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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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