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scurvy
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  • It was amazing we'd even made it past grade school without getting scurvy.†   (source)
  • And I think some words that Ginger has scattered among the Dwarfs are chiefly to blame for the scurvy return they made you.†   (source)
  • Men in their ranks were dying of scurvy.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • He looked closely at their eyes for signs of jaundice or scurvy, and checked heads for lice.†   (source)
  • Storms and scurvy managed to destroy or discourage every vessel in this armada except the game little Disgruntled, which showed up off the coast of California about a year later.†   (source)
  • "The scurvy," Nathan interjected, "she means she'd had the scurvy, which was cured as soon as the Russians took over—"†   (source)
  • There's a lot of scurvy about.†   (source)
  • Tuberculosis, pellagra, kwashiorkor, gastro-enteritis, and scurvy bring death and destruction of health.†   (source)
  • The slang term, "limey" to describe someone who is British, arose because of the British navy's use of limes to prevent scurvy.
  • When I was a kid in high school I cut out vitamin C, I got scurvy.†   (source)
  • My Aunt Pauline had given my mother three lemons, worth their weight in gold, as she said it was well known they were good against the scurvy; and these I carefully preserved in case of need.†   (source)
  • Get back, you scurvy braggart!†   (source)
  • They'd been very sour, but he'd forced himself to drink the juice: he was familiar with scurvy from old seafaring movies.†   (source)
  • Midnight came and went while Harry was reading and rereading a passage about the uses of scurvy-grass, lovage and sneezewort and not taking in a word of it.†   (source)
  • "Is not my election to this office in the scurvy manner in which it was done a curse rather than a blessing?" he asked Benjamin Rush in a letter charged with disgust.†   (source)
  • Purchases included quantities of beef, lamb, roasting pig, wild ducks, geese, turtle, and a variety of fresh fish, of which Washington was especially fond; plums, peaches, barrels of cider, brandy and rum by the gallon, and limes by the hundreds, these to fend off scurvy.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Eventually the scurvy would go away.†   (source)
  • I starved and because I starved I had le scorbut—scurvy I think it is in English—and then I had typhus and also la scarlatine.†   (source)
  • What are you waiting for to call a staff meeting and give us a lecture on scurvy and the means of dealing with it?†   (source)
  • For one thing, he discovered that even after all these months she had the residual effects of scurvy.†   (source)
  • About the scurvy.†   (source)
  • Save for his destroyed teeth, he displayed almost none of the symptoms of scurvy—lassitude, weakness, weight loss, and so on—which were predicted under the circumstances.†   (source)
  • You know that was a kind of scurvy trick to play on a sister.†   (source)
  • It was a scurvy trick.†   (source)
  • People are imprisoned for years without trial, or shot in the back of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called ELIMINATION OF UNRELIABLE ELEMENTS.†   (source)
  • But still there's no gettin' 'round it, it was a scurvy trick and if you want to justify the end by the means, it's none of my business and who am I to complain?†   (source)
  • Scurvy trick, hey?†   (source)
  • I'd never hev stood for thet scurvy trick.†   (source)
  • Scurvy trick that 'd been," muttered Bland.†   (source)
  • I near died of the scurvy and was rotten with it six months in Barbadoes.†   (source)
  • No fear of scurvy or ship fever this voyage.†   (source)
  • It had played him a scurvy trick when it fashioned him into the thing he was, and it had played him scurvy tricks ever since.†   (source)
  • But whether this scurvy ruffian be thy father or no, 'tis all one, he shall not have thee to beat thee and abuse, according to his threat, so thou prefer to bide with me.†   (source)
  • The attendants flew to his assistance; but he put them aside, and said— "Trouble me not—it is nothing but a scurvy faintness.†   (source)
  • Hendon followed after him, passed him, and plunged down the stairs two steps at a stride, muttering, " 'tis that scurvy villain that claimed he was his son.†   (source)
  • As I understand it, that was a valid objection urged by Momus against the house which Minerva made, that she "had not made it movable, by which means a bad neighborhood might be avoided"; and it may still be urged, for our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them; and the bad neighborhood to be avoided is our own scurvy selves.†   (source)
