Sample Sentences forscurvy (auto-selected)
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So the son sailed southward with his scurvy crew.† (source)
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When I was a kid in high school I cut out vitamin C, I got scurvy.† (source)
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Evidence unearthed by the forty-odd expeditions sent to search for them eventually established that all had perished, the victims of scurvy, starvation, and unspeakable suffering.† (source)
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It was the cleanest image of war I had ever seen; even the Air Force, reputedly so high above the infantry's mud, was stained with axle grease by comparison, and the Navy was vulnerable to scurvy.† (source)
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Scurvy was common.† (source)
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Get back, you scurvy braggart!† (source)
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"He's got scurvy," our medic said.† (source)
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I think I have scurvy.† (source)
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You know that was a kind of scurvy trick to play on a sister.† (source)
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No fear of scurvy or ship fever this voyage.† (source)
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The rest of you scurvy bunch o' lubbers'd do well to follow his lead.† (source)
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He looked closely at their eyes for signs of jaundice or scurvy, and checked heads for lice.† (source)
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And I think some words that Ginger has scattered among the Dwarfs are chiefly to blame for the scurvy return they made you.† (source)
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Do you hear them raising their voices about the chain gangs, the slave camps, the fourteen-hour workday and the mortality from scurvy in the People's States of Europe?† (source)
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He had survived pellagra in Persia, scurvy inthe Malayan archipelago, leprosy in Alexandria, beriberi in Japan, bubonic plague in Madagascar, an earthquake in Sicily, and a disastrous shipwreck in the Strait of Magellan.† (source)
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He smiled ingenuously, revealing the gaps in his teeth, the result of a touch of scurvy at Ust-Izhma in 1943.† (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus
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Scurvy riffraff! (source)Scurvy = an old-fashioned word meaning not worth respecting
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Scurvy rascals! (source)
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