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a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars

Both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln survived their smallpox infections.

She survived a smallpox plague that took her daughter, who had just gotten engaged.
Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King
I've seen them all born alive, and not one lost to smallpox or tuberculosis.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
If there's a metaphor connected with smallpox, I don't want to know about it.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
The guy is running to Fugazi, the very tail end of "Smallpox Champion."
Gayle Forman -- Where She Went
A notice came through her second screen about a Circle campaign to eradicate smallpox in West Africa.
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
India and Japan felt that the smallpox epidemic on the West Coast of the United States, Canada, and in Mexico should receive equal priority.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars
He was a young man, not a native of the town, with dark, curly hair and a long, pale face, marked with smallpox.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
It was a disease, rhetorical smallpox, and every visitor exhibited it in some degree.
Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
CHAPTER XXIX THE SMALLPOX HUT When we arrived at that hut at mid-afternoon, we saw no signs of life about it.
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The mosquitoes left welts on her ankles, arms, and neck, so she probably looked like a smallpox victim.
Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena
And even if it's got smallpox, black death, and ten thousand hangnails, there ain't no doctor knows how to cure it.
Orson Scott Card -- Red Prophet
He was also re-vaccinated (from which we may assume that there had been another epidemic of smallpox at Lucknow) about the same time.
Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
According to the Republic's databases," she goes on, "Daniel Altan Wing died five years ago from smallpox, in one of our labor camps."
Marie Lu -- Legend
A so' th'oat is as ketchin' as smallpox, and I know it so to be, though they is them that say it ain't.
Grace MacGowan Cooke -- The Power and the Glory
Mary Dusak was broad and brown of countenance, slightly marked by smallpox, but handsome for all that.
Willa Cather -- My Antonia
The rats that brought the bubonic plague to Europe, the conquistadors who brought smallpox to the Native Americans.
Marissa Meyer -- Cinder
Spread through that population even faster than smallpox.
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
I was saying to the old woman just the other day, when she had an ear-ache, 'Ain't got smallpox, have yuh, Bess!'
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith

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