becomes so uncontrollable that it can cause a deadly form of pneumonia.†   (source)
  • Heart failure, pneumonia, bizarre neurological illness, strange fevers, rashes, unexplained symptoms—those were his métier.†   (source)
  • My mother was telling of Randolph Anders's long work hours as a physician even while he was ill with pneumonia.†   (source)
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