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rickets
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  • Their women worked themselves to death, their mules succumbed to worms and their children were crippled by rickets and perished from fever, but every Sunday morning The Word leaked out of little white-wood sanctuaries where preachers thrust ragged Bibles at the rafters and promised them that while sickness and poverty and Lucifer might take their families, the soul of man never dies.†  (source)
  • The children have rickets.†  (source)
  • Rickets and shingles were back, and perhaps polio was coming back, too.†  (source)
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  • He needed vitamin D for the boy or he was going to get rickets.†  (source)
  • She had rather, she told me vehemently, spend her life with a grasshopper who had rickets, than spend one more night in bed with me.†  (source)
  • I certainly don't want to contract rickets or typhoid fever or whatever it is you catch from drinking contaminated water.†  (source)
  • These are the stigmata of rickets.†  (source)
  • How came he here from the clean Dutch thrift of his youth into this vast lost earth of rickets?†  (source)
  • At any rate he was wretchedly sick and undersized; he had the rickets, and though he was over three years old, he was no bigger than an ordinary child of one.†  (source)
  • I, for a time, at least, have worked thy cure; Thy fancy's rickets plague thee not at all: Had I not been, so hadst thou, sure, Walked thyself off this earthly ball Why here to caverns, rocky hollows slinking, Sit'st thou, as 'twere an owl a-blinking?†  (source)
  • For how was it possible to believe that those large brown protuberant eyes in Silas Marner's pale face really saw nothing very distinctly that was not close to them, and not rather that their dreadful stare could dart cramp, or rickets, or a wry mouth at any boy who happened to be in the rear?†  (source)
  • She says she knows all about teeth and bones and rickets but beggars can't be choosers.†  (source)
  • It was sponsored by a Norwegian reporter, Mrs. Jorumn Rickets, who had set it up with Ernie, Minnijean, and me, and the group spotlighted as staunch troublemakers: Sammy Dean Parker, Kaye Bacon, and their crowd.†  (source)
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