  • That dissembling abominable varlet, Diomed, has got that same scurvy, doting, foolish young knave in his helm.†   (source)
  • Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, ran risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy.†   (source)
  • They would shave off her hair, feed her on a scanty allowance of rice, treat her with contempt; she would be looked upon as an unclean creature, and would die in some corner, like a scurvy dog.†   (source)
  • These "majority truths" are like last year's cured meat—like rancid, tainted ham; and they are the origin of the moral scurvy that is rampant in our communities.†   (source)
  • And all cried out upon it for a very scurvy word.†   (source)
  • Well, thou hast a son shall take this disgrace off me; scurvy, old, filthy, scurvy lord!†   (source)
  • Ods precious, this is scurvy, 'tis very scurvy: and you are— MOS: Nay, good, sir.†   (source)
  • Get thee glass eyes; And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.†   (source)
  • ] 'Youth, whatsoever thou art, thou art but a scurvy fellow.'†   (source)
  • I love thee better than I love e'er a scurvy young boy of them all.†   (source)
  • This is a scurvy tune too: but here's my comfort.†   (source)
  • It's another sort of cat they must throw in my face, and not that poor scurvy knave.†   (source)
  • "You are a stupid, scurvy innkeeper," said Don Quixote, and putting spurs to Rocinante and bringing his pike to the slope he rode out of the inn before anyone could stop him, and pushed on some distance without looking to see if his squire was following him.†   (source)
  • Scurvy knave!†   (source)
  • You jack'nape; give-a dis letter to Sir Hugh; by gar, it is a shallenge: I will cut his troat in de Park; and I will teach a scurvy jack-a-nape priest to meddle or make.†   (source)
  • Nay, but he prated, And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms Against your honor, That, with the little godliness I have, I did full hard forbear him.†   (source)
  • But yesternight, my lord, she and that friar, I saw them at the prison: a saucy friar, A very scurvy fellow.†   (source)
  • I shall no more to sea, to sea, Here shall I die a-shore:— This is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man's funeral: Well, here's my comfort.†   (source)
  • I scorn you, scurvy companion.†   (source)
  • He had before served me a scurvy trick, which set the queen alaughing, although at the same time she was heartily vexed, and would have immediately cashiered him, if I had not been so generous as to intercede.†   (source)
  • And here we shall need only to resort to what happened the preceding day, when, hearing from Lady Bellaston that Mr Western was arrived in town, she went to pay her duty to him, at his lodgings at Piccadilly, where she was received with many scurvy compellations too coarse to be repeated, and was even threatened to be kicked out of doors.†   (source)
  • The governor never failed of procuring us two or three goats a day for our sick men; by which, with the help of the greens, and the wholesome air, they recovered very soon of the scurvy; so that Captain Dover and I thought it a very agreeable seat, the weather being neither too hot nor too cold.†   (source)
  • I know him for a man divine and holy; Not scurvy, nor a temporary meddler, As he's reported by this gentleman; And, on my trust, a man that never yet Did, as he vouches, misreport your grace.†   (source)
  • Scurvy knave!†   (source)
  • I cannot go to, man; nor 'tis not very well: nay, I say 'tis very scurvy, and begin to find myself fobbed in it.†   (source)
  • I desire you that we may be friends; and let us knog our prains together to be revenge on this same scall, scurvy, cogging companion, the host of the Garter.†   (source)
  • Mine eyes smell onions; I shall weep anon:— Good Tom Drum [to PAROLLES], lend me a handkercher: so, I thank thee; wait on me home, I'll make sport with thee: let thy courtesies alone, they are scurvy ones.†   (source)
  • A most scurvy monster!†   (source)
  • "Do you think," he said to him after a pause, "you scurvy clown, that you are to be always interfering with me, and that you are to be always offending and I always pardoning?†   (source)
  • —Scurvy jack-dog priest!†   (source)
  • The Moor's abused by some most villainous knave, Some base notorious knave, some scurvy fellow:— O heaven, that such companions thou'dst unfold, And put in every honest hand a whip To lash the rascals naked through the world Even from the east to the west!†   (source)
  • Thou scurvy patch!†   (source)
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